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| Contents | |
| Editor’s Notes | 4 |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLES | 5 |
| White Limestone deposition in north-west Cumbria, A. D. Thurlow | 5 |
| Cumbria Rigs Group, M. Dodd | 35 |
| Book Review – The structure and evolution of the Northumberland-Solway Basin and adjacent areas, E. Skipsey | 41 |
| Alluvial fans in the Buttermere-Crummock Valley, Dr A. Smith | 47 |
| EXCURSION NOTES | 63 |
| Sedimentary variations in the Fifth to White Limestones – A. Thurlow | 63 |
| The graptolites of Dobb’s.Linn – Dr. E. N. Clarkson & C. Taylor | 67 |
| The Skiddaw Group above Loweswater – M. Dodd | 69 |
| Silurian and Carboniferous rocks in the Langholm area – I. Gray | 70 |
| Upper Carboniferous of the Cockermouth area – M. Boland | 73 |
| Carboniferous Limestone exposures along the Dalton-in-Furness by-pass – D. Leviston | 75 |
| The St Bees Sandstone at Hawcoat Quarry – B. Neil | 77 |
| The Windermere Group in the Troutbeck area – Dr A. Bell | 80 |
| Glacial sediments around St Bees – J. Merritt | 82 |
| Mineral deposits of the Coniston Coppermines Valley – B. Young | 84 |
| Geology from the Cycleway – M. Dodd | 87 |
| Glacial landforms of the Western Pennines – Dr W.Mitchell | 89 |
| The Latterbarrow Sandstone – D. Kelly | 91 |
| The Geology of the Vale of Eden – E. Skipsey & Dr S.Munro | 94 |
| Ashfell Edge – A. Day | 99 |
| List of other excursions held in 1994 – 1995 | 101 |
| LECTURE NOTES | |
| The geology and scenery of north-west Scotland – Joe Crossley | 103 |
| Geological aspects of the A66 trunk road improvement – David O’Farrell | 106 |
| The recent geological investigations around the Sellafield area – Dr Bob Chaplow | 108 |
| Current thoughts on the Coal Measures in Cumbria – Dennis Dickins | 112 |
| Plate tectonics, volcanic islands & pygmy elephants – Dr Martyn Pedley | 114 |
| Quaternary landforms of Upper Edenside – Dr Wishart Mitchell | 118 |
| The glaciation of the northern Pennines – Dr Angus Lunn | 120 |
| Holes in the ground – Ian Williamson | 125 |
| Geological mapping and prospecting from space – Dr John Moore | 126 |
| Problems in the reconstruction of past climates – Margaret Fox | 130 |
| Palaeokarst, pits and problems – Dr Peter Vincent | 134 |
| Progress of survey mapping in West Cumbria – Mike McCormac | 136 |
| ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS – 1995 & 1996 | 139 |
| ANNUAL DINNERS – 1994 & 1995 | 139 |
| OBITUARIES | 140 |
| SOCIETY BEQUESTS | 142 |
| LIST OF SOCIETY OFFICERS AND COUNCIL – 1995 & 1996 | 143 |
