Previous NEGS Field Trips

(detail is reported in the appropriate newsletter)

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2025

​April 5th               Holy Island  Joint field trip with NOUGS  

Leader: Karl Egeland – Erickson

​May 11th             Permian Rocks at Cullercoats Bay and Marden Nature Reserve   

Leader: Jon May                                

​​July 13th              Northern Pennines Mineralisation 

(A full day field meeting to explore and discuss some key aspects of, and new ideas on, the Northern Pennines Orefield)

Leader: Brian Young

​August 24th        Tynemouth Cliffs (Carboniferous and Permian rocks)

n.b. This field trip was postponed due to continuing building work at the pier. The site cannot be safely accessed.           Leader:  Jon May

​12 October          Bowlees in Teesdale         

A full day field meeting to introduce geological maps; how they are made, how to read them and what they can, and cannot, tell us.

Leader: Brian Young                                      

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​2024

​April 20th         Geology of Durham Cathedral.   

Leader: Brian Young​

May 12th         Kepier Woods and Pittington.                                          (Joint Trip with NOUGS)                                                    

Leader: Karl Egeland – Erickson

​June 15th      Long Houghton coast.                 

Leader: Louise Golightley

​July 28th        From fire to ice, the development of the Till Valley

Leader: Ian Kille

​August TBC.   Unfortunately arrangements were cancelled)            
September 14th          Geophysical research at Houghall

Leader: Chris Saville

 

2023

​16th April       Cheviot - College Valley
Leader: Dr. Ian Kille

​This will involve two walking routes one from Hethpool to Hethpool Linn a round trip of circa 4km on a good path, and from Cuddystone Hall up to Goldscleugh a round trip of about 9km much of which is on the road.

May 28th      Fulwell and Marsden. 

Leader: Dr. Andy Lane    

Andy led members to the exposures telling the tale of the Permian marine sediments in our area (close to Marsden rock).

June 18th             Nenthead, guided by local volunteers.   Note that this is a joint visit, with NOUGS. 

​July 9th Gordon Liddle / Christine Telford: stress environments affecting the Carboniferous in SE Northumberland. 
Details TBA, best contact Gordon Liddle a few days before the event to confirm.

August 20th        Greenleighton Quarry / Wards Hill Quarry.  

Leaders: Karl Egeland-Eriksen and Gordon Liddle led an exploration with group work & exercises to identify the geological  processes which formed the exposures visited.

​​Sept 17th Dr Chris Savilll will lead at Bowlees, studying disturbed sedimentary sequences of the North Pennines
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2022

April 24th             Building Stones of Sunderland

Leader: Andy Lane (retired lecturer and local author) took us around Sunderland looking at the rocks used in the construction of local buildings.  

​May 22nd  Field excursion to the Derwent Valley to examine glacial features in the area, led by

Leader: Derek Teasdale.

​26th June  We explored the eastern end of Liddesdale and the Hutton Unconformity.

​17th July  a trip to examine the tectonic effects that are visible on the coast, between Tynemouth and Seaton Sluice.

Leader: Dr Ian Kille

13th August       South Tyne valley

to explore the Carboniferous section along the to its source including mineralisation in the area.

Leader: Karl Egeland-Eriksen
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2021

July 17th              Southdean Law, Chesters, near Bonchester Bridge.  A Nepheline Basanite plug - rather unusual in context of the local area.

Leader: Louis  Golightly

​August 21st                        Whin sill exposures

Leader: Ian Kille

​September 19th              The Burtreeford Disturbance                 

Leader: Karl Egeland-Eriksen

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​2020

No field trips were possible because of the COVID-19 regulations.

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2019

April 14th              The Post-glacial development of the Ouseburn Valley

Leader: Gordon Liddle

​19th May               The Closehouse-Lunedale Fault System and local mineralisation

Leader:Lesley Collins

​9th June                The Early Carboniferous Sedimentary rocks around Spittal

Leader: Dr. Ian Kille

​7th July                 The Lower Permian Magnesian Limestone around Trow Point

Leader: Karl Egeland-Eriksen

​3rd August            Coldingham and the Linkim Shore

Leader:  Louis Golightly

​29th Sept               A look Around Seaham (Magnesian Limestone & Coal Measures)

Leader: Dr. Andy Lane

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​2018

22nd April            Askrigg - sandstone, limestone, and mineralisation

Leader: Lesley Collins

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Other details of 2018 have been lost from this site due to a computer error.  They should be available in old Newsletters.

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2017

15th July                 Whin exposures on North East coast

Dr. Ian Kille, Northumbrian Earth

​17th June             Whiteadder Water, Lower Carboniferous sediments, Berwickshire, Scottish Borders

Leader:  Louis Golightley

​20th May              Jurassic ironstone and jet plus a Palaeogene dyke, Roseberry Topping and Cliff Rigg Quarry

A joint field meeting with NOUGS led by Karl Egeland-Erikson

​May                        Glacial Lineations in Mid-Northumberland

Leader:  Derek Teasdale

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​2016

21st May 

Geological Sites in Sunderland South

Leader:  Dr Andy Lane

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30th July 

Quaternary Glaciation in the Cheviot Hills

Leader:  Derek Teasdale

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9th October 

Field-trip - The Geology of Holy Island

Leader:  Louis Golightly

 

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2015

9th May 

Carboniferous sedimentary cycles between Howick Bay and Boulmer

Leader: Derek Teasdale

4th July 

Siccar  Point and Barns Ness

Leader: Mike Browne

19th Sept     

Whitby – Saltwick Bay

Leader: John Waring

26th Sept 

Knock Fell, Pennine Escarpment.

Leader: Eric Johnson

10th Oct 

Coldberry Gutter, Teesdale

Leader: Brian Young

 

 

2014

11th May 

Sutton Bank and the Howardian Hills: Middle and Upper Jurassic

Leaders:  John Powell and Jon Ford 

5th July 

Lady Cross Quarry and Blanchland: Carboniferous stratigraphy with Mineralisation

Leader: Dr. Eric Johnson

20th July 

Austwick and Crummackdale: Precambrian to Silurian Stratigraphy with Devonian to Carboniferous Structural features.

Leader: Dr. Eric Johnson

12th October 

Nenthead: Carboniferous Sedimentary Rocks of the Alston Block

Leaders: Peter Jackson and Brian Young

25th October 

Durham Cathedral: Building Materials

Leader: Brian Young

 

 

2013

23rd June 

Teesdale: Carboniferous Rocks including the Whin Sill

Leader: Brian Young

7th September 

Seaton Sluice and St. Mary's Island, Whitley Bay: Carboniferous Westphalian B Coal Measures

Leader: Gordon Liddle

 

 

2012

12th May 

Ryhope Dene, Seaham and Blast Beach: Permian Magnesium Limestone Sequence

Leader: Andy Lane

23rd June 

Wards Hill and Lordenshaws Hill Fort: Whin Sill Exposure and Lime Kiln

Leaders: Derek Teasdale and Gordon Liddle

7th July

The Sedgwick Geological Trail 

Leader: Dr. John Knight

4th August 

Glacial Geomorphology and Anthropogenic Alteration in Swaledale: Morraines, Mines and Mounds

Leader: Jon Barber

 

2011

8th May

Tynemouth: Upper Carboniferous Deltaic Sediments, Permian Unconformity and the Ninety Fathom Fault

Leader: Gordon Liddle

19th June 

Saltwick Bay, Whitby: Lower and Middle Jurassic Dinosaur Tracks and Fossils

Leader: Dr. Martin Whyte

2nd July 

Upper Tees Drumlins

Leader: Wishart Mitchell

16th July 

Kisdon, Upper Swaledale: Glaciation and Glacier Wastage  

Leader: Dr. Jon Barber

6th August 

The Ferryhill Gap: Magnesian Limestone Escarpment

Leader: Derek Teasdale

17th September

Sunderland's Secret Geology

Leader: Andy Lane

 

 

2010

2nd May 

Cayton Bay, Scarborough: Middle to Upper Jurassic Rocks, the Redcliff Fault and Quaternary Tills

Leader: Dr. Martin Whyte

19th June 

Durham: Permian Yellow Sands and Overlying Marl Slates

Leader: Prof. Maurice Tucker

11th July 

Ingleton, Yorkshire Dales: The Craven Faults and Thornton Force Unconformity

Leader: Gordon Liddle

14th August 

Whitburn Bay, Sunderland: Glacial Sediments

Leader: Derek Teasdale

2nd October 

Nent Valley, Pennines: Carboniferous Cyclothem Deposits

Leader: Brian Young