UK Field Trip - White Cliffs of Kingsgate
Schedule
Sat Jun 06 2026 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Kingsgate Bay | Broadstairs, EN
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Leader: Richard HubbardStart: 10.00am at the Captain Digby, Kingsgate, Whiteness Rd, Broadstairs, CT10 3QH. Free car parking on site. Stop for lunch 1pm; bring packed lunch or purchase food from the Captain Digby. Finish: 4pm.
Kingsgate exposes a 40m high section of Santonian to Campanian white chalk in eroded cliffs. It is unusually thin, pure and soft, only buried to ~500m over the Thanet Anticline. It is fossiliferous, structured and strongly jointed with an Ice Age dry valley overprint. Please come prepared for walking over the slippery intertidal chalk reef.
Guidebooks: The Smugglers Trail: Geology of the Thanet Coastline from Broadstairs to Cliftonville, Richard Hubbard & Geoff Downer (2021). £6 for GA Members, £8 for non-members, available from the GA Online Shop: https://geologistsassociation.org.uk/ga_shop/#!/the-smugglers-trail-geology-of-the-thanet-coastline-from-broadstairs-to-cliftonville.
White Cliffs of Kingsgate, Richard & Tina Hubbard (2022), Kent Field Club. Available on the day.
GA Field Meetings are open to GA members only until 4 weeks before the date when any remaining places are open to non members.
Registration Fee: £5 GA Members / £15 non-member
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