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 [...]
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).
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]