Category: Teaching

An Introduction To Fossils

The materials used/mentioned in my Hidden Horizons online palaeontology course, An Introduction To Fossils, can be found below. The specimens in the GeoEd ‘Diversity of Life‘ set are as follows: Fossil name Fossil type Higher group Age Where from? Acervularia luxurans Coral Cnidarians Silurian UK Albertosaurus sp. Dinosaur tooth Reptiles Late Cretaceous Canada Calymene blumenbachii Trilobite Arthropods Silurian Dudley, UK...

A Geological History of Yorkshire

Below are materials and links for my course ‘A Geological History of Yorkshire’ PowerPoint slideshow: PDF handout of slideshow: Geological timescale (International Commission on Stratigraphy): https://stratigraphy.org/chart The rock cycle: http://geologycafe.com/erosion/rock_cycle_illustrated.html John Phillips’ 1855 geological map of Yorkshire: http://www.geology.19thcenturyscience.org/books/1855-Phillips-Yorkshire/figures/1855-Phillips-Yorkshire-p0030.jpg An introduction to the geological history of Yorkshire is provided by the Yorkshire Geological Society here, in the online version of their...