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Any member can attend any event and places are filled on a first come, first served basis.  Non members are also welcome to attend events, but members will be given priority if places are short.
 
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Location: Milton Keynes UK
Event Title:Atlantic Ocean Drilling - Jason Harvey
Date:Sep 02, 2010
Event Type:Evening Talk   (organising Branch: wha)
Summary:
Walton Hall, Seminar Room, Gass Building
Jason Harvey of the Open University will talk to us about his experiences working for the Ocean Drilling Programme.
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Location: Isle of Wight 
Event Title:Weekend Field Trip to Isle of Wight
Date:Sep 03, 2010 - Sep 05, 2010
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: sea)
Summary:
Leader: Trevor Price
Community Learning Officer, The Dinosaur Isle Museum
 
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Location: Southern Uplands Scotland
Event Title:Loch Doon Granite
Date:Sep 04, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: wsc)
Summary:

We will be looking at the northern margin of the Loch Doon granite with Jim Floyd. Details still to be finalised.

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Location: Sussex 
Event Title:Geowalk in the Vale of Fernhurst led by Brian Harvey
Date:Sep 12, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: lon)
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Location: Lancashire England
Event Title:Rochdale Cemetary (Manchester RIGS) and Oldham Building Stones
Date:Sep 12, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: nwe)
Summary:Low mobility trip to examine geological specimens in Rochdale Cemetary (morning with Norma Rothwell) and to study Oldham Building Stones (afternoon with Stephen Darlington). 
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Location: South Wales Wales
Event Title: Black Mountain, Western Massif of the Beacons Geraint Owen
Date:Sep 12, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: ssi)
Summary:Meet at the Black Mountain Centre at 10.30. It is located in the old school at the mini-roundabout in Brynamman (SN 7140 1430).
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Location: Devon UK
Event Title:Haytor Granite, Dartmoor, Moorland to Sea
Date:Sep 12, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: swe)
Summary:

Day trip following the path of the granite from Haytor Quarry along the tramway through Yarner Wood.

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Location: London 
Event Title:Geological evolution of the Thames by Andrew Newell
Date:Sep 16, 2010
Event Type:Evening Talk   (organising Branch: lon)
Summary:Ten things you did not know about the geological evolution of the Thames by Andrew Newell
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Location: Warwickshire UK
Event Title:Geology around Leamington Spa, in Warwickshire
Date:Sep 17, 2010 - Sep 19, 2010
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: wha)
Summary:Trip Leader Martyn Bradley.  Staying at the Park House Guest House, Warwick. Trip in planning.  Details to follow.  Booking Form to follow. 
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Location:  Dorset 
Event Title:RIGS maintenance at Todber
Date:Sep 19, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: wsx)
Summary:

A Dorset RIGS,

Bird`s Quarry, Todber, Dorset.  The leader will be Alan Holiday.
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Location: Reading 
Event Title:Marie Stopes: Lies, Sex and Fossil Plants
Date:Sep 21, 2010
Event Type:Evening Talk   (organising Branch: oxf)
Summary:
We are delighted to welcome Dr Howard Falcon-Lang, Royal Holloway University of London with his intriguing titled presentation to mark our John Souster Memorial Lecture.
 
Please note doors open 19:30 for lecture start PROMPTLY at 20:00.
Location is the Ground Floor of the of the Chemistry Building on the Whiteknights Campus of Reading University, enter by the Pepper Lane entrance.
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Location: Suffolk UK
Event Title:Orford Trip
Date:Sep 26, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: ean)
Summary:

Trip to Orford and nearby SSSIs led by Bob Markham

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Location: Derbyshire 
Event Title:In search of Venerable Vulcanicity around Chelmorton
Date:Sep 26, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: emi)
Summary:This 3 mile walk around Calton Hill will look at lavas, dolerite sills and vent material intruded into Dinantian Limestones.  There will also be examples of faults, inception horizons and bronze age burial mounds.
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Location: Birmingham 
Event Title:OUGS Committee meeting
Date:Oct 02, 2010
Event Type:OUGS Committee Meeting   (organising Branch: ouc)
Summary:The next OUGS Committee Meeting is on the 2nd October at Birmingham University - in the Student Union Building. 10.00 am for a 10.30 am start.
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Location: West Sussex 
Event Title:The Trundle, the Weald and the Downland Museum
Date:Oct 03, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: wsx)
Summary:
Leader - David Bone
The geology of the West Sussex coastal plain and the building stones in the open-air museum
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Location: Milton Keynes UK
Event Title:Meteorites, molecules and minerals by Dr Victoria Pearson
Date:Oct 07, 2010
Event Type:Evening Talk   (organising Branch: wha)
Summary:
Walton Hall, Seminar Room, Gass Building
Analysis of meteorites and other extraterrestrial objects can give us insight into the evolution of our Solar System and beyond - by Dr Victoria Pearson, The Open University
 
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Location: West Yorkshire 
Event Title:National Coal Mining Museum - NOW CANCELLED
Date:Oct 09, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: emi)
Summary:

Unfortunately, it has been necessary to cancel this trip.

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Location: Milton Keynes UK
Event Title:Open Day - 4 Decades Earth and Planetary Sciences
Date:Oct 09, 2010 - Oct 09, 2010
Event Type:Day of Talks   (organising Branch: wha)
Summary:Open Day at the Open University, Milton Keynes to celebrate 40 years of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
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Location: Sussex 
Event Title:Weald and Downland Open Air Museum led Diana Smith
Date:Oct 17, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: lon)
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Location: Cheshire/N Wales England
Event Title:Geoconservation around Holt & Farndon with Prof Cynthia Burek
Date:Oct 17, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: nwe)
Summary:
The aim of this trip is to find out about geoconservation issues around Farndon and Holt (Cynthia Burek is Professor of Geoconservation at the University of Chester).
 
 
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Location: Pett Level, Sussex UK
Event Title:Pett Level - rearranged after cancellation earlier this year
Date:Oct 17, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: sea)
Summary:This had to be cancelled earlier in the year but we have now been able to rearrange it.  Leader - Dave Talbot. Come with the OUGS South East on a visit to Pett Level. See a potpourri of sediments, faults, igneous rocks, footrints and even a 18th Century source of iron.
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Location: Forest of Dean England
Event Title:Looking at mineralization in the Forest with Tom Cotterell
Date:Oct 17, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: ssi)
Summary:
Meet at 10.30 at New Fancy View car park.
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Location: Swaledale North Yorkshire 
Event Title:Exploration of Upper Swaledale
Date:Oct 17, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: yor)
Summary:The trip will explore the area of Upper Swaledale to the East of Kisdon Hill, visiting Crackpot Hall, Swinner Gill, Mucker and if conditions permit Kisdon Falls.
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Location: London 
Event Title:Reconstructuring Climate Change in Quaternary Arctic Russia by Angela Self
Date:Oct 21, 2010
Event Type:Evening Talk   (organising Branch: lon)
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Location: Moffat Scotland
Event Title:The Geology of the Southern Uplands
Date:Oct 22, 2010 - Oct 24, 2010
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: nor)
Summary:

NORTHUMBRIA OUGS

POST EXAM WEEKEND

Staying at the Moffat House Hotel

Moffat

Scotland

22-24th October 2010

WITH PROFESSOR EUAN CLARKSON

Examining the geology of the southern uplands

Costs

Single room £130 b&b

Double room £100 b&b

Twin room £100 b&b

Optional group meal

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Location: Cumbria UK
Event Title:West of Scotland post-exam weekend to Keswick. Lake District
Date:Oct 23, 2010 - Oct 24, 2010
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: wsc)
Summary:
Based in Keswick, going to Borrowdale on Saturday and Sinean Gill on Sunday. Trip leader is Dr Andrew Bell.
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Location: Bavaria Germany
Event Title:Bohemian Massif, Variscan basement, and more!
Date:Oct 24, 2010 - Oct 31, 2010
Event Type:Longer Trip   (organising Branch: eur)
Summary:

Preliminary Programme for the OUGSME Post-exam Field Trip to Bavaria and Western Bohemia

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Location: Surrey 
Event Title:Bargates of Guildford & Godalming
Date:Oct 24, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: oxf)
Summary:

Dr Graham Williams leads a trip to visit Surrey's hidden coastline - the Bargate formation, within the Lower Greensand Group! What does the Bargate Formation tell us about global processes during Aptian and Albian times?

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Location: Fuerteventura Spain
Event Title:Alternative trip due to cancellation of trip to West Virginia
Date:Oct 27, 2010 - Nov 03, 2010
Event Type:Longer Trip   (organising Branch: ssi)
Summary:This will be a ‘self-led’ trip, facilitated by Linda Fowler and based on itineraries in Carracedo & Day’s ‘Canarian Volcanoes’.Self drive cars; self-catering accommodation in Caleta de Fuste Fly direct from UK Cost i.r.o. £200 for 7 days, plus flight.
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Location: Norfolk 
Event Title:North Norfolk led by Jill Eyers
Date:Oct 29, 2010 - Oct 31, 2010
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: lon)
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Location: Dorset UK
Event Title:Post Exam Weekend in Charmouth
Date:Oct 29, 2010 - Oct 31, 2010
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: wmi)
Summary:

Cancelled

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Location: East Lothian Scotland
Event Title:North Berwick with David McAdam and Fiona McGibbon
Date:Oct 30, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: esc)
Summary:North Berwick Harbour and North Berwick Law with David McAdam and Fiona McGibbon - Saturday 30th October 10am
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Location: Milton Keynes UK
Event Title:To Be Announced
Date:Nov 04, 2010
Event Type:Evening Talk   (organising Branch: wha)
Summary:Walton Hall, Seminar Room, Gass Building
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Location: Arizona USA
Event Title:Geology of Northern Arizona and southern Colorado Plateau
Date:Nov 04, 2010 - Nov 13, 2010
Event Type:Longer Trip   (organising Branch: wsx)
Summary:Discover the development of the Colorado Plateau and the evolution of the Grand Canyon.  Explore 1.8 billion Years of geology.  Study the 'textbook examples'.  The 'eye of faith' is not needed.  Get a taste at http://vimeo.com/8745084Waiting list only now I'm afraid.
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Location: Shropshire 
Event Title:Snowflake weekend trip to the Church Stretton area
Date:Nov 05, 2010 - Nov 07, 2010
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: emi)
Summary:This weekend trip will explore the area around Church Stretton and will include overnight accommodation on Friday and Saturday night.
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Location: Dorset 
Event Title:Fossil Preparation at Weymouth
Date:Nov 07, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: wsx)
Summary:
At Weymouth College.  The numbers will have to be limited to 24 because of the lab space.
A charge of £10 for the day will apply.
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Location: Granton Scotland
Event Title:Behind the scenes of the National Musuems of Scotland with Dr Nick Fraser
Date:Nov 09, 2010
Event Type:Evening Outing   (organising Branch: esc)
Summary:
Maximum 16 places available so please book as soon as possible.
Tuesday 9th November 6.30pm
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Location: Powys Wales
Event Title:Builth-Llandrindod Wells geology
Date:Nov 12, 2010 - Nov 14, 2010
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: oxf)
Summary:Dave Green leads us on a hunt for Ordovician trilobitiferous sediments plus volcanics and intrusions, with unconformable Silurian cover.NOTE!! 2 JUL, PLEASE RE-REGISTER ATTENDANCE INTEREST WITH ORGANISER DUE TO COMPUTER GLITCH THANK YOU
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Location: Kent 
Event Title:S276 Student Day at Herne Bay
Date:Nov 14, 2010
Event Type:Introductory Field Trip   (organising Branch: lon)
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Location: London 
Event Title:Members Evening
Date:Nov 18, 2010
Event Type:Evening Talk   (organising Branch: lon)
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Location: Cumbria UK
Event Title:Society Winter Weekend at Shap Wells Hotel
Date:Nov 19, 2010 - Nov 21, 2010
Event Type:Society Winter Weekend   (organising Branch: ouc)
Summary:Weekend of lectures, field trips and indoor practical geology sessions with plenty of time to socialise over meals and in the bar.
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Location: Cardiff Wales
Event Title:Day of Lectures
Date:Nov 27, 2010
Event Type:Day of Talks   (organising Branch: ssi)
Summary:
 3 lectures.
Prof. Bill Fitches and others
 
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Location: National History Museum 
Event Title:National History London
Date:Nov 27, 2010
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: yor)
Summary:Behind the scenes visit to the National History Museum
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Location: Nottinghamshire 
Event Title:Day of talks
Date:December 2010
Event Type:Day of Talks   (organising Branch: emi)
Summary:Further details will be added once the itinerary has been arranged.
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Location: Milton Keynes UK
Event Title:Christmas Social Evening and members talks
Date:Dec 02, 2010
Event Type:Evening Talk   (organising Branch: wha)
Summary:Walton Hall, Seminar Room, Gass Building. This meeting is usually an informal social gathering with a quiz, raffle/tombola/lucky dip, seasonal snacks and mulled wine. We will have a Branch DIY session (Members' trips slideshows/talks). It will be busy and good fun.
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Location: Merseyside England
Event Title:Rainhill Lectures
Date:Dec 05, 2010
Event Type:Talk(s)   (organising Branch: nwe)
Summary:

Afternoon of geological talks, library and refreshments at Rainhill Village Hall.

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Location: Oxford 
Event Title:Mercury - New views of a geologically complex terrestrial planet
Date:Dec 07, 2010
Event Type:Evening Talk   (organising Branch: oxf)
Summary:Oxford Branch Christmas Lecture by Dr Dave Rothery - Open University
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Location: London 
Event Title:Formation of the Siberian Traps by Andy Saunders
Date:Dec 09, 2010
Event Type:Evening Talk   (organising Branch: lon)
Summary:
The role of a mantle plume in the formation of the Siberian Traps
by Andy Saunders
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Location: Plymouth, Devon, England
Event Title:Plymouth University Earth Sciences Dept
Date:Dec 11, 2010
Event Type:Talk(s)   (organising Branch: swe)
Summary:Visit to the Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences at the Uiversity of Plymouth, led by Dr. Mark Anderson
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Location: Milton Keynes UK
Event Title:To be announced
Date:Jan 06, 2011 - Jan 06, 2011
Event Type:Evening Talk   (organising Branch: wha)
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Location: Pitlochry Scotland
Event Title:West and East of Scotland AGM
Date:Jan 14, 2011 - Jan 16, 2011
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: wsc)
Summary:
The AGMs will be held on the afternoon of the 15th and the location for the morning field trip is to be arranged.
The guest speaker in the evening will be Professor Stuart Munro and the lecture will be followed in the evening by the Burns Supper.
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Location: Cambridge UK
Event Title:Day of Talks, East Anglian Branch AGM
Date:Jan 29, 2011
Event Type:Day of Talks   (organising Branch: ean)
Summary:3 Speakers, one of whom is Dr. Nick Rogers, head of the Earth Science Dept at the OU.
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Location: Lancashire England
Event Title:NW Branch AGM, lunch and social event at Bolton
Date:Jan 29, 2011
Event Type:Annual General Meeting   (organising Branch: nwe)
Summary:

AGM to be held at Bolton Parish Church Hall during the afternoon of Saturday Jan 29th. More details to follow later.

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Location: Somerset, England
Event Title:AGM Geoweekend
Date:Jan 29, 2011 - Jan 30, 2011
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: swe)
Summary:More details to follow
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Location: Glamorgan Wales
Event Title:Branch AGM
Date:Jan 30, 2011
Event Type:Annual General Meeting   (organising Branch: ssi)
Summary:
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Location: Milton Keynes UK
Event Title:Branch AGM and talk to be announced
Date:Feb 03, 2011 - Feb 03, 2011
Event Type:Annual General Meeting   (organising Branch: wha)
Summary:

Branch AGM at Walton Hall

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Location: Ceredigion Wales
Event Title:Aberystwyth: Igneous Petrology with Charlie Bendall and Bill Perkins
Date:Feb 25, 2011 - Feb 27, 2011
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: ssi)
Summary:
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Location: Berkshire 
Event Title:Sinkholes of Curridge/Hermitage - origin and land management issues
Date:Mar 20, 2011
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: oxf)
Summary:Dr Clive Edmonds
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Location: Tenerife Islas Canarias
Event Title:Volcanoes on a shoestring
Date:Mar 29, 2011 - Apr 05, 2011
Event Type:Longer Trip   (organising Branch: ssi)
Summary:Leader: Linda Fowler
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Location: Kent UK
Event Title:Kent Geology
Date:Apr 01, 2011
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: ean)
Summary:Leader Gareth George
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Location: Western Mendips UK
Event Title:Periclinal Cheese - Geology of the Mendips around Cheddar and Wells
Date:Apr 02, 2011 - Apr 03, 2011
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: oxf)
Summary:Dave Green leads us through the intricasies of Somerset geology from Silurian to Cretaceous
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Location: Lancashire UK
Event Title:Society AGM Weekend
Date:Apr 15, 2011 - Apr 17, 2011
Event Type:Annual General Meeting   (organising Branch: ouc)
Summary:AGM Meeting on Saturday 16th April at Myerscough College, near Preston, followed by the Geoff Brown Memorial Lecture and Gala Buffet and Disco. 
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Location: Lilstock, Somerset, England
Event Title:Triassic-Jurassic geology on the North Somerset coast.
Date:Apr 17, 2011
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: swe)
Summary:A field trip to the north Somerset coast led by Gordon Neighbour in a classic area for Triassic-Jurassic geology and palaeontology.

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Location: Dingle and Portmagee Ireland
Event Title:Evolution of the contrasting Paleozoic geology
Date:Apr 26, 2011 - May 02, 2011
Event Type:Longer Trip   (organising Branch: ssi)
Summary:
Leader Ken Higgs
more details later
 
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Location: Gwynedd N Wales
Event Title:Weekend Trip to the Lleyn Peninsula with Dr Jana Horak
Date:May 2011
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: nwe)
Summary:

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Location: Peak District Derbyshire  
Event Title:Pennine Basins & Namurian Deltas
Date:May 20, 2011 - May 22, 2011
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: wsx)
Summary:
Peak District.  The exact dates will be confirmed at the beginning of August.
Detail to follow.
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Location: Porto Portugal
Event Title:Igneous Rocks of Porto area of Portugal led by Lesley Dunlop
Date:May 28, 2011
Event Type:Longer Trip   (organising Branch: lon)
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Location: Catalonia Spain
Event Title:Rocks of the Continent
Date:June 2011
Event Type:Longer Trip   (organising Branch: oxf)
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Location: North Devon, England
Event Title:Westward Ho! and Northam Burrows
Date:Jun 12, 2011
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: swe)
Summary:
Led by Peter Keene of Thematic Trails, and organised around walks already published by Peter.
 
Morning: Cliffs - geomorphological and geological evolution, including raised beaches.
Afternoon: Coastal erosion and management and environmental change.
 
 
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Location: South Cumbria England
Event Title:Millom Rock Park and Windermere Supergroup around Broughton-in-Furness
Date:Jun 19, 2011
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: nwe)
Summary:Leader: David Kelly (Cumberland Geol Soc). Morning: Exploring Millom Rock Park (opened 2009). Afternoon: The Windermere Supergroup around Broughton-in-Furness - more details later. 
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Location: Artic Norway Norway
Event Title:The Suture on a Shoestring goes to the Norwegian Arctic
Date:Jul 23, 2011 - Aug 06, 2011
Event Type:Longer Trip   (organising Branch: ssi)
Summary:
A spectacular follow up to the 2002 trip to Norway which was led by Mark Anderson of Plymouth University:
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Location: Scotland UK
Event Title:2011 Symposium at Stirling, North of the Suture - Stitches in Time.
Date:Aug 19, 2011 - Aug 21, 2011
Event Type:Symposium   (organising Branch: ouc)
Summary:The highly diverse geology of Scotland has evolved over 3000 million years and the rocks record evidence of changes in topography, climate, geography and tectonic movement across the surface of the Earth.
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Location: Northumbria England
Event Title:Weekend trip to the Northumbrian Coast with Dr Paul Williams
Date:Sep 30, 2011 - Oct 02, 2011
Event Type:Weekend Trip   (organising Branch: nwe)
Summary:

Leader: Dr Paul Williams. Location: Stay at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Date: Weekend at end of September?  Details tba

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Location: Anywhere Not Overseas
Event Title:Spare Event Test
Date:Dec 31, 2011
Event Type:Day Trip   (organising Branch: ouc)
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