Here are some photos from past field trips.
For a more detailed description of the trips and the geology we saw, download
the corresponding newsletter.
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The chalk of Normandy - September 2011 Click here for 2011-12 Newsletter
Western end of Dieppe bay.
View
of cliff showing erosional downlap and channel-fill onlap in the Santonian
(84 Ma)
Flint
bands in the chalk
Group
listening to Prof. Rory Mortimore explaining the geology
Sediment-filled
karst features along the impermeable Seven Sisters Flint Band
SW of dieppe - Etretat, Cap d'Antifer.
Tilleul beach- cliff
section with flint and marl seams that can be correlated to sections in Sussex
Tilleul beach –
Cliff section showing mounds and channels in the Etretat chalk
Tilleul beach –
group examining the pink flints in the chalk
Tilleul beach
– fossiliferous chalk with sea urchin spines
Etretat
– cliff arches
NE of Dieppe - Puys, Criel.
Puys
- examining flints in the Lewis Chalk Formation and on the beach
Criel
– cliff section showing wave cut platform
Criel
– tubular flints
Northern Ireland - April 2010 Click here for 2010-11 Newsletter
Giant's causeway and nearby coast.
The Causeway basalts are one of a number of early tertiary flows in
Antrim, overlying the chalk of the Upper Cretaceous.
Just
east of the causeway - the Causeway Basalts are above the prominent
laterite weathered layer
Causeway
'organ
pipes'
View
of Kinbane Head
Spheroidal
weathering
creates 'giant's eyes'
Carrick-a-rede volcano, now
an island reached by an exciting rope bridge. This volcano erupted
through the chalk during the initial explosive stage of igneous activity in
Antrim.
Chalk flora near the
island
Aspects of the cretaceous
underlying the basalt flows.
View
on the coast road
Study
session above Ballintoy harbour
Kinbane
Castle - chalk with dolerite intrusion
The
fossil leaf Phil found on the path up from Kinbane Head
Some earlier
formations
Portrush foreshore -
dolerite sill intruded into Lias. The
hornfels near the contact was thought to be basalt by the plutonists
