Programme of Events

Black Country Geological Society’s indoor meetings will be held during the winter months at the Abbey Room at the Dudley Archives, Tipton Road, Dudley, DY1 4SQ.

Unless otherwise stated, the Abbey Room and Zoom meetings will normally open at 7.30pm and lectures commence at 8.00pm.

Those wishing to attend field or geoconservation meetings please contact our Field Secretary (email address on the Contacts page).

Any non-members wishing to attend our virtual meetings should contact our Meetings Secretary for instructions (email address on the Contacts page).

Other contact details are also available on our Contact us page.

Updated 9 May 2024.

Members please check your email for any last minute changes.

Recordings of some of our virtual talks can be found on our YouTube channel.

Events in January–February 2023

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
26 December
27 December
28 December
29 December
30 December
31 December

January

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16 January(1 event)

Jurassic Gems of the Yorkshire Coast


16 January

Monday 16 January 2023 (Indoor Meeting): 'Jurassic Gems of the Yorkshire Coast'. Speaker: Liam Herringshaw. Liam is a palaeontologist, based in York. His PhD at the University of Birmingham (2004) was on the rare and problematical fossils of the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, based primarily on museum specimens from Dudley. He has been a researcher at the universities of Aberdeen, Newfoundland, Durham and York, before becoming Lecturer in Geology at the University of Hull. Since 2020, he has been working with Yorkshire schools and museums, and is Director of the Yorkshire Fossil Festival. The talk will explore some favourite spots on the Yorkshire Coast, from Runswick Bay to Filey Brigg, told through the fossils and sedimentary rocks found there.
17 January
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24 January
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26 January
27 January
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29 January
30 January
31 January

February

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17 February
18 February
19 February
20 February(1 event)

'The early Anthropocene: our lifetimes'


20 February

Monday 20 February (Indoor Meeting): Please note change of talk. 'The early Anthropocene: our lifetimes'. Speaker: Ian Fairchild (Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham and Chair, H&W EHT). Ian is a member of the Working Group on the Anthropocene, a sub-group of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (part of the International Commission on Stratigraphy). We are grateful to Prof. Fairchild for stepping in at short notice.
21 February
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25 February
26 February
27 February
28 February

March

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