Liverpool Geological Society

Fossils in Chester...

Did you know that Cheshire used to be underwater? And before that, it was a desert? And before that, a jungle?

Learn about the region’s fascinating geological history in our summer exhibition, Echoes of Ancient Lands and Seas: Fossils from Cheshire, curated by Harriet Williams, our curatorial intern from the University of Liverpool. Opens 20 June 2026 at the Grosvenor Museum.

53rd Herdman Symposium 2026.
The symposium will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday 21st in the Central Teaching Hub, University of Liverpool. LGS will be sponsoring this event and there will be subsidised attendance for LGS members.
Ticket prices:
£18.00 for general admissions
£11.00 for LGS members
£6.00 for University of Liverpool students and A Level students
£0.00 for parents, carers, and leaders of school groups.
A free buffet lunch will be provided to all attendees and is included with the ticket price
Book tickets via this link: https://www.liverpoolguild.org/events/6608/6409/
Further details about the Herdman Conference are available at:
https://geohubliverpool.org.uk/herdman-symposium-2026/

LGS members might be interested in this lecture about Greenland...

Greenland – the land behind the headlines Discover the untold stories of Greenland beyond what you see in the news – a journey into the heart of this unique land.

LGS Members’ Evening

Apologies for the very short notice, but under the existing weather conditions which are causing disruption to local bus and train services, the LGS Members’ Evening which was due to take place on Tuesday 6th January has been cancelled.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c30j94p56d6o

Stelvio national park: Thousands of dinosaur footprints found on Italian mountain The footprints date back some 210 million years and show traces of toes and claws.

If you travel on the Ffestiniog and Welsh Mountain Railway from Caernarfon to Beddgelert, you may catch a glimpse of Pitt’s Head, an outcrop of rock on the right hand side of the train. The rock is said to resemble the profile of William Pitt, the young British Prime Minister. More interestingly for geologists, it gives its name to the Pitts Head Tuff an ignimbrite of Ordovician age (Caradoc to be precise, c.485ma) which can be traced from Nant Ffrancon across Snowdonia to the coast at Criccieth. Its eruption was extraordinarily violent and massive; estimates of its output range up to 25 cubic kilometres.

In hand specimens, the rock often has a distinctive blue-gray hue and shows dark “fiamme” formed by the flattening of pumice fragments.

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Building the James Hutton Deep Time Trail We are raising vital funds for a new Deep Time Trail at Siccar Point to celebrate the life and legacy of James Hutton for his Tercentenary.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5f8c77b0-92bc-40f2-bf21-6793abbe5ffe

In the footsteps of giants - BBC News One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2emnnn4po

'Punk rock' dinosaur with metre-long spikes discovered The animal has come as a surprise to experts, who now have to rethink how these armoured dinosaurs evolved