Welcome to the Llanbadoc Geology trail, Monmouthshire. Here are on line versions of leaflets published by Ramblers Cymru available in English and Welsh , and an extended version for those who wish to know a bit more. There is also a quiz covering the whole trail but also for a shortened walk to Cefn Ila and back to Llanbadog. By Elen Wharton.
Author: Geo
June 2023 Newsletter
March 2023 Newsletter
The Challenges of vertebrate flight
If you missed our lecture by Colin Palmer you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/JYBxiFck7eU
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Winter 2022-2023 program
Saturday 7th January 2023: (Cardiff or Zoom)
Holiday Geology
Saturday 21st January: (Trallwn Community Centre, Swansea and Zoom)
Peter Kokelaar
Landscape evolution in southwest Wales: revelations of a dynamic Earth
Saturday 18th February: (Zoom Only)
Colin Palmer (IOW) – "The engineering of pterosaur flight" (provisional title)
Saturday 18th March: (Cardiff University and Zoom)
AGM and Peter Sheldon (Open University), "Exceptional fossils – the surprising, the significant and the strange"
You can view or download our newsletter here: http://swga.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SWGA-NewsletterDec2022.pdf
Tectonic Evolution of the Hymalaya
If you missed our lecture by Mike Searle you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/fSWyAWRZpUc
Quaternary Glaciations in the Mediterranean Mountains
If you missed our lecture by Philip Hughes you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/n_QCQhM2DEA
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William Smith in South Wales
If you missed our lecture by Duncan Hawley you can see it here: https://youtu.be/t9D3k9bZWMc
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Updated Winter 2022-23 Programme
Oct 6 (Geodiversity Day) - Duncan Hawley (HOGG),
"William Smith in South Wales" [Zoom (evening talk)]
Oct 29 - Professor Philip Hughes (University of Manchester),
"Quaternary glaciation in the Mediterranean mountains - from Morocco to Montenegro" [Cardiff]
Nov 19 - Ewan Thomas (Geotechnology Ltd.),
"The work of an engineering geologist in South Wales" [Swansea]
Dec 10 - Professor Mike Searle, (University of Oxford)
"Tectonics and mountain building in the Himalaya" (provisional title) [Zoom]
Jan 7 - Holiday Geology [Cardiff]
Jan 21 - Peter Kokelaar,
"Landscape evolution of southwest Wales: revelations of a dynamic Earth" [Swansea]
Feb 18 - Colin Palmer (IOW),
"Engineering research into pterosaur flight" (provisional title) [Zoom]
March 18 - Peter Sheldon (Open University),
"Exceptional fossils – the surprising, the significant and the strange’ [AGM Cardiff]