Gloucestershire Geology Trust
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The Gloucestershire Geology Trust is a non-profit organisation, all of their money comes from various grants, funds, charitable trusts and foundations. Recent and current funding opportunities have allowed them to undertake work programmes and initiatives that have made a significant impact on Geodiversity
in Gloucestershire
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Gloucestershire Geology Trust (GGT) is a registered charity, a founder member of The Geology Trusts and one of the leading geoconservation organisations in the country. The Trust was set up in 1992, with the aim of surveying and recording Regionally Important Geological Sites (RIGS).
GGT also carry out conservation work on important geological sites; we hold the Geological Records Centre for the county; produce a variety of publications; run a highly successful Rock & Fossil Roadshow programme and offer a variety of events throughout the year.
In addition to these services, they are able to deliver advice and information relating to geology and geoconservation matters, as well as practical SSSI and RIGS geoconservation work. GGT has become the key point of Specialist Earth Heritage Conservation advice in the county of Gloucestershire.
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Geodiversity
Geodiversity is the variety of earth materials, forms and processes that constitute and shape the Earth, either the whole or a specific part of it. Relevant materials include minerals, rocks, sediments, fossils, soils and water. Forms may comprise folds, faults, landforms and other expressions of...
in Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
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Gloucestershire Geology Trust (GGT) is a registered charity, a founder member of The Geology Trusts and one of the leading geoconservation organisations in the country. The Trust was set up in 1992, with the aim of surveying and recording Regionally Important Geological Sites (RIGS).
GGT also carry out conservation work on important geological sites; we hold the Geological Records Centre for the county; produce a variety of publications; run a highly successful Rock & Fossil Roadshow programme and offer a variety of events throughout the year.
In addition to these services, they are able to deliver advice and information relating to geology and geoconservation matters, as well as practical SSSI and RIGS geoconservation work. GGT has become the key point of Specialist Earth Heritage Conservation advice in the county of Gloucestershire.
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