Field Work

IGI organises and leads field trips covering the geology of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.  Based on a wide variety of locations (see map), these field excursions (typically 4-5 days) can cover:

1. The general regional geology, sedimentology, structure and fossils of SW England,
2. Petroleum geology in general and the Petroleum Systems of the Wessex Basin in particular
3. Outcrops of oils seeps, oil source rocks and brown coals focussing on bulk, molecular and isotopic organic geochemistry together with 1-D and 2-D basin modelling

For these field excursions, IGI can provide from field leaders only to a complete package including accommodation, meals, transport (round trip from office or airport of arrival), field notes, safety equipment (hard hats, etc).  To provide a more rounded excursion, we also can tie in cultural activities or visits to locations of historical or environmental significance. 

The Hallsannery Field Centre and grounds provide an ideal base for the running of field courses in petroleum and general geology for all levels of achievement.  We particularly cater for team-building programmes for mixed groups from geo-based industries.  The courses are run in an informal manner with accommodation, breakfast, lunch and dinner, all course related material, safety equipment and field transport included.

South West of England, in addition to being the birthplace of the ‘Devonian’ period.  provides some excellent examples of Devonian to Quaternary sedimentation, facies variation, petroleum geology and deformation on view along the extensive coastal and inland exposures.

Field trips may be run on request (minimum 8 persons) or by prior arrangement.

Alternatively successful general geology and team building trips could include Dartmoor granite, peri-glacial geomorphology, Devonian reefs and Permian conglomerates in addition to the above.

Established general courses centre on the Variscan Orogeny and follow a progression of predictable events following the closing of the proto-Tethys ocean:

• Sedimentology of the Culm: Devonian pillow lavas, carbonate reefs and syn-orogenic sedimentation;
• Compressional tectonics: Syn-orogenic burial, folding then faulting;
• Major granitic intrusion, contact metamorphism and mineralisation
• Post-orogenic uplift, course clastic sedimentation, basic volcanics and;
• Post-orogenic erosion, low energy fluvials, lagoons, evaporites,
• Marine transgression, diverse macrofaunas, shelf sedimentation

For further information and details on field work contact IGI on info@igiltd.com

Information on some typical field days in North Devon.

Information on some typical field days In Dorset.

 

Future field course developments

• Over the next few years IGI plans to expand its field work to include a number of international trips:
• The petroleum systems of Tunisia
• The structural development of the East African Rift system