#FridayFold Ordovician mudrocks at Laxey, Isle of Man (#OUGS Severnside 2006, Bill Fitches "In Sight of the Suture" www.geolsoc.org.uk/SP160) and read about IoM geology in an OUGS London trip report ougs.org/london/event...
November 29, 2024 at 6:00 AM
#FridayFold Ordovician mudrocks at Laxey, Isle of Man (#OUGS Severnside 2006, Bill Fitches "In Sight of the Suture" www.geolsoc.org.uk/SP160) and read about IoM geology in an OUGS London trip report ougs.org/london/event...
For #FossilFriday here are some Jurassic ammonites from Shorncote, Gloucestershire UK. #OUGS Severnide went there with NevilleHollingsworth Anyone good at ID-ing ammonites?
December 13, 2024 at 6:34 AM
For #FossilFriday here are some Jurassic ammonites from Shorncote, Gloucestershire UK. #OUGS Severnide went there with NevilleHollingsworth Anyone good at ID-ing ammonites?
Happy 300th birthday James Hutton! OUGS visiting one of Hutton's "proof of plutonism" sites in Glen Tilt, Blair Athol
June 3, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Happy 300th birthday James Hutton! OUGS visiting one of Hutton's "proof of plutonism" sites in Glen Tilt, Blair Athol
#VolcanoThursday penitentes near Teide top teleferico station. Tenerife #VolcanoesOnAShoestring #OUGS
January 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
#VolcanoThursday penitentes near Teide top teleferico station. Tenerife #VolcanoesOnAShoestring #OUGS
Syntectonic folding i.e. the older, lower beds have been folded more than the younger, higher, beds. Spanish Pyrenees. Aguero, Aragon. #FridayFold #OUGS #Pyrenees1996
February 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Syntectonic folding i.e. the older, lower beds have been folded more than the younger, higher, beds. Spanish Pyrenees. Aguero, Aragon. #FridayFold #OUGS #Pyrenees1996
#ThinSectionThursday ribbon quartz grains in schist....XP #OUGS Severnside Branch microscope weekend in Aberystwyth
December 19, 2024 at 3:57 AM
#ThinSectionThursday ribbon quartz grains in schist....XP #OUGS Severnside Branch microscope weekend in Aberystwyth
July 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Heading to our OUGS AGM in Coventry... nice bit of cross-strat by Platform 9 at Edinburgh Waverley :)
#UrbanGeology
#UrbanGeology
May 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Heading to our OUGS AGM in Coventry... nice bit of cross-strat by Platform 9 at Edinburgh Waverley :)
#UrbanGeology
#UrbanGeology
OUGS Scotland!
Some views from today’s walk amongst the early Carboniferous volcanic rocks of East Lothian: the phonolitic trachyte of North Berwick Law, and the earliest basalt lavas of the East Linton Member, Garleton Hills Volcanic Formation exposed on the south side of the glacial meltwater channel at Balgone.
January 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
OUGS Scotland!
#FridayFold near Albertville, Bauges Massif, French Alps. OUGS Mainland Europe Branch 2018.
February 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
#FridayFold near Albertville, Bauges Massif, French Alps. OUGS Mainland Europe Branch 2018.
May 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Hydrothermally altered Miocene volcanic ashes and breccias on the edge of the Rodalquilar caldera, Las Negras, Almeria, Spain.
#VolcanoThursday #OUGS #VolcanoesOnAShoestring
#VolcanoThursday #OUGS #VolcanoesOnAShoestring
January 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Hydrothermally altered Miocene volcanic ashes and breccias on the edge of the Rodalquilar caldera, Las Negras, Almeria, Spain.
#VolcanoThursday #OUGS #VolcanoesOnAShoestring
#VolcanoThursday #OUGS #VolcanoesOnAShoestring
#MineralMonday do you like your garnets with strain shadows or without? Some syn-, some post-tectonic, cm-sized porphyroblasts on the same exposure of the Gratangen nappe, Troms, Norway. #OUGS 2011
January 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
#MineralMonday do you like your garnets with strain shadows or without? Some syn-, some post-tectonic, cm-sized porphyroblasts on the same exposure of the Gratangen nappe, Troms, Norway. #OUGS 2011
This weeks's #FridayFold - Triassic mica schist at Hoya de la Mora, Sierra Nevada, Andalucia, Spain. #MantleInTheMountains #OUGS with Tom Argles 2015/2016
January 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This weeks's #FridayFold - Triassic mica schist at Hoya de la Mora, Sierra Nevada, Andalucia, Spain. #MantleInTheMountains #OUGS with Tom Argles 2015/2016
OUGS Northumbria Branch's latest newsletter is out!
Love the front cover!
OUGS Members can access all branch NL in the members area of our website ougs.org
Love the front cover!
OUGS Members can access all branch NL in the members area of our website ougs.org
June 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
OUGS Northumbria Branch's latest newsletter is out!
Love the front cover!
OUGS Members can access all branch NL in the members area of our website ougs.org
Love the front cover!
OUGS Members can access all branch NL in the members area of our website ougs.org
He's a good friend of #OUGS!
Dr Neil Clark, who features in this article, led my first @ougeolsoc.bsky.social outing - a behind the scenes look at the palaeontological collection at the Hunterian Museum.
December 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
He's a good friend of #OUGS!
#VolcanoThursday Volcàn de Bayuyo, Fuerteventura, a monogenetic cone that erupted some 10 000 years ago. #OUGS #VolcanoesOnAShoestring 2010s
February 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
#VolcanoThursday Volcàn de Bayuyo, Fuerteventura, a monogenetic cone that erupted some 10 000 years ago. #OUGS #VolcanoesOnAShoestring 2010s
Hazel Rymer just posted this from the Freshers' Fair at the OU today. Anyone else there? I can see Pauline Kirtley , and I think, Sue Wilson ?
Thanks for all your efforts guys - lets hope OUGS gets lots of new, enthusiastic, members!
Thanks for all your efforts guys - lets hope OUGS gets lots of new, enthusiastic, members!
September 26, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Hazel Rymer just posted this from the Freshers' Fair at the OU today. Anyone else there? I can see Pauline Kirtley , and I think, Sue Wilson ?
Thanks for all your efforts guys - lets hope OUGS gets lots of new, enthusiastic, members!
Thanks for all your efforts guys - lets hope OUGS gets lots of new, enthusiastic, members!
Eas Mór (the "big waterfall"), Glen Brittle, Skye. #OUGS Severnside trip with Charlie Bendall. This is where the Allt Coire na Banachdich which flows from the Cuillin hills falls over plateau lavas, interspersed with infill conglomerates. #WaterfallWednesday
January 22, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Eas Mór (the "big waterfall"), Glen Brittle, Skye. #OUGS Severnside trip with Charlie Bendall. This is where the Allt Coire na Banachdich which flows from the Cuillin hills falls over plateau lavas, interspersed with infill conglomerates. #WaterfallWednesday
Folded turbidites on Quebec's Gaspé north shore. OUGS 2012. #FridayFold
June 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Folded turbidites on Quebec's Gaspé north shore. OUGS 2012. #FridayFold
#FossilFriday a school of sprats! Leptolepis sprattiformis, which are only c. 6 or 7 cm long, on display at the Burgomeister Müller Museum in Eichstatt. Actually more like whitebait than sprats!Plus one surrounded by manganese dendrites. #OUGS trip with @palaeofossil.bsky.social and John Nudds 2019
February 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
#FossilFriday a school of sprats! Leptolepis sprattiformis, which are only c. 6 or 7 cm long, on display at the Burgomeister Müller Museum in Eichstatt. Actually more like whitebait than sprats!Plus one surrounded by manganese dendrites. #OUGS trip with @palaeofossil.bsky.social and John Nudds 2019
Latest issue of Mercia Rocks, OUGS West Midlands Branch newsletter
This should be with branch members soon, and other OUGS members can access it on our website ougs.org
This should be with branch members soon, and other OUGS members can access it on our website ougs.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Latest issue of Mercia Rocks, OUGS West Midlands Branch newsletter
This should be with branch members soon, and other OUGS members can access it on our website ougs.org
This should be with branch members soon, and other OUGS members can access it on our website ougs.org
Saw these (and ate our sandwiches sitting on them!) on an #OUGS trip to #Newfoundland with @tomsharperocks.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Saw these (and ate our sandwiches sitting on them!) on an #OUGS trip to #Newfoundland with @tomsharperocks.bsky.social