Warwickshire RIGS

WGCG and the Warwickshire Museum are currently drafting a Local Geodiversity Action Plan (LGAP).  To view the draft, click below.

The Group also carries out conservation projects funded by Grant Agencies.

Quaternary Geoconservation in South Warwickshire Project

 
Practical conservation takes the form of clearance work on overgrown sites, removing regrowth and weathered rock and erecting interpretation boards. Volunteers are always welcome.

In June 2005 the Group was awarded a grant from English Nature, through Defra’s Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) to carry out a geoconservation project. The project, entitled "Quaternary Geoconservation in South Warwickshire",  involves the geological conservation of four nationally important Pleistocene sand and gravel deposits in Warwickshire, by exposing, stabilising and protecting sections of sediment at each site.  Part of the project will involve monitoring and making amendments to the previous soft sediment conservation project at Wood Farm Quarry.  We will raise public awareness and interest of the sites, particularly within the local communities affected by the quarrying, and actively involve the local community in the project.

For full details of the project click here.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

Another ALSF funded project was started in August 2007 at Mancetter Quarry.  The project seeks to provide the means for the public to understand and enjoy the relationships between the geology and the landscape of the Nuneaton Ridge and the adjacent lowland. This involves re-exposing a section which has yielded an important Cambrian trilobite fauna, constructing an 'exploration area' for the public to search for such fossils, clearing and conserving an exposed section which displays the relationship between the Ordovician sills and the Cambrian shales and erecting interpretation panels.