Geology 2

Meeting time	Monthly 1st Monday 2:00pm-4:00pm
Venue	Springwood Community Centre, Waterlooville (see map) Out and about field trips
Enquiries	For more information or to join this group : Email groups@waterloovilleu3a.org.uk Use our contacts page Or visit the Groups table at any Coffee Morning or General Meeting If the group is full, your name can be added to the Waiting List and you will be offered a space when you reach the top.

This group started in April, 2019.

Can you identify rocks? What are fossils? What is Plate Tectonics?
We have fun learning about these topics and many more in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. Amongst other things, we have studied Minerals, Igneous rocks and Sedimentary Environments.

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Topics we looked at in 2024

Earthquakes
Geology of the Isle of Wight (field trip)
Kimmeridge and Etches Museum
Geology of Chichester Harbour with David Bone
Fossils
Dinosaurs
Geology of N. York Moors
Geology snippets
Mineral extravaganza!
Snowball Earth

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2024 Isle of Wight field trip

Monday 9 Dec 2019 Geology 2 Trip to Kimmeridge

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On a dry sunny winter's day 14 of us visited the Etches Fossil Collection at Kimmeridge in Dorset. Fossils collected locally over a lifetime by Steve Etches are beautifully preserved here and provide a deeper understanding of the Jurassic environment over 100 million years ago. After lunch in the local restaurant we then tried our own fossil collecting finding plenty of ammonites in the soft clays at Kimmeridge Bay.

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In September 2019 we went Fossil hunting at Bracklesham Bay where there are deposits that are 45 Million years old. We managed, between the showers, to find quite a hoard!