Fantastic Fossils at Bampton Library, April Friday 11th
Handle dinosaur teeth, claws and bones
Bring along your own fossils for experts to identify
Make your own Dino mask
Lucky dip for 60-300 million year old fossils
11th April 2025
Friday 11th April at Bampton Library, School Lane, Bampton, OX18 2NE, 2 pm to 4 pm
Call 01993 850076 to book
Cost £3 (includes Lucky Dip)
Fantastic Fossils at Carterton Library, Saturday April 12th
Handle dinosaur teeth, claws and bones.
Bring along your own fossils for experts to identify.
Make your own Dino mask.
Lucky dip for 60-300 million year old fossils
12th April 2025
Saturday 12th April at Carterton Library, OX18 3JH, 10 to 12am.
Booking essential: phone library at 01993 841492
Cost £3 (includes Lucky Dip)
Wheatley’s Geology: Academic Controversy but Industrial Value, Tuesday April 15th
Wheatley's Geology: Academic Controversy but Industrial Value
A talk by Dr Nigel Banks
From the 13th century to the end of the 19th century Wheatley’s rocks were exploited for multiple uses including the quarrying of building stone, brick-making and the production of ochre. The extensive exposures so created have allowed geologists the opportunity to study the sediments in more detail than is usually possible.
As a result, Wheatley has become a site of geological controversy, particularly about the origin of prominent northeasterly dipping beds seen in the Corallian Wheatley Limestone in several old quarries in and near the village. Many villagers are lucky enough to now see these beds in their gardens. The origin of the dips leads to a wider controversy about the reasons for the abrupt thinning of the Corallian as it passes north-eastwards through the village along the outcrop trend. That then leads to different views about the subsurface distribution of Corallian facies to the south-east of Wheatley.
The talk aims to summarise the different geological opinions and suggest, with the benefit of the latest data, which are the more credible.
15th April 2025
The talk will be in the Westwood Room of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History , Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, from 6.30 to 7.30 pm.
For OUMNH visitor information see https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/visit-us
Wittenham Clumps geology walk Saturday April 26
The two Clumps are of Cretaceous chalk with a thin capping of Quaternary gravels. They form outliers from the main Chilterns escarpment to the south. Their prominence as a local landmark has led to archaeological significance, and they feature in well-known landscape paintings of Paul Nash.
26th April 2025
Meet at Wittenham Clumps car park SU5677 9234 at 10.30 am for a walk around the two Clumps, lasting about one and half hours.
GeOx talk, Oxford UMNH, Monday May 19th, 6pm
19th May 2025
The talk will be in the Westwood Room of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History , Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, from 6 to 7 pm.
For OUMNH visitor information see https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/visit-us
OGT Annual General Meeting, Thursday 24th July
Annual General Meeting of the Oxfordshire Geology Trust
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24th July 2025
Thursday 24th July, 7.30 pm. at the Old Crown Coaching Inn, 25 Market Square, Faringdon, SN7 7HU