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Field Meeting, Visit to Titterstone Clee Hill

BCGS Posted on 11 June 2018 by admin10 July 2018
Field Meeting, Visit to Titterstone Clee Hill

10.00 – 5.00
1 September

Saturday 1 September (Field Meeting): Visit to Titterstone Clee Hill, Shropshire, led by Andrew Jenkinson (Shropshire Geological Society). Joint meeting with the OUGS WM. Meeting point: 10.00am at Clee Hill village car park, situated on the A4117 immediately east of the village high street and cattle grid at grid ref. SO 595 754. This field trip will give an insight into the complete Carboniferous succession on the south flank of “St Georges Land”. Basalt, coal, limestone and fireclay were quarried here and we will visit old quarries of geological and industrial interest. We will also observe a columnar basalt intrusion and discuss the structural significance of the Church Stretton and Malvern faults.

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