Wednesday, 10 December, 2025 starts at 19:30
Crosthwaite Parish Rooms
Main Street
Keswick
CA12 5NN
Emeritus Professor Ben Kneller (Aberdeen University) will give a talk “The Windermere Supergroup: what does it tell us about the evolution of Avalonia”
This will be followed by an opportunity to socialise for the members’ evening.
The trip will be led by Jonathan Redfern, Chair of Petroleum Geoscience at University of Manchester.
Thursday 7th May: Arrive Scarborough (Bike and Boot suggested hotel). Visit to Rotunda Museum, Wiliam Smith and other collections in afternoon (3pm)
Friday 8th May: Morning: Drive to Staithes, morning Staithes Group shallow marine sandstones – Lunch in Staithes. Â Afternoon: Â Cleveland Ironstone (HT 8.36 am LT 3.01pm)
Saturday  9th May:  Morning: Drive to Whitby, examine Whitby Sandstone on East and West Cliff.  Fish and Chips lunch in Whitby
Pm: Drive to Cloughton, Long Nab Formation, fluvial meander belts. (HT 9.28 am LT 4.02pm)
Sunday 10th May: Morning :drive to Flamborough Head. Examine Cretaceous Chalk Group. Regional tectonics and faulting. (HT 12.46)
Lunch
Depart home after lunch pm
The trip will cost £40 per individual (to cover the leader’s costs), payable on booking, plus individual accommodation costs.
We will be staying in the Bike and Boot hotel, Scarborough from Thursday night through to Saturday evening. There is a choice of room type available for the 3 nights, with prices for the 3 nights, including breakfast.
Single room £241.50
Single room with view £301.50
Double room (2 people) per room £298.20
Double room with view (2 people) per room £339.00.
It is hoped that we will all eat together in the hotel in the evenings. A copy of the menu can be found on their website. www.Bikeandboot.com
If interested please contact Lesley Wornham, CGS, on email hidden; JavaScript is required or 07788781463 (text) by the end of November, indicating the type of room you require.
The trip will be on a first come first served basis. After the end of November, I will let you know whether you are on the trip and provide details of how to secure your place by payment of £40. I will also be able to let you know how to secure your hotel room from the rooms I am holding.
These proceedings ran from 1962 to 2019 before being replaced by our newest publication The Cumberland Geologist. Each Proceedings has been digitized and made searchable.
| EDITORIAL | 354 |
| Records of the use of Egglestone marble in Cumbria | 355 |
| The many uses of Shap Granite | 365 |
| The Seathwaite Graphite Mine | 371 |
| Dr Richard Peter Kelvin Clark (1927-2009) An Appreciation | 381 |
| The Raasay iron mines | 389 |
| The society trip to Raasay | 395 |
| Excursion Reports 2008 | 401 |
| Excursion Reports 2009 | 409 |
| Obituary Notice | 423 |
| Lecture Meetings | 425 |
| Annual General Meetings | 428 |
| Annual Dinners | 429 |
| List of Society Officers and Council | 430 |
These proceedings ran from 1962 to 2019 before being replaced by our newest publication The Cumberland Geologist. Each Proceedings has been digitized and made searchable.
| EDITOR’S NOTES | 145 |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLES | 146 |
| Multum ex parvo: graptolites from Threlkeld Quarry and their implications, DrA. W. A. Rushton | 146 |
| The fossils collected during John Bolton’s marathon search at Rosside, Dr A. W. A. Rushton and Dr P. Shepherd. | 154 |
| On identifying frontal positions of Lake District valley glaciers, Dr R. P. K. Clark | 162 |
| FIELDWORK REPORTS | 177 |
| The Geology of the Northern Marginal Zone complex on the isle of Rum, 177 Scotland, Edward Loffill | 177 |
| Late Devensian outwash environments in the Tyne Valley: Preliminary investigations., Lynda Yorke | 179 |
| Biological responses and environmental change across the Carboniferous boundary, Rejmyrefjellet, Templefjorden, Svarlbard, Tom Chailands. | 184 |
| EXCURSION REPORTS 2004 | 190 |
| Chalk Beck Quarries, East Curthwaite, David Powell | 190 |
| Sale Fell: minette intrusion and Skiddaw Group, David Livesey | 192 |
| The Coal Measures south of Whitehaven Harbour, David Kelly and John Brown | 193 |
| The submerged forest on Allonby beach, Fred Lawton | 194 |
| The Namurian rocks and mineralisation around Alston, Dr Charlotte Vye and Dr Stu Clarke | 195 |
| Force Crag Mine, Coledale, Penny Webb | 199 |
| The Borrowdale Volcanics of upper Wasdale and lllgill Head, Dr Alan Smith | 207 |
| The Howk, Caldbeck, Anne Freeland and Susan Beale | 211 |
| EXCURSIONS REPORTS 2005 | 212 |
| The Borrowdale Volcanic Group at Water Crag, Wastwater, David Kelly | 212 |
| Fossil hunt at White Horse, Broad End, Skiddaw Massif, Dr Alan Smith | 213 |
| North Pennine Carboniferous at Hallbankgate and the Great Whin Sill quarry at Midgeholme, Judy Suddaby | 229 |
| Skiddaw Group geology, Dr Adrian Rushton | 230 |
| Raise Beck, Dunmail Raise, Dr Richard Johnson | 231 |
| Geology of the Kirkbeck Valley, Mervyn Dodd and Michael Forsdyke | 233 |
| Mineralisation in the Caldbeck Fells, Brian Young | 236 |
| Geology of the northern part of High Rigg, Dr Alan Smith | 237 |
| Other excursion held in 2005 | 238 |
| LECTURE REPORTS 2004 – 2005 | 239 |
| Remote sensing and fieldwork on active volcanoes, Professor Harry Pinkerton | 239 |
| The Burgess Shale fauna: new light on theories of evolution, Professor Simon Conway Morris | 241 |
| Other lectures held in 2004 – 2005 | 242 |
These proceedings ran from 1962 to 2019 before being replaced by our newest publication The Cumberland Geologist. Each Proceedings has been digitized and made searchable.
| EDITOR’S NOTES | 5 |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLES | 6 |
| A message from the Labyrinth, Trinity Gardens, Whitehaven, Dr E. Robinson | 6 |
| Rock slope failure in the Lake District: a preliminary report of ongoing research, Dr P. Wilson, Dr R. P. K. Clark and Dr R. A. Smith | 13 |
| How old is the Lake District landscape? Dr R. P. K. Clark | 37 |
| The distinctiveness of the southern Lake District landscape, Dr R. P. K. Clark | 46 |
| EXCURSION REPORTS 2002 | 58 |
| Geology of the area around Nethertown, David Kelly | 58 |
| Geology of Dodd Wood, Dr Alan Smith | 59 |
| Silurian and Carboniferous rocks of the Langholm area, Iver Gray | 62 |
| The geology of Bowness Point, Mervyn Dodd | 64 |
| The Quaternary deposits of the Furness Peninsula, Derek Leviston | 66 |
| Silurian rocks south of Torver, David Kell | 70 |
| Rocks and scenery of the Nannycatch Gorge, David Livesey | 71 |
| Other excursion held in 2002 | 72 |
| EXCURSIONS REPORTS 2003 | 73 |
| The lower Borrowdale Volcanic Group succession on Falcon Crag and Brown Knotts, Dr Alan Smith | 73 |
| Mousegill Quarry near Wilton, Egremont, Mervyn Dodd | 78 |
| Permian brockrams and sandstones in the Eden valley, Dr Gordon Taylor | 82 |
| Upper Wasdale, David Livesey | 83 |
| List of other excursions held in 2003 | 84 |
| LECTURE REPORTS 2002 – 2003 | 85 |
| History of women in geology, Dr Cynthia Burek | 85 |
| Cyprus: life at the edge, Dr Trevor Morse | 86 |
| Life: an unauthorised biography, Prof Richard Fortey | 89 |
| A geologist in the Canadian Rockies, Derek Leviston | 91 |
| Volcanoes in the landscape, Dr Alan Smith | 101 |
| The Coniston copper mines, Nigel Courtman | 103 |
| James Hutton: founder of modern geology, Norman Butcher | 105 |
| LECTURE REPORTS 2003 – 2004 | 107 |
| Hydrocarbon recovery, Dr Jim Riding | 107 |
| Early mining in the Lake District, David Bridge | 109 |
| The Iceland Excursion, Nigel Courtman | 111 |
| The geology of the Canary Islands, Dr Alan Smith | 113 |
| West Cumbrian vernacular architecture, David Grech | 115 |
| Skiddaw Slates – fossils, facts and fallacies, Dr Adrian Rushton | 116 |
| Other lecture held in 2003 – 2004 | 120 |
| REVIEWS | 121 |
| NOTE ON THE NETHERTOWN SEA DEFENCES | 128 |
| OBITUARY NOTICES | 130 |
| ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS | 131 |
| ANNUAL DINNERS | 132 |
| THE SOCIETY SMALL AWARDS FOR STUDENTS | 133 |
| LIST OF SOCIETY OFFICERS AND COUNCIL – 2003 and 2004 | 134 |
These proceedings ran from 1962 to 2019 before being replaced by our newest publication The Cumberland Geologist. Each Proceedings has been digitized and made searchable.
| EDITOR’S NOTES | 484 |
| A thermal contraction crack in bedrock at Braithwaite, Cumbria D. K. Farrow, M. G. Burnley, S. P. Oxford and A. Palmer | 485 |
| Garrigill: evidence of global warming, ancient and modern, Dr B. Webb | 497 |
| Building and decorative stones in Whitehaven, M. Fox | 505 |
| The building stones of Penrith and district, E. Skipsey | 511 |
| The Bowder Stone, Grange-in-Borrowdale, Cumbria, Dr R. A. Smith | 525 |
| On the genesis of shear-zone-hosted gold mineralisation in south Eastern Desert, Egypt, Dr W. E. G. Taylor & Dr Y. A. El Kazzaz | 540 |
| The Solway region in the late Pleistocene, Dr R. P. K. Clark | 553 |
| EXCURSION REPORTS | 587 |
| Borrowdale Volcanic Group rocks in Cat Gill in the footsteps of James Clifton Ward, Dr R. A. Smith | 587 |
| The Furness of John Bolton: Lindal, Plumpton, Gleaston and Stank, D. A. Kelly | 588 |
| Thomas Hay: Glenridding, Dr R. P. K. Clark and Dr R. A. Smith | 591 |
| Watch Hill and Elva Plain through the eyes of Tom Eastwood, D. Dickins | 593 |
| In Charles Edmonds’ Day: Longlands and Clints, M. B. Dodd | 596 |
| The Carboniferous limestones of Yewbarrow and Beck Head, Dr I. Burgess | 598 |
| List of other excursions held in 2000 | 602 |
| EXCURSIONS 2001 | 603 |
| LECTURE REPORTS 2000 – 2001 | 604 |
| Eruptions on the volcanic island of Montserrat: monitoring and understanding an explosive volcano, Dr S. Loughlin | 604 |
| A tale of two volcanoes: Mount St Helens and Kilauae, Dr R. A. Smith | 606 |
| Limestone pavements in Cumbria – their origin and conservation , S. Webb | 608 |
| Other lectures | 610 |
| LECTURE REPORTS 2001 – 2002 | 611 |
| Dry stone walls, Dr E. Robinson | 611 |
| Volcanic eruptions under Iceland’s glaciers, H. Tuffen | 612 |
| Rivers, landforms and man – a system in equilibrium?, Dr S. Bradley | 614 |
| Mam Tor, C. Arkwright | 616 |
| The ice age in Lakeland, Dr R. A. Smith | 620 |
| A geologist in the Andes of Ecuador, Dr R. Hughes | 622 |
| Annual General Meetings | 624 |
| Annual Dinners | 625 |
| The Society Small Awards for Students | 626 |
| Obituaries | 627 |
