Lecture: Revealing the Geology of the Lickey Hills
My lecture to the West Midlands Regional Group of the Geological Society can now be seen on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUON-7OflOg
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New Lickey Geo-Champions Banner
Earlier this year the group approved the idea of getting a pull-up banner to promote our conservation work. The design has been finalised, and we intend to use it at local events, and at our conservation sessions.
Continue reading →LGS Proposals Uploaded
Several of our Worcestershire sites now have LGS status. Proposal forms and site reports for these have been uploaded to this site. Birmingham has a different system of designation which applies to three of our sites – assessment reports for … Continue reading →
The Lower Palaeozoic Geology of the Lickey Hills 2nd Edition
To coincide with the forthcoming lecture Revealing the Geology of the Lickey Hills on 21 January, The Lower Palaeozoic Geology of the Lickey Hills has been revised and updated, and is now available as a pdf download from this site: … Continue reading →
Public Lecture – Revealing the Geology of the Lickey Hills
No booking necessary, but please let Alan know if you intend to come, so that we can set out enough chairs. alanrichardson.geo@gmail.com
Continue reading →LGS Status for Lickey Hills Sites
An enhanced photograph of the fissure infill above the ammunition store in the Warren Lane Quarry. Worcestershire Planning Department has now accepted our latest proposals for granting Local Geological Site (LGS) status to outcrops in the Lickey Hills. Our LGS … Continue reading →
The Bilberry Hill Unconformity
In recent years, work by the Lickey Hills Geo-Champions has revealed exposures of an unconformity on Bilberry Hill and Rednal Hill. In both locations a strongly-cemented breccia, dominated by angular quartzite fragments, rests on the eroded surface of the Lickey … Continue reading →
A Trace Fossil in Warren Lane Quarry
In 2019 the surface impressions of worm burrows were found preserved on a bedding plane in the Eachway Lane Quarry. Until now, these trace fossils were the only evidence of life to have been identified in the Lickey Quartzite Formation. … Continue reading →
New Unconformity Outcrop Found on Rednal Hill
Rednal Hill Unconformity – SO 99705 75984 (+or- 7m in any direction) In the summer, Julie Schroder noticed a difference between two tiny exposures on the footpath on Rednal Hill. She suspected that the two lithologies were the same as … Continue reading →
Rubery Road Cutting Update
Today’s clearance session was aimed at ensuring that last year’s progress was not lost to the insidious encroachment of the geologist’s nemesis…plant life. Weeding, bramble-bashing and litter collection maintained the visibility of the exposure, and pressure washing of one section … Continue reading →