Geo-natter
Geo-natter
A chance to look at rocks and fossils, chat informally to others, ask questions about geology and find out what's happening locally
Founded 1858 | Promoting public interest in geology and advancing geological knowledge
Founded 1858
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 a low-lying vegetated coastal wetland around 350 million years ago, when Scotland as we know it was a very different place! During this time we […]
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. Elizabeth Gray, the famous Scottish 19th century fossil collector and facilitator of research grew up here. Her discoveries led to our current understanding of the […]