Residential Excursion Programme
Residential excursions 2013
The Scandinavian Caledonides in southwestern Norway
Leader: Dr Simon Cuthbert
Field days: Saturday 22nd, Sunday 23rd, Monday 24th June, 2013
The focus will be on the spectacular scenic coastal area around Nordfjord, near Måløy, exploring gneisses, eclogites, mantle peridotites, an ophiolite and the Middle Devonian sedimentary intramontane basins of the Scandinavian Caledonide orogen. The dates given are for the trip itself – participants would have to spend a day each side travelling independently to the meeting place at Måløy. (The coastal fast ferries arrive there direct from Bergen, which can be reached by air direct from Aberdeen, or indirectly from Glasgow via London or Amsterdam.) A very approximate cost will be £650, which excludes the cost of travel to the field base and evening meals, but includes travel and accommodation during the trip. Final costs will depend on numbers and will be published in due course. Party numbers (excluding leader) will be restricted to seventeen. Please note that travel in the field area will be by minibus driven by the leader and one other suitably qualified party member.
We would like to get an indication of interest in this trip, so if you would like to join it, or wish to have further details, please e-mail the residential excursion secretary.
Ben Lawers Synform and Ben Lui Fold
Leaders: Dr John Mendum (BGS) and Dr Graham Leslie (BGS)
Field days: Saturday 21st, Sunday 22nd, Monday 23rd September, 2013
The trip will be to the Loch Tay area, where we will investigate the Ben Lawers Synform and the Ben Lui Fold. Accommodation will be B&B or dinner, B&B, in Killin or Lochearnhead. We will aim to arrive at our acccommodation in time for an evening meal on Friday 20th September and to travel home on the afternoon of Monday 23rd September.
We would like to have an indication of interest in this trip; so if you would like to join it, or wish to have further details, please e-mail the residential excursion secretary.