Below are more samples of photographs illustrating the geology of Northern England as well as occasionally members of N.E.G.S. Please be patient- some photos take a couple of minutes to download.

Some Open University Geol. Soc. and North Eastern Geol. Soc. members with Dr. Steve Maclean of the Hancock Museum (far right) about to enjoy an excursion around Newcastle upon Tyne looking at exotic building stones. (Sep. 2001)

      

A young lad willingly (or unknowingly?) poses for scale next to an upper Carboniferous fossil tree (Sigillaria sp.) in Stanhope Parish Churchyard, Co. Durham. Notice the horizontal roots typical of swamp conditions.

Some quarries in Co. Durham, e.g. Quarrington, expose the Permian Marl Slate in which well preserved fossil fish can be found. Many of them are found curled up indicating that anoxic conditions caused their death.

Joy, proudly holding a gastropod (Bourgetia) from the Upper Jurassic reef limestone at Betton Farm quarry, near Scarborough, Yorkshire.

Killhope Lead Mining Centre near Nenthead on the Stanhope-Alston road, Co. Durham. The water wheel was used to drive the machinery which extracted the lead from the ore.