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| Geodiversity and Geoconservation in South Yorkshire |
Having
set the wheels in motion to undertake a close examination of the various
building stones used in the construction of St. Helen’s church in Treeton - as
well as other old parish churches in South Yorkshire - I
looked forward to my next meeting with the Sheffield U3A Geology Group.
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| Preparing the talk |
The itinerary
for this year’s field trips looks very promising and gives me another opportunity
to develop my interests in Geotourism and, on this occasion, I was
particularly interested in the illustrated talk that would be given by the Sheffield Area Geology Trust.
I was
curious to know a little more about the geology of Sheffield, having already spent much of my
working life surveying a wide variety of sites in the other boroughs of South Yorkshire - in Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley.
Although
I know the city of Sheffield quite well, and have surveyed many of the
geological sites that fall within the boundaries of the Peak District National
Park, I haven’t looked at the geology within the city boundaries in any detail.
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| Nether Edge Bowling Club |
Over 25 members of the
group turned up at Nether Edge Bowling Club – on a very wet day – to listen to
a very well prepared and informative illustrated talk that gave me, at least, a
much better insight into the structural geology of the Sheffield region than I had had before.
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| The geology and river drainage systems in South Yorkshire |
