Fossiliam: Dr Liam Herringshaw
He’s not a real professor, he’s not a real herring, but Professor Herring’s #NaturalHystery is really happening this summer, and will be a really different tour of York! From volcanoes and cholera to unicorns and Patagonians, the (mostly) scientific tales of the city will be revealed in this unique Festival of Ideas event, kindly supported by the Holbeck Trust innovation...
The PowerPoint slides for my 2015 one-day course on the Geological History of Britain can be downloaded here: 1. Introduction: 2015_GHB_Part1 2. Cainozoic: 2015_GHB_Part2 3. Mesozoic: 2015_GHB_Part3 4. Palaeozoic: 2015_GHB_Part4 5. Proterozoic & Archaean: 2015_GHB_Part5 To view the files I produced for my 2012 evening class on the Geological History of Britain, which provide more detail on many of the...
Notes (pdf) for my University of York CLL class “An Introduction to Fossils” on Nov. 29th: 2014_Intro_Fossils Useful links The challenges of taxonomy, or why reptiles don’t exist any more (article from The Conversation). Trilobites.info – a marvellous and comprehensive website devoted to understanding trilobites. The Burgess Shale – Cambrian lagerstatte website from the Royal Ontario Museum (including a Virtual...
Time, and other geological maps Week 8 lecture notes (pdf): 2014_IntroGclMaps_8 An aeromagnetic anomaly map of the Humber-Trent region (from the BGS). The World digital magnetic anomaly map, or WDMAM project. A gravity anomaly map of the Humber-Trent region (from the BGS). Overview of gravity anomaly maps and the shape of the Earth (from NASA). Gravity map traces ocean circulation...
Metamorphic rocks Lecture 7 notes (pdf): 2014_IntroGclMaps_7 Small-scale (regional/global) geological maps – from the Commission for the Geological Map of the World. Cross section of Fort Belknap, showing geological structure (from Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College). An explanation of cleavage from the University of Leeds.
Igneous rocks Lecture notes for week 6 (pdf) – 2014_IntroGclMaps_6 Igneous rocks Igneous rocks – a picture guide from Geology.com Igneous rocks in Britain – a simple map from the Geological Society of London. Ordovician igneous rocks in Britain – a locality map from the GCR. Maps of intrusive igneous structures – a guide from TU Delft. The evolution of...
Unconformities Week 5 Lecture slides (pdf) – 2014_IntroGclMaps_5 Lecture notes on unconformities (doc) – Unconformities The Making of Siccar Point – excellent blogpost by Highly Allochthonous about this famous unconformity. University of Leeds Introduction to Structural Geology – Geological Maps workbook. Digital technology and the future of geological fieldwork – paper from the Journal of the Geological Society of London.
An Introduction To Geological Maps – Week 4 Lecture notes (pdf) – 2014_IntroGclMaps_4 Faults, Earthquakes and Landscape – a guide from the Geology Cafe website. Teaching Resources in Structural Geology – courtesy of the University of Leeds. The Rock Cycle: Faults – web resource from the Geological Society of London. Geologizing With Darwin – a Scientific American blogpost about Charles...
An Introduction To Geological Maps – Week 3 Week 3 class notes (pdf) – 2014_IntroGclMaps_3 Anne Phillips, Trowelblazer. Google Earth locations for teaching geological mapping (courtesy of the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College). A real life geological map, from a satellite image of China (courtesy of the Highly Allochthonous website)