Fossiliam: Dr Liam Herringshaw
An Introduction To Geological Maps – Week 2 Lecture notes (pdf) for Class 2 – 2014_IntroGclMaps_2. BGS Maps Portal – maps and sections 1832 to 2014. BGS Map Symbols and Ornaments – the full guide. October 17th 2014 was ‘Geologic Map Day‘ – Earth Science Week here providing lots of resources. Highly Allochthonous blogpost on the mapping of folded rocks....
An Introduction To Geological Maps – Week 1 Lecture notes (PDF) – 2014_IntroGclMaps_1 Lecture notes (PowerPoint) – 2014_IntroGclMaps_1 iGeology – the BGS Smartphone app that puts geological maps in your pocket. Geology of Britain viewer – another cool tool from the BGS. Wired’s Map Lab – a plethora of articles about scientific mapping. Geological Mapwork – geological mapping exercises from...
WIND & SUN LECTURE NOTES – 2014_PoweredbyRock_lect7_solar_wind_SML (PowerPoint) Renewable Energy Statistics for the UK (from DECC website). Renewables map of the UK (from DECC website) Wind power UK Wind Energy database (from Renewable UK website) Neither rare nor earths (Article about our dependence on rare earth elements, from BBC News) Developing cheaper, greener magnets (article from Ames Lab, US Dept...
GEOTHERMAL Lecture notes (as a pdf) – 2014_PoweredbyRock_lect5_geotherm Lecture notes (as a PowerPoint file) – 2014_PoweredbyRock_lect5_geotherm_SML (With sincere thanks to Dr Charlotte Adams of BritGeothermal, Durham University, for providing much of the information) US Geothermal energy (from US Energy Information Administration) Geothermal Technologies Office, US Dept of Energy. Geothermal energy (British Geological Survey) The BritGeothermal project (BGS, Glasgow, Durham, Newcastle)...
NUCLEAR Lecture notes (PowerPoint) – 2014_PoweredbyRock_lect4_nuclear_SML What is uranium and how does it provide energy? (World Nuclear Association) The geology of uranium (World Nuclear Association) Uranium in a nutshell (About.com) Did the Fukushima accident cause increased thyroid cancer in children? (article in the Guardian, Mar. 2014) Radioactive waste management in the UK (Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) Sellafield geological storage site selection...