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This resource is an outline of a field excursion to Thurstaston Hill on the Wirral organised by Prof Dan Faulkner for the Earth Science Teachers’ Association Conference which was hosted by the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Liverpool in September 2024. On this field excursion the sedimentary rocks exposed on Thurstaston Hill were studied along with the faulting and deformation that has affected them. This area shows examples of ‘deformation bands’, where localized deformation has reduced the porosity and permeability and could potentially cause problems for use of the Triassic sandstones as aquifers, or for industrially produced carbon dioxide storage in the East Irish Sea or the southern North Sea.