{"id":5212,"date":"2018-06-25T14:50:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2023-06-13T08:05:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:05:44","slug":"geology-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2018\/06\/geology-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Geology Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July the President of the Geopark, Chris Darmon, is leading two guided walks. The first is on the Malvern Hills, and the second takes in the Woolhope Dome in Herefordshire, the latest addition to the Geopark.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4648\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Malvern-Hills.-View-north-over-north-Hill-and-beyond-towards-the-Abberley-Hills-ridge-line.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4648\" class=\"wp-image-4648\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Malvern-Hills.-View-north-over-north-Hill-and-beyond-towards-the-Abberley-Hills-ridge-line.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Malvern-Hills.-View-north-over-north-Hill-and-beyond-towards-the-Abberley-Hills-ridge-line.jpg 640w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Malvern-Hills.-View-north-over-north-Hill-and-beyond-towards-the-Abberley-Hills-ridge-line-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Malvern-Hills.-View-north-over-north-Hill-and-beyond-towards-the-Abberley-Hills-ridge-line-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Malvern-Hills.-View-north-over-north-Hill-and-beyond-towards-the-Abberley-Hills-ridge-line-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North and End Hills, Malverns<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Fabulous Malvern Hills<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday 21st July<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come join us for a day in the Malvern Hills! &nbsp;There\u2019s nowhere finer than this for day of discovery in the very heart of the Abberley &amp; Malvern Hills during the Annual GeoFest. &nbsp;As President of the Geopark, I want to show you some of our fine Precambrian and Silurian rocks. You\u2019ll see ancient igneous rocks, some great landscape and a Silurian limestone &#8211; you might even catch a glimpse of a trilobite!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meeting: Malvern Hills GeoCentre, Wyche, Malvern (WR13 6PJ) at 10:30am. Please bring packed lunch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geology of the Woolhope Dome, Herefordshire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monday 23rd July<\/p>\n<p>This Silurian inlier is now part of an extended Abberley &amp; Malvern Hills Geopark. &nbsp;It features folded and faulted Ludlovian rocks including both limestones and shales. &nbsp;These are fossiliferous and of great interest. &nbsp;You\u2019ve probably seen the Woolhope Dome from many miles away, now you can get up close and personal with it!<\/p>\n<p>Meeting: Swardon Quarry picnic site, Nr. Mordiford (Grid Ref. SO 578385) at 10.30&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Price is \u00a310.00 per person or \u00a325.00 for a family (1 or &nbsp;2 adults and up to 3 chlidren)<\/p>\n<p>To book tel: 0114 2455746<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July the President of the Geopark, Chris Darmon, is leading two guided walks. The first is on the Malvern Hills, and the second takes in the Woolhope Dome in Herefordshire, the latest addition to the Geopark.<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North and End Hills, Malverns<\/p>\n<p>The Fabulous Malvern Hills<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 21st July<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come join us for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[192,174,193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5214,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions\/5214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}