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Field Geology - Wern Ddu Clay Pit

Location: Wern Ddu Clay Pit (Coed y Werin), Caerphilly, Wales, UK

The site is owned and managed by the Caerphilly Woodlands Trust, and the Wern Ddu Clay Pit is designated as a Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Andrew Green

Senior Geochemist/Basin Modeller

Field Geology

Field Geology - Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK

Location: Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK

Cliffs below Devonshire Head (SY:328-910 to SY:332-914) between Seven Rock Point and Monmouth Beach
Access: Monmouth Beach is accessed via Cobb Road, just to the west of the Boat Building Academy (SY:335-915)

Title: Clay Mineralogy, Organic Matter and Climate of the Blue Lias Formation, Lyme Regis - By…

Andrew Green

Senior Geochemist/Basin Modeller

Field Geology

Field Geology - Hartland Quay, Devon, UK

Location: Hartland Quay, Devon, UK

Hartland Quay Car park (SS:223-247) to Warren Beach (SS:225-249) Access: Warren Beach is accessed via Hartland Quay slipway north of The Wrecker's Retreat Inn (SS:223-248)

Title: Folding without cracking - By Andrew Green

The cliffs north of Hartland Quay present a spectacular array of antiformal and synformal folds, including…

Andrew Green

Senior Geochemist/Basin Modeller

Location Interest

Structural folding and turbidite deposition

Hartland Quay Location Interest

Oil trapping – correlation. Regressive-transgressive sedimentation.

Osmington Mills Location Interest

Organic-rich source rock, cyclic sedimentation

Kimmerdige Bay Location Interest

Petroleum Systems and geostorage - in collaboration with Geo Logica (Portugal).

Nazare Map Strat

Field Trip Brochures

IGI offers logistical organisational support and execution of geological field trips across the south-western part of the U.K. and the Lisbon-Western Country regions of Portugal (in partnership with Portuguese Geo Logica).

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The wide variety of locations available to visit on our field excursions offer the opportunity to cover a range of content: 

- General geology, sedimentology, palaeontology and structural geology both at a site and regional level  

- Petroleum geology and geochemistry

  1. The petroleum system of the Wessex Basin (Dorset & South Devon, UK). "The Jurassic Coast", a World Heritage Site allows a geological "walk through time" through the Wessex Basin from the Triassic to the Cretaceous.  Sites include marine source rocks, reservoir rocks and oil seeps, all set in a dynamic tectonic setting.
  2. The petroleum system of the South Wales Basin (Glamorgan & Monmouthshire, UK). The “South Wales Coal Field”, a region known for its coal and iron deposits, is also the only existing site in the coalfield from which palynomorphs have been obtained, allowing the approximate identification of palynological zones and correlations with European sequences.
  3. Petroleum system of the Lusitanian Basin (Lisbon & Western Country regions, Portugal); looking into rifting, inversion and salt tectonics features – In collaboration with Geo Logica (Portugal). 
    • Underground energy (geothermal, hydrogen) and nuclear storage. Integrating field observations and seismic data in complex tectonic settings – In collaboration with Geo Logica (Portugal).
    • Post-rift magmatism along the West Iberia Margin - Onshore vs offshore magmatic structural styles: a comparison between field and seismic data interpretation of the Western Iberian Margin Relevance for CCUS, natural H2 and O&G – In collaboration with Geo Logica (Portugal).

Who should attend? 

These field trips are suitable for groups ranging from industry geoscience specialists to non-geologists, with the level of detail and the nature of discussions being pitched to meet the particular range of experience of the participants. 

Field trips and courses can be tailored to meet the needs of individual clients, and can include: 

  • Field observations and discussions
  • Team building exercises
  • Classroom training (delivered in a hybrid class-field format), with workshops using relevant geochemical data (e.g. interpretation and basin modelling)
  • Local Museum-Geopark visits

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