Events marked with a map are field trips. Day Field Trips are nearly always held on a Sunday.
Unless otherwise stated, meetings start at 7:15pm (tea/coffee & biscuits) with talks at 7:30pm at Plas Dolerw, Milford Road, Newtown.
Date | Event |
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January 17th |
AGM followed by short talk: Bill Bagley - The Wonders of Calcite |
February 14th |
Dr. Geoff Steel: The Origins of Atoms |
March 14th |
Guest speaker - Bob Loveridge: Cretaceous Fossils, Aripe Basin, NE Brazil |
April 25th |
Andrew Jenkinson: Rocks along Montgomeryshire Cana |
April 28th |
Criggion quarry – led by Hanson Quarry staff (Saturday 10am - 1pm. Numbers limited to 14) |
May 16th |
Guest Speaker – Dr. Richard Carter: Postglacial Environmental Change and Human Adaptation during the Mesolithic in Sussex |
May 20th |
Coed-y-Brenin led by Dr. John Mason (Guest) |
June 10th |
Dethenydd (nr Llandinam) led by member |
June 20th |
Guest Speaker – Dr. John Davies ( Welsh Stone Forum): Building Stones of Montgomeryshire |
July 6th - 9th |
Summer Weekend: Anglesey – led by Dr Charlie Bendall (Guest) |
July 18th |
Evening field trip: Aberedw Rocks (south of Builth) |
August 15th |
Tony Thorp: Geology of Arran |
August 19th |
Geological Walk to Rodney's Pillar , Welshpool -led by Tony Thorp |
September 9th |
Bala and Adam Sedgwick’s rocks led by Keith Nicholls (NWGA) |
September 19th |
Guest Speaker - Paul Lane: Fossil Plants of the Carboniferous Period |
October 17th |
Kit Moorhouse: North Sea Oil Fields and Debris Flows |
November 21st |
Member’s evening – Short talks and Buffet |