Exploring Carboniferous Limestone: Join Our Rockwatch Field Trip!
Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Location: Somerset Earth Science Centre, Mendip Hills, Somerset Are you ready for an unforgettable adventure into the depths of Carboniferous Somerset? Join us on Wednesday, August 14th, as we embark on a journey to explore the marvellous Mendip Hills, delving into the captivating world of Carboniferous limestone. What to Expect Our day begins at the purpose-built...
Win a FREE Family Ticket to Dinosaurs in the Park!
We’ve teamed up with Dinosaurs in the Park to bring you an exclusive Rockwatch VIP Family Ticket Give Away (worth £40). Dinosaurs in the Park is an exciting experience where you come face to face with 40 life-sized animatronic dinosaur models as you immerse yourself in what life was like for these gigantic prehistoric titans. We’re giving a lucky Rockwatcher the chance to win a family ticket for any of the Manchester dates...
We’ve removed the Booking Deadline for the 5-Day trip to Dorset
Good news! We’ve removed the booking deadline on the 5-Day residential field trip to Dorset so that even more people can still book to join us! Those of you who organise events will know that there is a need to have booking deadlines in place in order to meet any venue terms and conditions around numbers and cancellations. Since we have more than met the minimum number of bookings needed for the event to run, we’re now...
Book onto the Rockwatch Summer Field Trips Now!
Rockwatch Summer Field Trips are open for bookings and we’d love you to join us for some geology family fun! Every summer we organise a range of different field trips around the country to give young geologists an insight into the range of places and activities you can do as a geologist. We visit coastlines and quarries in search of fossils, rocks and minerals, we study local buildings, walls and pavements that make up our local...
Happy National Fossil Day!
Happy National Fossil Day! Here’s a recent fossil sent in by Rockwatcher, Ronnie for identification which is likely to be a part of a bivalve shell, Trigonia costata, named by chemist and palaeontologist James Parkinson whose name lives on in Parkinson’s disease. It is a species that appeared first in the Toarcian Stage (end of the Early Jurassic), but persisted into the Middle Jurassic – which is probably the age of...