https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scot/rss/ Thu, 9 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/march-2026-newsletter-23-mar-2026 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/march-2026-newsletter-23-mar-2026 Welcome to our March newsletter. Changes to HGS Committee Our Chair Alan Thompson and committee members Andy Leggat, Ann Reynolds and Edward Acton all retired from the HGS committee at the AGM. We thank them all for their input over the years. We held the first meeting of the newly elected trustees/committee members on March 16th. As decided at the AGM, the committee members are Anne Cock Mon, 8 Dec 2025 19:45:05 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/december-2025-newsletter-8-dec-2025 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/december-2025-newsletter-8-dec-2025 NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2025 (updated Jan 31 2026) This is an update newsletter giving details of our winter lectures, our AGM, and our 2026 field trips. HGS AGM and Quiz, 4 March 2026 at Inverness Youth Hostel at 7:30pm. We will hold this as a largely informal get together, and we hope that as many as possible of you will attend in person. We will start with the formal part of the proceedings, Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:26:59 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/september-2025-newsletter-19-oct-2025 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/september-2025-newsletter-19-oct-2025 The Highland Geological Society September 2025 Newsletter Scottish Charity No. SC004427 I hope all members have enjoyed a good summer season with mostly good weather allowing virtually all of our excursions being held in pleasant conditions. This autumn HGS newsletter will give details of forthcoming lectures, a brief outline of proposed field trips for 2026 and end of season report on H Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:06:03 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/march-2025-newsletter-11-mar-2025 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/march-2025-newsletter-11-mar-2025 The Highland Geological Society March 2025 Newsletter Scottish Charity No. SC004427 Welcome to our March newsletter with details of our remaining lectures and information on the summer field trip programme. HGS Committee At the AGM there were some changes to the committee: Ann Reynolds stepped down after 2 years as chair, remaining on the committee; Stephen Young, our previous chair, has Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/october-2024-24-oct-2024 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/october-2024-24-oct-2024 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OCTOBER 2024 NEWSLETTER Scottish Charity No. SC004427 Welcome to our latest newsletter where we give details of the 2024/2025 autumn/winter lectures, some preliminary ideas of 2025 field trips and an illustrated look back at our 2024 field trips. Talks Autumn/Winter 2024/2025 Thanks to Karen Deans for arranging the speakers and talks for the winter season. Talk Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/february-2024-newsletter-13-feb-2024 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/february-2024-newsletter-13-feb-2024 FEBRUARY 2024 NEWSLETTER Welcome to our latest newsletter where we can remind members about our final winter 2024 lecture, detail of our 2024 field trips and preliminary information about 2024/2025 autumn/winter lectures. Dr John Adamson: it was with great regret that the Society learned last November of the death of long time member John Adamson at the age of 87. John was a familiar figure on S Sun, 29 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/october-2023-29-oct-2023 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/october-2023-29-oct-2023 OCTOBER 2023 NEWSLETTER HGS field trips HGS organises excursions for members to see interesting geology in the field, sometimes with a leader who knows the geology and other times self-led, using excursion guides and other information about the geology. This newsletter gives more details about our proposed field trips for 2024, followed by accounts of our 2023 field trips. We would like to enco Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/april-2023-newsletter-30-apr-2023 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/april-2023-newsletter-30-apr-2023 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC004427 April 2023 All As I write this in Eyemouth a happy band of HGS members are enjoying a very interesting variety of Berwickshire and Northumberland geology with Stephen Young our past president achieving a long held ambition in seeing Siccar Point in person. We’ve a varied programme of field trips lined up for this year and alre Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/september-2022-30-sep-2022 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/september-2022-30-sep-2022 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC004427 September 2022 Dear members, Welcome to the HGS autumn newsletter in which we detail our planned activities for the winter lecture season and include brief outlines of proposed field trips during 2023. We hope you’ve all had a pleasant summer with plenty of geologically inclined walks or field trips and we’ve compiled a few Sun, 6 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/march-2022-6-mar-2022 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/march-2022-6-mar-2022 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC004427 March 2022 Dear Members, As spring approaches and the Covid situation slowly improves we can, at last, look forward to a full field trip programme and we hope after two years of frustration our trips will benefit from renewed enthusiasm as we all get to grips with real rocks and not their Zoom and PowerPoint equivalents! Good Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/14-sep-2021 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/14-sep-2021 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC004427 September 2021 Dear Members, We hope everyone is keeping well and with a relatively pleasant summer that you’ve been able to get out and about in the countryside. As you will know we’ve enjoyed a season of talks held on Zoom and we give thanks to HGS members Peter Reynolds (Underground in Assynt), Andy Moffat (Lew Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/28-jun-2021 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/28-jun-2021 Summer Programme 2021: NEWS The Committee met last Friday evening, and after a detailed discussion we concluded that in view of all the current uncertainties we could not yet feel confident about arranging full-scale field trips, at least for the next two months. To fill this gap, we have arranged two more ‘virtual field trips’ using Zoom, and Peter Reynolds and Andy Moffat have v Tue, 2 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/march-2021-2-mar-2021 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/march-2021-2-mar-2021 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC004427 March 2021 Dear Members, We hope everyone is keeping well and that you have enjoyed our winter season of interesting talks. This newsletter is being written with beautiful spring sunshine coming through the window, and even the rocks are beginning to warm up! We still have two Zoom talks to come in the nex Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/december-2020-8-dec-2020 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/december-2020-8-dec-2020 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC004427 December 2020 Dear Members, We hope all of you are keeping well during this Covid pandemic and have had opportunities to do some local walking and maybe geologising. The committee wish all our members a peaceful Christmas and sincerely hope you have a safe and healthy 2021. Talks on Zoom One sm Sat, 23 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/23-may-2020 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/23-may-2020 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC004427 May 2020 Dear Members, It looks as though it will be some time before we are able hold our usual summer field trips and winter lectures again. As a result, and like many other societies, we have been investigating using Zoom to offer suitably ‘socially distanced’ substitutes. Our plan is to offe Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/january-2020-28-jan-2020 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/january-2020-28-jan-2020 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC004427 January 2020 Dear Members, Happy New Year to you all, and to welcome in the year please see our new newsletter which gives details of forthcoming events in 2020. We also have two book reviews prepared by Alan and David for your enjoy Wed, 21 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/21-aug-2019 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/21-aug-2019 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC004427 August 2019 Dear Members, Welcome to our latest newsletter detailing our remaining summer excursions and lectures of the winter season. 2019 25th August – Glen More and Glenelg, Dave Longstaff, HGS 22nd Sept Tue, 4 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/june-2019-newsletter-4-jun-2019 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/june-2019-newsletter-4-jun-2019 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC004427 JUNE 2019 Dear Members, Welcome to our summer and autumn newsletter detailing our remaining summer excursions, lectures of the winter season and a brief description of our field trips so far this year. 2 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/23-feb-2019 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/23-feb-2019 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC0 04427 FEBRUARY 2019 Dear Members, Many thanks to everyone who has renewed their membership subscriptions for the coming year; if you have forgotten, Alan will in touch separately. This is my final missive as I will stand down as Secretary at the AGM later this month but Dave Longstaff will keep you informed of the Society’s activit Wed, 9 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/january-2019-9-jan-2019 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/january-2019-9-jan-2019 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC0 04427 JANUARY 2019 Dear Members, Happy New Year and welcome to what promises to be another busy year for the society. Membership subscriptions are due this month (unchanged at £22 family rate; £15 ordinary rate). If you joined in the last 3 months of 2018 your membership will automatically be extended for this coming year. You Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/august-2018-12-aug-2018 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/august-2018-12-aug-2018 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC0 04427 AUGUST 2018 Dear Members, Please let me know if you are planning on joining either of our remaining excursions this season – the summer seems to be passing remarkably quickly! At the end of this newsletter you will find advance information regarding the 2019 fieldtrip programme. The society has exclusive use of Glebe Barn on E Fri, 29 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/june-2018-news-letter-29-jun-2018 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/june-2018-news-letter-29-jun-2018 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC0 04427 JUNE 2018 Dear Members, Please see below for more details re the day excursion to Glen Roy on Sunday 15th July. Further information about the trip to Ailnack Gorge on Saturday 11th August will follow in due course. The weeklong excursion to Arran went well, despite the rather mixed weather, and the trip to Strontian was most enjoy Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/february-2018-newsletter-12-feb-2018 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/february-2018-newsletter-12-feb-2018 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC004427 FEBRUARY 2018 Dear Members, Many thanks to everyone who has already renewed their subscriptions; if you have yet to pay for 2018, the rates are unchanged at Ordinary membership £15, Family membership £22.50, and Student membership £7.50. Payment can be made by Bank Transfer, Standing Order, by cheque, or you Tue, 9 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/january-2018-newsletter-9-jan-2018 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/january-2018-newsletter-9-jan-2018 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC004427 JANUARY 2018 Dear Members, Many thanks to everyone who supported our lecture programme and excursions during 2017; the coming year promises to be equally busy so Happy New Year and best wishes for 2018. Please note that your Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/september-2017-newsletter-22-sep-2017 https://www.highlandgeologicalsociety.scotnews/september-2017-newsletter-22-sep-2017 THE HIGHLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Scottish Charity No. SC004427 SEPTEMBER 2017 Dear Members, Please check your diaries and see if you can possibly join us for the last excursion of the summer: SUMMER PROGRAMME 2017 NW HIGHLANDS 30th SEP – 1st OCT – Pete Harrison, NW