Portencross
Leaders: Austen Brown and David Webster The rocks exposed around Portencross are mainly sandstones (known across the UK as the ‘Old Red Sandstone’ (ORS) dating back to the Devonian Period […]
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Founded 1858
Leaders: Austen Brown and David Webster The rocks exposed around Portencross are mainly sandstones (known across the UK as the ‘Old Red Sandstone’ (ORS) dating back to the Devonian Period […]
A chance to look at rocks and fossils, chat informally to others, ask questions about geology and find out what's happening locally
A short tour of Holmwood House and a look at how the design of the house links with geology, including the use of earth pigments.
A chance to look at rocks and fossils, chat informally to others, ask questions about geology and find out what's happening locally
Leader: Margaret Greene Necropolis Hill is one of the highest points of Glasgow. It stands proud simply because it is the outcrop of an intrusion of more resistant igneous rock […]
A chance to look at rocks and fossils, chat informally to others, ask questions about geology and find out what's happening locally
Leader: Katie Strang The rocks exposed along the foreshore at Burnmouth in the Scottish Borders are early Carboniferous in age and belong to the Ballagan Formation. They were deposited in […]
Leaders: Neil Clark, Gary Hoare and Katie Strang A look at the rocks and fossils of the Girvan southern foreshore that have been studied for well over a century. […]
A chance to look at rocks and fossils, chat informally to others, ask questions about geology and find out what's happening locally
A chance to look at rocks and fossils, chat informally to others, ask questions about geology and find out what's happening locally
A chance to look at rocks and fossils, chat informally to others, ask questions about geology and find out what's happening locally
A chance to look at rocks and fossils, chat informally to others, ask questions about geology and find out what's happening locally
A chance to look at rocks and fossils, chat informally to others, ask questions about geology and find out what's happening locally
A residential field excursion to the Garvellach Islands. Now postponed to May 2026. Trip currently full. To go on the waiting list contact the Hon Secretary at sec@gsocg.org
