Category: Teaching

Cretaceous Britain: not just chalk The lecture notes for the class can be found here: 2012_GHB_Lect9 Information on the Lower Cretaceous can be found on the Geological Society website here, and information on the Upper Cretaceous here. Images from the GCR volume “British Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy” can be found here. Information on Baryonyx walkeri (‘Walker’s heavy claw’), the fish-hunting dinosaur...

Jurassic: the seas return The slides from the class can be found here: 2012_GHB_Lect8 An excellent overview of the Rhaetian of the UK is provided on the JNCC website here. It explains the stratigraphy, palaeontology, and where the Rhaetian can be seen. A guide to the Lower Jurassic is available on the Geological Society website (click here). Images from the JNCC...

New Red Sandstones – the Permian and Triassic The slides from the lecture can be found here: 2012_GHB_Lect7 An excellent overview of the Permian and Triassic of the UK, listing the best places to see rocks of this interval, can be found on the JNCC website here. An overview of the Permian can be found at the University of California Museum...

Lime, sand and coal – the Carboniferous The lecture slides for the class can be found here: 2012_GHB_Lect6_bw An overview of the Carboniferous period is provided on the Natural England website here. A free publication on the geology of the North Pennines can be found here. A brief overview of the Yoredale Group in Northumberland National Park can be found...

Silurian and Devonian – closure of Iapetus and the building of Britain The lecture notes for class 5 are available as a pdf here: 2012_GHB_Lect5 Images from the GCR book “British Silurian Stratigraphy” can be found here.  They include a comparison of Murchison, Sedgwick and Lapworth’s stratigraphies with that recognized in the late 20th Century (which has since been modified,...

Old Lost Sea – the Iapetus Ocean and the Cambrian-Ordovician geology of Britain The lecture notes to the class can be found here – 2012_GHB_Lect4 Palaeogeographical maps of Europe through time can be found in Ron Blakey’s library (Click here) Palaeogeographical maps can also be found at Chris Scotese’s Paleomap website (Click here). J. Tuzo Wilson’s seminal paper, ‘Did The...

The Precambrian of England and Wales The lecture notes for the class can be found here: 2012_GHB_Lect3. The Precambrian Rocks of England and Wales (Joint Nature Conservation Committee) – the webpage can be found here, the first chapter can be found here, and a list of the geological localities can be found here. The Neoproterozoic of England and Wales (Geological...

Files, notes and links for the 2nd class: The Precambrian-Cambrian of Scotland Lecture slides (as a pdf) – 2012_GHB_Lect2 The Geological Society: Lewisian, Torridonian and Moine (Click here) The Geological Society: Dalradian (Click here) Assynt’s geology – excellent and very detailed Leeds University site (Click here) A document produced by the Joint Nature Conservancy Council, giving an introduction to and...

A few links for my University of York Lifelong Learning course: The 1st lecture –  2012_GHB_Lect1 British Geological Survey – free “Climate Through Time” poster (Click here) British Geological Survey – Open Geoscience resources (Click here) Woodcock & Strachan (2012) Geological History of Britain & Ireland (Click here for the Student Companion site) Geology Rocks – Tutorials on regional geology...