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Did you go to the @geolassoc.bsky.social Festival of Geology this weekend? Please do share your photos of walks, talks and other events! #festivalofgeology #fog

This was a lot of fun to write for the BBC - the joys of 'urban geology': fossil-hunting and more in the buildings of central London with @pavementgeology.bsky.social. She even showed me a possible dinosaur bone! #urbangeology www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Many thanks to @richardfisher.bsky.social for this lovely article on my #urbangeology rambles! www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

My final #urbangeology walk for this year will take place on 4 October. Reservations and more information on #LondonWalks website at www.walks.com/our-walks/th.... Hope to see you there, this is my favourite walk!

Some photos from yesterday’s guided walk to Hainault Forest Park #londongeology #hainaultforest #walklondon

Another busy weekend! LGP’s stand at Abbey Woods Woodland Festival. Open until 4 pm, come and learn about #londongeology

Come and visit our stall at the Highgate Wood Community Heritage Day today and learn about the geology of the woods and London. More information at www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/commu... #londongeology #highgatewoods

Ordovician Orthoceratite Limestone from Öland in the orangery at Hampton Court Palace. Large orthoceras fossils #urbangeology

Four million tons of London Clay moved in HS2 excavation www.bbc.com/news/article...

Here’s the info for our free, guided walk to Hainault Forest Park with #LondonNaturalHistorySociety on 20 September. Please register at the email in the flyer (or alt text) if you want to join us #londongeology

A recce for our free public walk for #EarthScienceWeek looking at the landscape and geology of Hainault Forest Park. The walk will take place on 20th September - watch this space for more info! #londongeology

Very inspiring indeed!

Blogged: Grove Whitbed, #PortlandStone, full of oysters. #Geology #UrbanGeology #UrbanFossils #Jurassic shutterbugofstone.blogspot.com/2025/08/rock...

A couple of photos from our walk today for #inspirallondon led by myself & fellow LGP member @gaildickerson.bsky.social. The walk - Rivers, Reservoirs, Ice &Sea - looked at the geology and colours in the landscape in East London. We walked from Forest Gate E7 to Wood Street E17 #londongeology

Next Saturday I’m doing a walk with #InspiralLondon and artist @gaildickerson.bsky.social; Rivers, Reservoirs, Ice and Sea. More info and booking details in the link below www.inspirallondon.com/event/rivers...

Our colleagues at the Geologists' Association club for junior geologists: @rockwatch.bsky.social currently have a vacancy for a volunteer Fieldtrip Manager. If you are interested helping to inspire the next generation of junior geologists email [email protected] for more details.

There are a surprising number of fossil trees hidden in London and the small fossil forest at Regent’s Park is one of our London Sites of Geological Interest (#SGI). Check them out in the list below

Paternoster Square was once a really nice piazza in the City of London. Today it’s full of clutter, sheds and poor quality public art #walklondon

The London Museum recently asked me to write about clay pipes for their online blog linked to their exhibition 'Secrets of the Thames'. Read about how I first started pipe-larking, and see some of my favourite photos: www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/mudlarking-clay-tobacco-pipes-thames-foreshore

I recently read Smith & Martill’s paper on pterosaur fossils in Portland Stone. Here’s a bone fragment I found in PS in London and its porosity + thin outer layer have always made me wonder if it could be a pterosaur. Any ideas @nataliajagielska.bsky.social & other palaeo bone folk? #urbangeology

On Saturday! A few places left for an #urbangeology walk in Regent’s Place and Fitzrovia, 14 June from 2-4 pm. This walk is in collaboration with the exhibition ‘The Geological Unconscious’ at Hypha Gallery, Regent’s Place. Booking www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/urban-geol...

Portland Stone is used for buildings all over London. You can spot these fossils on London’s buildings #urbangeology #portlandstone

A few photos from our recent field trip along the River Ravensbourne looking at the results of cleaning and naturalising the river and flood management #riversoflondon #lonfonrivers #londongeology

Premier #Construction - Tideway has announced the successful activation of the new super sewer.  After ten years of construction the last of 21 connections has been made between the original Victorian sewers and the new 25km… https://premierconstructionnews.com/2025/05/29/thames-tideway-tunnel-2/

Take a train between Wapping and Rotherhithe stations and you are travelling under the Thames on the world's first (now oldest) tunnel under a river. Constructed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and father Marc. Originally opened for pedestrians in 1843 and for railway in the 1860s.

An ancient forest at Tripcock Ness in the London Borough of Greenwich. Well-preserved tree stumps and other plant material emerge from clay and silt. The forest is probably at least 3,000 years old. Read more at londongeopartnership.org.uk/wp/wp-conten... #londongeology

I spent an enjoyable couple of hours this afternoon exploring the Sheppy cliffs. I remember reading about them when I was a lad interested in fossil collecting, but it was my first time visiting them. Unfortunately, no great finds, but my eyes aren't what they were 😁 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheppey...

And this fab person, with a research project that make me want to spend time in the pub with them. majaquille.com/london-clay-...

I’m going to be leading an #urbangeology walk in West Euston, London in collaboration with the exhibition The Geological Unconscious at Hypha Studios on 14 June. Sign up at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/urban-geol...

The #urbangeology of London’s war memorials ruthsiddall.co.uk/Walks/WarMem... #veday80 #veday

Processing London clay donated by Golden Earth Studio…my joy was unmatched by others.

Circinaria (Aspicilia) calcarea on limestone plinth, London, England. Heavily mollusc-browsed but still recognisable with its chalk-white thallus and grey prothallus. First record for Kensington Gardens/Hyde Park, ~6th for central London. But surely more to be found on limestone structures in city.

Next Saturday! 10 May. This is my favourite #urbangeology walk in London, from the Monument to the Tower of London, taking in a wide range of rocks minerals and fossils plus a view of the moon. Reserve a place at www.walks.com/our-walks/th...

From inside the Council Chamber, greenish-grey Cipollino marble from the island of Euboea:

Living in a London Chalk quarry! Park Hill Chalk pit in Carshalton. This flinty chalk was burned for lime and knapped flints were used to face nearby cottages. More at londongeopartnership.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...

Lovely sections through the alga Solenopora portlandica on the Wilkins Terrace at #UCL in Bloomsbury, London. This is a patch reef facies in the Upper Jurassic Portland Stone. #urbangeology

Lesnes Abbey Woods has varied geology and fantastic fossils and is a great day out. It’s also easy to get to on the Elizabeth Line. Download our leaflet and map at londongeopartnership.org.uk/informationb...

Next Saturday! An #urbangeology walk with #LondonWalks introducing the engineering and construction materials of the Thames Embankment. Booking and details at www.walks.com/our-walks/bu...

One of the best photos illustrating Ice Age London. These are ice wedge polygons seen as crop marks during the dry summer of 1976. They formed during the Devensian glacial maximum at 50 ka. Located at Whalebone Lane, Romford #londongeology #iceagelondon londongeopartnership.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...

A shout out for the exhibition Earth Unwrapped at Pangolin London which features work by Maja Quille who is one of several artists LGP collaborates with. It’s on until mid June #londongeology

Did you know that there is a small fossil forest in London’s Regent’s Park? These petrified tree stumps were brought here, probably at some time in the late 19th Century from the Purbeck beds on the Isle of Portland. Read more here londongeopartnership.org.uk/wp/wp-conten... #londongeology

The huge, pre-embankment Thames … #londonrivers

Carter and Goldfinger explain the County of London Plan. Published in 1945 with maps, photos and statistics. More in my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-histo...

I’m overwhelmed by the response to this post! Thank you all so much for likes and reposts and welcome to all our new followers!

If you like this account please do give it a share! We are really struggling to get engagement on this platform. London’s geology is more varied than you think and we are here to spread the word, look after and promote London’s geosites #londongeology

Volume 136, Issues 1-2 of Proceedings of the Geologists' Association (PGA) is out now and is a Geological Conservation Review special issue focusing on the Quaternary of Southern England

Ambresbury Banks, Iron Age hill fort in Epping Forest & a scheduled monument since 1923. This early 20th cent postcard image shows a stream running through the site. It is near Epping & beyond our borough boundary, but our collections include sources for the wider Epping Forest area #ImageoftheMonth

First World War practice trenches dug on Berkhamsted Common by the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps. Of 12,000 officers housed in and near the town before embarkation, over half were casualties and 2,200 were killed.