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Summer Event List 2022 Published

Our excursion Secretary has published the list of events for Summer 2022. Please visit the Events page for more detail.

If you are interested in organizing or leading an event please contact us.

Location – Date – Start time

Tail Crag Volcanotechtonic Fault, South of Caw –  30th April 2022 – 10:30

Glacial Effects on SW Coast, Cumbria SW Coast –  5th June 2022 – 10:30

Keswick Building Stones –  15th June 2022 – 18:00

Corrie Glacier or Plateau Ice Cap, Swindale Head –  2nd July 2022 – 10:30

Sale Fell –  13th July 2022 – 18:30

Irthing Gorge Lower Carboniferous –  6th August 2022 – 10:30

Armathwaite Dyke Plus Nearby Geology –  11th September 2022 – 10:30

High Rigg –  28th September 2022 – 18:00

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Proceedings 1963 Part 2

Proceedings can be viewed in the Members Area here. If you are not a member and would like to request a copy of the proceedings or a particular article, please contact the website admin.

Contents

List of MembersPage 1
Editorial3
Jonathan Otley5
Discovery and Development of the Old Mines of the Lake District9
Excursion to the Quartz Felsite Dyke of the Eskdale Granite, 16th June11
Excursion to a Glacial Overflow System South of Ennerdale, 14th July14
Camping Weekend in the Caldew Valley, 26th-28th July18
Excursion to the Carrock Fell Gabbro, 28th July19
Excursion to the Furness District od Lancashire, 15th September23
The Iron Ore Sops of Furness28
Granites and Orogeny, Dr. J. R. Harpum30
Investigating Fossil Plants, Dr. D. L. Smith32
Book Review: Portrait of the Lakes, Norman Nicholson34
Book Review: The Chemical Elements in Nature, Dr. F. H. Day35
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Proceedings 1963 Part 1

Proceedings can be viewed in the Members Area here. If you are not a member and would like to request a copy of the proceedings or a particular article, please contact the website admin.

Contents

EditorialPage 1
The Annual Dinner, 4th January3
The Annual General Meeting, 10th January3
Presidential Address “On the Age of the Earth”, 14th February5
Visit to Barrowmouth, 16th March19
Visit to Marchon Anhydrite Mine, 25th March19
Visit to First Limestone, Brigham, 31st March23
Field Excursion to Goldscope Mine, Newlands, 7th April25
Brief Reports of Other Activities28
The Origin of the Earth and Chemical Element29
Superficial Investigations of the Borrowdale Plumbage Mines34
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Proceedings 1962 Part 2

Proceedings can be viewed in the Members Area here. If you are not a member and would like to request a copy of the proceedings or a particular article, please contact the website admin.

Contents

Excursion to the Lias Deposists near Wigton, and to the Drygill Shales at the head of Carrock Beck, 3rd JunePage 1
Excursion to the Buttermere & Ennerdale Granophyrs, 1st July3
Making Petrological Microscope Slides7
Weekend Excursion to Ambleside & Coniston, 14th-16th September10
Lecture on Mineralogy by R. H. Hewitt, 27th September15
Lecture on Chemical Natural History by Dr. F. H. Day, 22nd November17
Visit to Whitehaven Brickworks Quarry, 25th November, and to Haig Colliery, Whitehaven, 26th November19
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Proceedings 1962 Part 1

Proceedings can be viewed in the Members Area here. If you are not a member and would like to request a copy of the proceedings or a particular article, please contact the website admin.

Contents

Presidential Address ‘Granite and Granitization’ (delivered by the Vice President at Workington College), 15th FebruaryPage 1
Excursion to the Haile Moor Mine, Egremont, 22nd January17
Excursion to Ullcoats Mine, Egremont, 23rd February19
Outing to St Bees and Fleswick, 17th March21
Sketch Map and Outline on the Skiddaw Granite, 1st April23
Excursion to the Skiddaw Granite, 1st April24
Excursion to the Nowlands Valley, 20th May27
Field Excursion to Yeatouse Limestone Quarry, 14th April31