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Proceedings 1982-83 Part 3

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Editor’s NotePage 236
A Volcanic Vent at Colt Crag, near Coniston, Cumbria, Watson237
The Philosophy of Stream Sediment Exploration and
Indications of Mineralisation from a Stream Sediment
Survey in the Western Lake District, Buckley		245
Classification, Age and Origin of the Cumbrian
Hematite, Dunham		259
Siderite from the West Cumbrian Hematite Deposits, Young267
Geology and History of Nab Gill Mine, Eskdale, Cumbria, Young269
Deglaciation Features North and South of Ennerdale277
Excursion to Borrowdale and Langstrath278
Visits to the Anhydrite Mine, Whitehaven281
Excursion to the Threlkeld Micro-granite282
Excursion to Drygill and Driggeth Mines283
The Carboniferous Succession around the Levens Estuary284
Geology from ‘La’al Ratty’287
Excursion to Gilsland Area289
Geology of the Eastern Fells around Renwick291
Excursion to Pica Opencast Coal Site294
Visit to Florence Mine, Egremont296
Excursion to the Little Knott Picrite297
Excursion to Dobb’s Linn298
Excursion to the Duddon Valley301
Carboniferous Limestone of Blackstone Point, Arnside303
The Carboniferous Limestone of Yewbarrow and Whitbarrow306
The Rocks of the Eden Valley308
Excursion to the Three Shires Stone309
The West Cumberland Hematite Ore Field311
A Modern Look at the Geology of the Lake District318
The Science of Gemstones320
A History of Coal Mining in West Cumbria321
Trace Fossils323
Landslides, Subsidence and Other Forms of Earth Movement325
Antarctica and the Gondwana Jigsaw327
First Impressions of the Geology of Iceland329
The Calculation and Estimation of Oil and Gas Reserves333
Silurian Geology and Fauna in Scotland335
Coal and Coal-bearing Rocks: How long to form them?337
TOURIST REPORT: The Auvergne340
TOURIST REPORT: Malta’s Stratigraphy341
ANNUAL DINNERS: 23rd April, 1982 & 22nd April 1983342
22nd and 23rd Annal General Meetings344
ADDRESSES OF OFFICERS353
LIST OF SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS354
NOTICES356
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Mineral display October 2023

SUNDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2023

FROM 12.30 PM TO 6.00 PM

Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society (CATMHS)
Mineral Display


Members of the Society are hosting a mineral display in the Wesley room at Ambleside Parish Centre. This is a rare opportunity to see beautiful specimens collected mainly from mines in Cumbria and Weardale, one of areas traditional industries which helped shape it as it is today. There is the opportunity to discuss, understand minerals and their formation.
Entry free with Tea & Coffee provided. Donations welcome in aid of Ambleside Parish Centre

Anyone is welcome to bring along their material specimens along to show and have them photographed.

Linarite – Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck
Fluorite – Rogerley Mine, Weardale
Calcite – Florence Mine, Egremont
Barytes – Force Crag Mine, Keswick
Galena & Dolomite – Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead
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Event Reminder: Deformed Dirt: research on the deformation caused by glaciers and ice sheet

Wednesday 20th September 2023
Time: 19.30hrs
Friends’ Meeting House, Elliot Park, Keswick. CA12 5NZ.
Prof Emrys Phillips PhD, MSc, CGeol FGS, FRGS
Deformed Dirt: research on the deformation caused by glaciers and ice sheets

The deformation caused by glaciers and ice sheets, known as glacitectonics, produces folding and faulting structures similar to those found in orogenic mountain belts but on a smaller scale and shorter time scales. The lecture will include a brief history of glacitectonic research, examples from around the world of the range of landforms and features formed as a result of glacitectonism and discuss why understanding these glacial deformation processes are so important.

Professor Phillips will be known to many members as he has given talks and led field trips for us. He is Individual Merit Research Scientist (Quaternary/glacial sciences) at BGS and Honorary Professor, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society at Heriot Watt University
 
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Event Reminder: Burtness Comb rock slope failure (Lateglacial rock avalanche)

Start: 10.00am at the cash pay-and-display car park at NY 195150, opposite Gatesgarth Farm (Buttermere). You will need about four £1 coins to pay.

Dr Peter Wilson, Ulster University

Itinerary: Initially a flat valley-floor walk of c.1 km from Gatesgarth Farm to Horse Close alongside Buttermere. Then a steep grassy slope up into Burtness Comb (c. 1 km and c. 400 m ascent). Once in the Comb the terrain becomes increasingly bouldery. The nature and source of the rock avalanche debris will be discussed and recently obtained surface exposure ages will be presented. Other features of geomorphological interest will also be discussed.

The rock avalanche is described in the following papers:

Clark, R. & Wilson, P. 2004. A rock avalanche deposit in Burtness Comb, Lake District, northwest England. Geological Journal 39, 419-430.

Wilson, P. & Jarman, D. 2013. The Burtness Comb rock avalanche, English Lake District: a rare case of rock slope failure – glacier interaction. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 124, 477-483.

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Proceedings 1979-81 Part 2

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Drumlins at Watendlath, P.WilsonPage 105
Further Vertebrate Footprints from the Lower Permian
Sandstones of Cumbria, W. A. S. Sarjeant		111
Glacial Geomorphology of the Keswick Area, Northern
Cumbria, J. Boardman		115
Excursion to Thornthwaite Forest. Skiddavian Turbidites135
Palaeozoic Rocks of the Orton Area138
The Lower Carboniferous Limestones of Furness140
Carboniferous Limestone Quarries in the Frizington Kirkland Area143
The Elterwater Slate Quarry144
Stockhow Hall Limestone Quarry145
Excursion to the Buttermere Valley146
The Faulted Outlier at Mousegill Quarry, Wilton,
near Egremont		147
The Ordovician Inlier of Taythes Beck (Cautley area,
near Sedbergh)		147
The Mell Fell Conglomerate152
The Watch Hill Grit and the Igneous Rocks of the
Embleton area		153
The Rocks of the Langholm area156
Excursion to Carrock Fell and Brandy Gill157
Mines of the Newlands Valley160
The Granite in Wasdale161
The Scilly Banks Opencast Coal Site163
Rocks and Features of the Upper Calder Valley165
Excursion to Edinburgh167
Other Excursions and Short Evening Excursions168
Early Palaeozoic Shelf Sediments in Prince of Wales
and Somerset Islands, Arctic Canada		169
The Persistence of Man171
Dam Geology173
British Carboniferous Volcanoes and their Origins175
The Stratigraphy of the Yorkshire Dales177
The Mineralisation of the Pennines179
The Geology of North Cumbria and the Borders182
Earthquake Activity in Northern Britain184
The British Antarctic Survey186
The Geological Record of Pleistocene Climatic Changes187
Geology and Ancient Man189
The Late-glacial Period (15,000 – 10,000 years ago)191
The Cambrian Geology of the Northern Interior Plains
of Canada		194
The Morphology of an Active Plate Boundary196
Geology and Wine198
A Practical Approach to Geological Field Work201
NOTES ON GASTRIOCERAS CUMBRIENSE203
ANNUAL DINNERS: 25th April, 1980 and 9th May, 1981206
19th, 20th and 21st ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS212
A NEW PUBLICATION – LAKE DISTRICT GUIDE227
LIST OF SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS228
NOTICES230