Twitter Updates for the 9th of April. (RJ – Robert Jamieson (me), HS – Hazel Scott). Morning spent mapping a transect across the entire Carboniferous at Corrie, afternoon spent touring the Distillery and Brewery.
7:42 AM Apr 9th : In the field from 8:30 this morning to avoid the tides. Brutally early start. – RJ
11:09 AM [...]
Twitter Updates for the 8th of April. (RJ – Robert Jamieson (me), HS – Hazel Scott). Most of the day spent mapping Dougrie field, with a stopover at Imachar to look at Dalradian folding.
8:19 AM Apr 8th : Up bright(ish) and earlyish, weather was horrendous last night, not much better this morning. – RJ
10:35 AM [...]
Twitter Updates for the 7th of April. (RJ – Robert Jamieson (me), HS – Hazel Scott). A day of Dalradian rocks, followed by Hutton’s Unconformity (well, one of them anyway).
8:23 AM Apr 7th : Early morning in Arran. Weather is truly horrendous. Rain sloshing down, time for porridge. – RJ
8:34 AM Apr 7th : Just [...]
Gems from Glasgow Uni Heroes part 1: “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” – Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
Gems from Glasgow Uni Heroes part 2: “There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now.” – Lord Kelvin, 1900
Gems from Glasgow Uni Heroes part 3: James Watt patenting other people’s ideas.
Gems from Glasgow Uni Heroes [...]
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Collected Tweets from April 6th. Walk up Glen Sannox, followed by Sedimentary Logging of Old Red Sandstone in Sannox Bay. (Again; RJ is Me, HS is Hazel)
Twitter Updates for the 5th of April. (RJ – Robert Jamieson (me), HS – Hazel Scott)
Second year Earth Science students at Glasgow University go on a residential field-trip in the Easter Holidays to Arran. While there we look at rocks and landforms stretching from the Late Neoproterozoic through to the Quaternary glaciations.
This year, we liveblogged (sort of) the trip for the department using twitter. Myself (@bobreturns) and Hazel (@miss_jazz) sent [...]
So there was this video that popped up earlier in the week called “I am a Geek!” starring a bunch of internet “celebrities” (mostly twitter and web 2.0 celebrities) declaring that they’re geeks. Their definition of geek being that they use technology but don’t specifically live in their parents basements or play D&D. Since then [...]
Continue reading about The Whole Geek/Nerd thing that’s been happening this week
So, today a few of us popped over to Victoria Park to visit Glasgow’s Fossil Grove (55° 52′ 36.24″ N, 4° 20′ 17.58″ W according to Wikipedia). Fossil Grove is a group of Lepidodendron tree stump casts dated to the Early Carboniferous, and part of the Lepidodendropsis Floral Province. It’s a reasonably famous site (SSSI [...]
Hello! You’ve stumbled upon my personal website/blog thing.
I’ve not really fixed on an absolute purpose for this site. In general it’s probably going to consist mostly of geology related posts and images, with the occasional tangential ramble about whatever I’m reading or doing at the time. To begin with I’ll probably start off with a [...]