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ESSEX FIELD CLUB GEOLOGY GROUP
ANNUAL REPORT 1975
We are pleased once again to report that
the Group had another successful year.
The presentation of the Davidson Award at
the Annual General Meeting of the Group was to
Mr. Richard Howard. This was the first time
the award has been made to a young member of
the Group.
Due to difficulties in obtaining permission
to visit quarries in the Luton and Bedford
areas, the April meeting had to be cancelled at
short notice. It was also decided that, owing
to the continuing rises in hotel costs, etc.,
the Whitsun Weekend Field Trip, an annual event,
would not be held.
To compensate for the loss of the Whitsun
trip, a meeting was held in June in south
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, being extended
for an extra day for those attending who
wished to stay. The visit started by looking
at the Magnesian Limestone at Kimberley and
later noting the escarpment it forms over-
looking the Coal Measures of the Erewash Valley.
At Eastwood, the Coal Measures yielded a number
of plant remains. The Carboniferous Limestone
was inspected at Crich and despite the rival
attraction of the Tramway Museum, a wide
variety of fossils were found. Ambergate was
visited for goniatites, but the specimens
proved rather poor, so the party returned to
Eastwood and the Coal Measures.
In contrast, in June, Pleistocene (Ice
Age) deposits were inspected. At Marks Tey,
the Hoxnian varved clays were noted, but as
the underlying Anglian till (boulder clay)
cannot be seen at this site, the party moved