The Cumberland Geologist is the annual journal of the Society, containing original articles, and descriptions of the Society’s field excursions. It is the successor to the original Proceedings, and was first published in 2019. We are in the process of making the contents of past volumes of The Cumberland Geologist available in digital form to the general public. Click each on the links below to expand the contents and view the links to available articles.

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The Cumberland Geologist, Issue 1, 2018 – 2019

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Title	Page
Introduction	1
A Buried Caldera-Collapse Topography, Scafell Caldera, Former Side Pike Complex, Borrowdale Volcanic Group Clive Boulter, David Haselden, and Bryan Woodward	2
Reflections on the discovery of rare gour pools in Shapfell quarry, Hardendale, Cumbria Sylvia Woodhead	9
The Deglaciation of Cumbria: Insights from some Recent Dating Studies Peter Wilson and Alan Smith	14
Reconstructing long-term flood histories for Cumbria Daniel N. Schillereff and Neil Macdonald	22
Rock Climbing Geology in the English Lake District (and surrounding areas) David Bodecott	30
Iron Ore Mines near Bigrigg (NY 002 130) and Moor Row (NY 006 145) Mervyn Dodd	39
Kirkby Moor slate: geology and the quarrymen’s language Jack Soper, Ian Kelly (Quarries Manager, Burlington Stone Ltd.), Clive Boulter	47

Field Research Project Thrust-related folding in the Windermere Supergroup, Gawthwaite Moor	52
Excursion Reports 2018
Exploring the Caldew Valley near Hesket Newmarket	57
Hidden Wonders of Iron Slag	59
The Geological Landscape around Low Rigg	63
The Langdale Caldera – Reassessment of the Side Pike Complex	64
Glaciation of Borrowdale	69
The Geology and Mining History of Scordale	72
Birkhams Quarry, St Bees Head and beach cliffs: 2 Local Geological Sites	73
Harter Fell, Dunnerdale	76
Skiddaw Group Structures in Wythop Woods	80
Threlkeld Knotts-Lavas, Laccolith and Landslips	81
Nenthead	83
Shapfell Quarry, Hardendale: past, present and future	86
A Visit to Whitehaven Harbour for a Building Stones Walk	88
Structures in the Carboniferous around Brough and North Stainmore	89

Lecture Meetings 2018/2020	93
Obituary Tom Shipp 1934-2018	94

The Cumberland Geologist, Issue 2, 2020-2021

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Title	Page
Introduction	1
Mapping the Langdale Caldera Margin	5
A micro-maar fed by a reused volcanotectonic fault, Tail Crag, Duddon Basin, Borrowdale Volcanic Group	14
The Raven’s Crag Tuff, a silicic tuff-ring deposit in the Duddon Basin of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, Dunnerdale Fells	20
History and structure of Skiddaw Group strata around Beck Wythop, west of Bassenthwaite Lake	25
Geological Influences on the Landscape of the Ullswater Valley	30
Lamprophyres: A Short Introduction, with three examples from Cumbria	35
Digital tools for mapping and analysis	43
On the evidence for and against palaeolakes in some Lake District valleys	47
Monitoring the condition of geological SSSIs for Natural England, December 2020 to March 2021	53
Loch Lomond (Younger Dryas) Stadial Glaciation Style at Wolf Crags, Eastern Lake District	58
Sale Fell: Three Interesting Outcrops	67
Newly exposed Carboniferous, and the aesthetics of developments in the Greystoke Gill, Penruddock and Pooley Bridge areas	68
Slump folding in Kirk Stile Formation, Wythop Woods	71
Langdale Caldera & Scafell Caldera Margin	72
An Evening around Pooley Bridge	76
Causey Pike	77
Watch Hill Formation and Intrusions, Cockermouth	79
Fell End Clouds	80
Close Quarry, Embleton	82
Lecture Meetings 2020/2022	84
Obituaries	85

The Cumberland Geologist, Issue 3

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Title	Page
The Cumberland Geologist 3 Introduction	1
New Observations of Impact Sags in the Borrowdale Volcanic Group Ballistic and Otherwise	2
Spaced Cleavage in Cumbria Tilberthwaite Formation BVG	7
The Story in a Slate Sedimentary Structures in Tilberthwaite Formation Turbidites	12
Structural observations in Skiddaw Group strata in Wythop Woods	17
Skiddaw Group at Peil Peel Wyke Bassenthwaite Lake interpreting a complex exposure	21
Is the Geology of West Cumbria suitable for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste	25
Exposure-age dating of rock avalanche debris at Raven Crag (Pasture Beck valley, Hartsop) using cosmogenic	31
Some observations on the geology of Slate Fell, Cockermouth	36
Exposures of Brockram at Rougholme Point, South Cumbria	40
The Armathwaite Dyke	44
Using LiDAR to investigate geological structure, Watch Hill, Cockermouth	51
Field Trip to Anglesey	56
Tail Crag Maar-Diatreme, Duddon Basin, Borrowdale Volcanic Group	60
Glacial deposits on the southwest coast of Cumbria	62
Keswick Building Stones Walk	65
Swindale Head	69
Sale Fell: Skiddaw Group structures and an intrusion	72
Armathwaite Dyke and Penrith Sandstone	74
Lecture Meetings 2022/23	76
Obituaries	77