First Open Afternoon of the year at the Fossil Grove! Sunday 21st April 12-4. Experts on hand, children's activities

The 'Bubble' - a giant isoclinally folded glacial megaclast in the Neoproterozoic Great Breccia of the Port Askaig Formation on Holy Isle, Garvellachs on field trips this week with the Edinburgh and Glasgow geological societies.

Fossil grove open tomorrow afternoon 12 to 4. Come along to see your trees and hear about the exciting plans to renovate the building and conserve these unique and ancient fossils.

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Great day out on the garvellachs with the ECORD workshop field trip. Hammering in the 'golden carrot' at the possible base cryogenian! Lots of great glacial features too.

Fossil grove open again tomorrow afternoon 12 to 4. Come along to see the trees and hear about the exciting plans to renovate the building and conserve these unique and ancient fossils.

We're excited to kick off this year's Festival with a launch event hosted by SGT, Kelvin Hall & The Hunterian. Join us on August 28th for “Women on the Rocks”, where we’ll highlight some of the pioneering women who have made significant contributions to Scottish geology 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎉

It’s been quite a week for Scottish rocks. First the revelation that the Orcadian Basin was the source of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone and today that the Garvellachs have a unique record of Snowball Earth! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Good to see the garvellachs, snowball earth and the golden carrot in the news bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… doi.org/10.1144/jgs202… theguardian.com/science/articl…

A rock formation spanning Ireland and Scotland is a rare record of “snowball Earth”, a crucial moment in planetary history when the globe was covered in ice, finds a new study led by PhD candidate Elias Rugen and Prof Graham Shields EarthSciences UCL UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/aug/…

New paper alert 🚨 Very happy to publish this paper from my PhD where we provide the first age constraints for the Port Askaig Formation ‘snowball Earth’ deposit. 1/3

Happy to have played a (small) part in this excellent research. Well done Elias!

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A wee bit of bedtime reading! New 5th edition (in colour!). A must for anyone with an interest in Scottish geology (that's all geologists btw)

The Geological Society of Glasgow's first talk of the session will be on September 12th at 7pm - and is a presentation by St Andrew's students whose project in Greenland was the recipient of a GSG grant. Venue Room 407, Boyd Orr Building, University Avenue G12 8QQ. All Welcome.

Next lecture at the Geological Society of Glasgow: Thursday 10th October 2024. Prof. Stuart Hazeldine, University of Edinburgh. “Climate and carbon, control or catastrophe” Room 407 of the Boyd Orr Building. All Welcome. Free

I'm leaving X and moving over to bluesky. You'll find me at @davidjwebster.bsky.social. Geological Society of Glasgow also now on bluesky too.

Join Dr Katie Strang, Curator of Mineralogy and Petrology at The Hunterian, to discover the 330-million-year history of the University of Glasgow’s Gilbert Scott Building. Thursday 9th October 7pm. Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre