Gorgeous weather, in the west end on other business, and nothing better to do. That’s right; it’s time to give Fossil Grove another try.
This time we checked the opening times, made sure that there were no public holidays on (not even Glasgow City Council could use Oak Apple Day as an excuse surely) and even [...]
Continue reading about Fossil Grove 3: This time it’s Personal
Everyone has their favourite tracks for listening to on field trips while driving to distant locations, here’re the tracklists from a couple of CDs I put together for an upcoming jaunt:
A couple of months ago an e-mail was sent round to the second and third year students to see if anyone was interested in doing a 7-week lab project over the summer funded by Nuffield Science Bursaries. Since I enjoy practical chemistry (and we’d had precious little Chemistry so far in the Earth Science course) [...]
The Accretionary Wedge is a monthly geo-blog event where a bunch of bloggers post their take on the question of the month [Details Here]. This month, I thought I’d have a go, answering the following question:
“Where and when would you most like to visit to witness and analyse an event in Earth’s history?” Suppose you [...]
So, after establishing the actual opening times of fossil grove [pdf leaflet]:
Open Thursday–Monday 10am–4pm, late March–late September
I decided to give it another go. So, with Jono in tow we walked out from the Transport Museum to Fossil Grove (approx 1.8 miles on a lovely day).
Jono came over for a visit today and we decided to indulge in a little visit to yet another of Glasgows free museums. This time, the Museum of Transport. It was a decent way to waste a couple of hours, with lots of examples of old buses, bikes, cars and trains to look at, as [...]
Thought I’d share a list of my webcomic recommendations for anyone who’s interested. Anyone have any suggestions for me to check out?
April 11th was our last day of fieldwork on Arran, the 12th was spent travelling back to Glasgow (where I promptly locked myself out of my flat on Easter Sunday – but that’s a whole other story, involving much more swearing and self recrimination).
10:10 AM Apr 12th : Packed up and heading for the ferry [...]
Collected Tweets from April 11th. Measuring Dyke thicknesses along a section of coastline at Kildonan to calculate crustal extension. (Again; RJ is Me, HS is Hazel). The weather was truly gorgeous.
8:40 AM Apr 11th : Up and ready for a day in the field. I think we’re measuring wide dykes today. – RJ
I’d apologise for [...]
Collected Tweets from April 10th. Walking round from Blackwaterfoot looking at various Paleogene intrusions (Dykes and a Sill), walking across the Triassic/Permian boundary to King’s Cave. (Again; RJ is Me, HS is Hazel)
9:34 AM Apr 10th : Pigtails are the choice of hair style for field trips! At blackwaterfoot goin to look at some ig. [...]