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PLEASE NOTE: This itinerary is an extract from a book partly compiled during the 1990s. The text and photographs reflect the geological knowledge of that time as well as the accessibility of the locations.

Please ensure that you ask permission from landowners to visit any of the locations mentioned in this text, which are on private property and that you are suitably equipped for rough terrain and fickle local weather.

Old Red Sandstone of the Black MountainsDownload

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This section includes the Group’s magazine Welsh Geological Quarterly, published between 1965 and 1970.

The compilation has been scanned from cyclostyled issues of the magazine. Original issues are in the Publications cardboard archive box. As with some other older papers, the better the quality of the original printing, the higher the degree of searchability. A search for “Bassett” in the digital compilation gives 63 mentions, but there are most certainly more occurrences than this.

The Welsh Geological Quarterly (edited by Dr Douglas Bassett) was published in several numbers, forming 5 volumes, between 1965 and 1970.
It was an in-house periodical, cyclostyled and published 4 times a year. It was duplicated on 21cm x 26.5cm paper stapled between soft covers (vol.1 cream, vol.2 red, vol.3 grey, vol.4 green, vol.5 orange). The charge for volume 1 parts 1 & 2 was 6/- (2s 6d per copy + 6d postage). Similarly for volume 1 parts 3 & 4 [6/- is 30p in decimal currency].

The Group was unable to sustain support for this and despite the Editor’s efforts, it ceased publication in 1970 with volume 5 part 1.

These journals were digitized in 2014. The Scanned versions are available here and remain copyright South Wales Geologists' Association

A detailed introduction to the Volumes is also provided

IntroductionDownload
Volume 1 Part 1 - Autumn 1965Download
Volume 1 Part 2 - Winter 1965Download
Volume 1 Part 3 - Spring 1966 Download
Volume 1 Part 4 - Summer 1966Download
Volume 2 Part 1 - Autumn 1966Download
Volume 2 Part 2 - Winter 1966Download
Volume 2 Part 3 - Spring 1967Download
Volume 2 Part 4 - Summer 1967Download
Volume 3 Part 1 - Autumn 1967Download
Volume 3 Part 2 - Winter 1967Download
Volume 3 Parts 3 & 4 - Spring & Summer 1968Download
Volume 4 Part 1 - Autumn 1968Download
Volume 4 Parts 2 & 3 - Winter 1968 & Spring 1969Download
Volume 4 Part 4 - Summer 1969Download
Volume 5 Part 1 - Autumn 1969Download

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New, fully-illustrated, 124 page book describes the landscape and geology across the Brecon Beacons National Park as seen from the Beacons Way, a long distance walking route from Ysgyryd Fawr in the east to Bethlehem in the west. £7.95.

Available from: Cindy Howells, Geologists’ Association South Wales Group, Department of Geology, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff CF10 3NP.

Cheques should be made payable to the Geologists’ Association South Wales Group.