Box Rock Circus - February 7th

Please join us this Thursday at 10.00 a.m. at Box Rock Circus when a representative from Wessex Water is presenting a cheque for the maintenance of the installation.
The Rock Circus is down a lane off the A4 in the village of Box, signposted to the Selwyn Hall, (opposite the Pharmacy). Free parking is available close to the Circus in the Selwyn Hall car park.

Box Rock Circus

Box Rock Circus is planned for the village of Box, Wiltshire. It will be a facility designed to be both educational and recreational. We have been very fortunate so far in that most blocks of stone have been generously donated by the companies linked in Sponsors on the website.
However, your help is needed! We should like another rock block. As you can see, we have Box Stone, Carboniferous Limestone, andesite and a sandstone. A block of metamorphic rock would be ideal but any suggestions will be gratefully received - email contact.

New 'East Mendip Study Centre'

This fantastic new centre will replace the Mendip Quarry Producers' East Mendip Study Centre at Hanson's Whatley Quarry. It is an architect-designed, single storey building next to Wainwright's Moon's Hill Quarry at Stoke St. Michael. It is a carbon neutral building with its own wind-powered generator and a high thermal mass. It includes traditional and sustainable construction materials and is sited alongside former quarry workings which have been restored into a lake and nature reserve.
It has been funded principally by the Somerset Minerals Forum, Somerset County Council's aggregates levy sustainability fund and the Mendip Quarry Producers (MQP), a trade association representing all the major quarrying companies in Somerset.

Brilliant free powerpoints

Have you seen the Geologists' Association's latest venture? If you click on Education in the menu on the GA website and then click on 'Your Planet Earth', you will see that the GA has launched the first set of talks for free use by earth sciences professionals as a basis for engagement and outreach science shows in schools. Some societies may well want to view them too. They are excellent - click here to view the page.

There are five titles so far:-

• Volcanoes
• Dinosaurs
• Natural Hazards
• Plate Tectonics
• Climate Change