The Geologists' Association
@geolassoc.bsky.social
Founded in 1858, the Geologists' Association (GA) is a charitable organization that exists for all geologists and earth scientists. Our offices are co-located with those of the Geological Society at Burlington House in central London.
The calendar images are fabulous again this year. Thanks for your support @groundwatermike.bsky.social
Having recently turned the page on November 2025 calendar and found Jonathan Turner's photo of tightly folded Carboniferous rocks at Crackington Haven, it's a timely reminder to get the 2026 calendar, again featuring Jonathan's photo. Fantastic 👍
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The calendar images are fabulous again this year. Thanks for your support @groundwatermike.bsky.social
The deadline for some of our Awards is 15th November and is fast approaching!
There's just time to get your application in for:
● New Researcher's Award
● Geologists' Association Research Awards
● Geologists' Association Meetings Award
More info & how to apply: geologistsassociation.org.uk/awards/
There's just time to get your application in for:
● New Researcher's Award
● Geologists' Association Research Awards
● Geologists' Association Meetings Award
More info & how to apply: geologistsassociation.org.uk/awards/
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The deadline for some of our Awards is 15th November and is fast approaching!
There's just time to get your application in for:
● New Researcher's Award
● Geologists' Association Research Awards
● Geologists' Association Meetings Award
More info & how to apply: geologistsassociation.org.uk/awards/
There's just time to get your application in for:
● New Researcher's Award
● Geologists' Association Research Awards
● Geologists' Association Meetings Award
More info & how to apply: geologistsassociation.org.uk/awards/
The results of the GA 2025 Photo Competition have been announced & the three prize winners are:
🥇Belinda DiQuinzio for Ice-scoured Bedrock, Cuillin Range, Scotland
🥈Jonathan Turner for Serpentinite Boulders, Kynance Cove, Cornwall
🥉Gary Eisenhauer for Rock Formation in the Siloli Desert, Bolivia
🥇Belinda DiQuinzio for Ice-scoured Bedrock, Cuillin Range, Scotland
🥈Jonathan Turner for Serpentinite Boulders, Kynance Cove, Cornwall
🥉Gary Eisenhauer for Rock Formation in the Siloli Desert, Bolivia
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The results of the GA 2025 Photo Competition have been announced & the three prize winners are:
🥇Belinda DiQuinzio for Ice-scoured Bedrock, Cuillin Range, Scotland
🥈Jonathan Turner for Serpentinite Boulders, Kynance Cove, Cornwall
🥉Gary Eisenhauer for Rock Formation in the Siloli Desert, Bolivia
🥇Belinda DiQuinzio for Ice-scoured Bedrock, Cuillin Range, Scotland
🥈Jonathan Turner for Serpentinite Boulders, Kynance Cove, Cornwall
🥉Gary Eisenhauer for Rock Formation in the Siloli Desert, Bolivia
One day to go before the 2025 Festival of Geology!
Join us at Burlington House tomorrow from 10.30am for a free family-friendly day of all things geological
View the historic apartments of @geolsoc.bsky.social and browse a fantastic range of exhibitors
geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
Join us at Burlington House tomorrow from 10.30am for a free family-friendly day of all things geological
View the historic apartments of @geolsoc.bsky.social and browse a fantastic range of exhibitors
geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
One day to go before the 2025 Festival of Geology!
Join us at Burlington House tomorrow from 10.30am for a free family-friendly day of all things geological
View the historic apartments of @geolsoc.bsky.social and browse a fantastic range of exhibitors
geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
Join us at Burlington House tomorrow from 10.30am for a free family-friendly day of all things geological
View the historic apartments of @geolsoc.bsky.social and browse a fantastic range of exhibitors
geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
Get ready to discover and explore because our club for junior geologists: @rockwatch.bsky.social is heading to the Festival of Geology on Saturday 1st November 2025 at @geolsoc.bsky.social Burlington House, London — and we want YOU to come along!
Full details: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
Full details: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
October 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Get ready to discover and explore because our club for junior geologists: @rockwatch.bsky.social is heading to the Festival of Geology on Saturday 1st November 2025 at @geolsoc.bsky.social Burlington House, London — and we want YOU to come along!
Full details: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
Full details: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
Michael McKimm was born in Belfast and grew up near the Giant’s Causeway. A graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme, he won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa in 2010. He now lives in London an he works for the Geological Society Library
October 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Michael McKimm was born in Belfast and grew up near the Giant’s Causeway. A graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme, he won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa in 2010. He now lives in London an he works for the Geological Society Library
We're really excited that author @deanrlomax.bsky.social & illustrator @bobnichollsart.bsky.social will be joining us at the Festival of Geology on Saturday to tell us about their latest book: The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs +Q&A & book signing
More info: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/#di...
More info: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/#di...
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
We're really excited that author @deanrlomax.bsky.social & illustrator @bobnichollsart.bsky.social will be joining us at the Festival of Geology on Saturday to tell us about their latest book: The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs +Q&A & book signing
More info: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/#di...
More info: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/#di...
Along rugged coastlines, through ancient forests and into the geological bedrock of Scotland’s wild places, Expressing The Earth embarks on a cinematic journey into Geopoetics - the philosophy developed by Kenneth White, which seeks a deeper connection between the mind, language and the living world
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Along rugged coastlines, through ancient forests and into the geological bedrock of Scotland’s wild places, Expressing The Earth embarks on a cinematic journey into Geopoetics - the philosophy developed by Kenneth White, which seeks a deeper connection between the mind, language and the living world
We're pleased to announce The Rock Showman will be our Master of Ceremonies at the Festival of Geology on Saturday, with his engaging and entertaining mix of science and circus.
See you at Burlington House from 10.30am!
For more information visit our website: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
See you at Burlington House from 10.30am!
For more information visit our website: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
October 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We're pleased to announce The Rock Showman will be our Master of Ceremonies at the Festival of Geology on Saturday, with his engaging and entertaining mix of science and circus.
See you at Burlington House from 10.30am!
For more information visit our website: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
See you at Burlington House from 10.30am!
For more information visit our website: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
Join us at the Festival of Geology to see the winning images from the GA 2025 Photo Competition!
A selection of the best pictures will be on display and have also been used to create the GA 2026 calendar (£6 +p&p)
Buy yours at the Festival or online: geologistsassociation.org.uk/ga_shop/#!/2...
A selection of the best pictures will be on display and have also been used to create the GA 2026 calendar (£6 +p&p)
Buy yours at the Festival or online: geologistsassociation.org.uk/ga_shop/#!/2...
October 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Join us at the Festival of Geology to see the winning images from the GA 2025 Photo Competition!
A selection of the best pictures will be on display and have also been used to create the GA 2026 calendar (£6 +p&p)
Buy yours at the Festival or online: geologistsassociation.org.uk/ga_shop/#!/2...
A selection of the best pictures will be on display and have also been used to create the GA 2026 calendar (£6 +p&p)
Buy yours at the Festival or online: geologistsassociation.org.uk/ga_shop/#!/2...
Join Frankie Dunn from @morethanadodo.bsky.social to hear about her research into the Ediacaran Period, and the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, which occurred just before the Cambrian Explosion ~520 and 550 million years ago when the blueprints for the animal phyla were laid down.
October 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Join Frankie Dunn from @morethanadodo.bsky.social to hear about her research into the Ediacaran Period, and the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, which occurred just before the Cambrian Explosion ~520 and 550 million years ago when the blueprints for the animal phyla were laid down.
Would you like to know more about the last dinosaurs to walk in Britain and how they were discovered?
Join experienced fossil hunter Steve Friedrich for one of his workshops at the FREE Festival of Geology on Saturday November 1st at The Geological Society Burlington House in London.
Join experienced fossil hunter Steve Friedrich for one of his workshops at the FREE Festival of Geology on Saturday November 1st at The Geological Society Burlington House in London.
October 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Would you like to know more about the last dinosaurs to walk in Britain and how they were discovered?
Join experienced fossil hunter Steve Friedrich for one of his workshops at the FREE Festival of Geology on Saturday November 1st at The Geological Society Burlington House in London.
Join experienced fossil hunter Steve Friedrich for one of his workshops at the FREE Festival of Geology on Saturday November 1st at The Geological Society Burlington House in London.
Interesting spotlight on Drumheller in Canada and the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Drumheller: Canada's tiny town of huge monsters
Drumheller in the Badlands of Alberta, Canada, is the self-proclaimed "World Capital of Dinosaurs". That's because it's home to some of the most important fossil discoveries ever made.
www.bbc.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Interesting spotlight on Drumheller in Canada and the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
How was the Jurassic Coast built?
Saskia Elliott will take us on a journey through 185 million years of Earth’s history packed into one 95 mile stretch of southern England!
Join us on Saturday 1st November from 10.30am. See the website for full details: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
Saskia Elliott will take us on a journey through 185 million years of Earth’s history packed into one 95 mile stretch of southern England!
Join us on Saturday 1st November from 10.30am. See the website for full details: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
How was the Jurassic Coast built?
Saskia Elliott will take us on a journey through 185 million years of Earth’s history packed into one 95 mile stretch of southern England!
Join us on Saturday 1st November from 10.30am. See the website for full details: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
Saskia Elliott will take us on a journey through 185 million years of Earth’s history packed into one 95 mile stretch of southern England!
Join us on Saturday 1st November from 10.30am. See the website for full details: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
Want to find out what it's like to unearth an Ice Age mammoth?
Want to hear about the incredible Ice Age discoveries behind the documentary "Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard" and meet the people who made the discovery?
Join us on Saturday 1st November: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
Want to hear about the incredible Ice Age discoveries behind the documentary "Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard" and meet the people who made the discovery?
Join us on Saturday 1st November: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
October 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Want to find out what it's like to unearth an Ice Age mammoth?
Want to hear about the incredible Ice Age discoveries behind the documentary "Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard" and meet the people who made the discovery?
Join us on Saturday 1st November: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
Want to hear about the incredible Ice Age discoveries behind the documentary "Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard" and meet the people who made the discovery?
Join us on Saturday 1st November: geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival/
Fascinating article spotlighting urban geology in London with Ruth Siddall of @pavementgeology.bsky.social
Ruth has led urban geology walks in London for the GA and has several free self-guided walking routes to download on her website: ruthsiddall.co.uk/UrbanGeology...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Ruth has led urban geology walks in London for the GA and has several free self-guided walking routes to download on her website: ruthsiddall.co.uk/UrbanGeology...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'Urban geology': How to find fossils (and other discoveries) in your city's buildings
If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and history, from fascinating fossils to unusual rocks.
www.bbc.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Fascinating article spotlighting urban geology in London with Ruth Siddall of @pavementgeology.bsky.social
Ruth has led urban geology walks in London for the GA and has several free self-guided walking routes to download on her website: ruthsiddall.co.uk/UrbanGeology...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Ruth has led urban geology walks in London for the GA and has several free self-guided walking routes to download on her website: ruthsiddall.co.uk/UrbanGeology...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Join us from 10.30am on Saturday 1st November 2025 at @geolsoc.bsky.social Burlington House in London for the Festival of Geology, organised in conjunction with our colleagues at @rockwatch.bsky.social. A FREE family-friendly day of talks, workshops and activities, including:
October 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Join us from 10.30am on Saturday 1st November 2025 at @geolsoc.bsky.social Burlington House in London for the Festival of Geology, organised in conjunction with our colleagues at @rockwatch.bsky.social. A FREE family-friendly day of talks, workshops and activities, including:
A fascinating article by BBC News about the Dewars Farm Quarry dinosaur trackway excavation by scientists from across the UK and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, including some fabulous computer generated animation. Great stuff!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
A fascinating article by BBC News about the Dewars Farm Quarry dinosaur trackway excavation by scientists from across the UK and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, including some fabulous computer generated animation. Great stuff!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Our SchoolRocks! boxes have received some fabulous feedback from schools and home educators recently
We are now taking bookings for our Year 3 Rock & Fossil boxes and amazing Year 6 Evolution boxes for the winter 25/26 term
Order yours now: email schoolrocks@geologistsassociation.org.uk
We are now taking bookings for our Year 3 Rock & Fossil boxes and amazing Year 6 Evolution boxes for the winter 25/26 term
Order yours now: email schoolrocks@geologistsassociation.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Our SchoolRocks! boxes have received some fabulous feedback from schools and home educators recently
We are now taking bookings for our Year 3 Rock & Fossil boxes and amazing Year 6 Evolution boxes for the winter 25/26 term
Order yours now: email schoolrocks@geologistsassociation.org.uk
We are now taking bookings for our Year 3 Rock & Fossil boxes and amazing Year 6 Evolution boxes for the winter 25/26 term
Order yours now: email schoolrocks@geologistsassociation.org.uk
Join us at 18.00 BST on Friday 10th October at Burlington House in London for our next free talk - Thames Through Time: Cornish Flavour by Ian Mercer
This will be a hybrid event: in-person and online via Zoom. For those attending in person, tea will be served in the Lower Library from 17.30 BST
This will be a hybrid event: in-person and online via Zoom. For those attending in person, tea will be served in the Lower Library from 17.30 BST
October 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Join us at 18.00 BST on Friday 10th October at Burlington House in London for our next free talk - Thames Through Time: Cornish Flavour by Ian Mercer
This will be a hybrid event: in-person and online via Zoom. For those attending in person, tea will be served in the Lower Library from 17.30 BST
This will be a hybrid event: in-person and online via Zoom. For those attending in person, tea will be served in the Lower Library from 17.30 BST
The GA 2025 Annual Conference at Keele University is finally over after a weekend full of interesting and varied talks, displays and field trips.
Thank you to NSGGA - North Staffs Group of the Geologists' Association and everyone involved in organising and delivering such a packed programme!
Thank you to NSGGA - North Staffs Group of the Geologists' Association and everyone involved in organising and delivering such a packed programme!
October 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The GA 2025 Annual Conference at Keele University is finally over after a weekend full of interesting and varied talks, displays and field trips.
Thank you to NSGGA - North Staffs Group of the Geologists' Association and everyone involved in organising and delivering such a packed programme!
Thank you to NSGGA - North Staffs Group of the Geologists' Association and everyone involved in organising and delivering such a packed programme!
Join us tomorrow at @keeleuniversity.bsky.social for our 2025 Conference: The Geology and Natural Resources of North Staffordshire
GA members/affiliates £45, non-members £55, students £10
Just turn up on the day: registration opens 08.30 BST
Full details: geologistsassociation.org.uk/conferences/
GA members/affiliates £45, non-members £55, students £10
Just turn up on the day: registration opens 08.30 BST
Full details: geologistsassociation.org.uk/conferences/
October 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Join us tomorrow at @keeleuniversity.bsky.social for our 2025 Conference: The Geology and Natural Resources of North Staffordshire
GA members/affiliates £45, non-members £55, students £10
Just turn up on the day: registration opens 08.30 BST
Full details: geologistsassociation.org.uk/conferences/
GA members/affiliates £45, non-members £55, students £10
Just turn up on the day: registration opens 08.30 BST
Full details: geologistsassociation.org.uk/conferences/
Welcome to October 2025 with a colourful image of the granite coastline in eastern Tasmania from the Geologists' Association 2025 Calendar taken by Howard Anderson, which was an entry in the GA 2024 photographic competition.
October 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Welcome to October 2025 with a colourful image of the granite coastline in eastern Tasmania from the Geologists' Association 2025 Calendar taken by Howard Anderson, which was an entry in the GA 2024 photographic competition.
There's still time to sign up to attend the GA 2025 Conference on Saturday 4th October at Keele University campus
Join us for a full day of talks, posters and displays on the subject: Geology and Natural Resources of North Staffordshire
Book here: geologistsassociation.org.uk/event-bookin...
Join us for a full day of talks, posters and displays on the subject: Geology and Natural Resources of North Staffordshire
Book here: geologistsassociation.org.uk/event-bookin...
October 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
There's still time to sign up to attend the GA 2025 Conference on Saturday 4th October at Keele University campus
Join us for a full day of talks, posters and displays on the subject: Geology and Natural Resources of North Staffordshire
Book here: geologistsassociation.org.uk/event-bookin...
Join us for a full day of talks, posters and displays on the subject: Geology and Natural Resources of North Staffordshire
Book here: geologistsassociation.org.uk/event-bookin...
Great photo @hypocentre.bsky.social
Fingers crossed for good weather!
Book your conference/field trip place here: geologistsassociation.org.uk/event-bookin...
Fingers crossed for good weather!
Book your conference/field trip place here: geologistsassociation.org.uk/event-bookin...
September 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Great photo @hypocentre.bsky.social
Fingers crossed for good weather!
Book your conference/field trip place here: geologistsassociation.org.uk/event-bookin...
Fingers crossed for good weather!
Book your conference/field trip place here: geologistsassociation.org.uk/event-bookin...