Fossiliam: Dr Liam Herringshaw
ICE & WATER Lecture notes (pdf file): 2013_IntroGeol_Lect7_climate Oxygen isotopes as ancient temperature proxies (from the JOIDES Resolution project). Using earthworm poo as a palaeo-thermometer (the original paper can be read here). Milutin Milankovitch: Seeking the Cause of the Ice Ages (from AMNH) A tutorial on Milankovitch cyclicity (from Science Courseware) Erratics: rocks from afar (pebbles of the Yorkshire Coast,...
GEOLOGICAL MAPS Lecture notes (PowerPoint format): 2013_IntroGclMaps Exercise 1 (pdf from Earth Learning Idea website): 2013_GclMaps_Ex1 Exercise 2 (pdf): 2013_GclMaps_mapping_intro Exercise 3 (pdf): 2013_GclMaps_Ex3 Geological map resources: The British Geological Survey has various Open Geoscience resources (including the Geology of Britain viewer, and the iGeology app). There is also the BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units. Geological mapping of the...
STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY & PLATE TECTONICS Lecture notes as a pdf: 2013_IntroGeol_Lect6_tect_SML Lecture notes as a PowerPoint file: 2013_IntroGeol_Lect6_tect_SML The day the Earth moved (Extremely interesting Cosmos article on the theory of plate tectonics). Rheology in structural geology, by the University of Leeds (just in case you missed it) Leeds also provide further teaching resources on structural geology here. An online...
METAMORPHIC ROCKS A pdf of the lecture slides – 2013_IntroGeol_Lect5_meta Types, grades and facies of metamorphism (a guide by the British Geological Survey). Classification of metamorphic rocks (from Kentucky University) A list of metamorphic mineral types (from UC Santa Barbara) Metamorphic minerals (National Museum of Wales guide) An atlas of metamorphic minerals in thin section (from Oxford University) Barrovian metamorphism...
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS PowerPoint presentation for lecture 4: 2013_IntroGeol_Lect4_sedy A Geological Society information page on sedimentary rocks can be found here. A BBC Bitesize summary of sedimentary rocks can be found here. A list of US Geological Survey resources on sedimentary geology can be found here. For information on the soils of the UK, go to the NERC Soil Portal. The...
IGNEOUS ROCKS Lecture notes for class 3: 2013_IntroGeol_Lect3 A guide to some of the common rock-forming minerals. A summary of igneous rocks, magmas and volcanoes (courtesy of Tulane University) National Museum of Wales’ guide to minerals (including those of the igneous rocks of Wales) The UK Virtual Microscope (images of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks in hand specimen and under...
TIME Lecture 2 handout: 2013_IntroGeol_Lect2 Geological timescale charts (from the ICS) Determining the Age of the Earth (Scientific American special edition, containing lots of short papers on the topic) British geological time and climate (free poster from the BGS) Old Father Time (a Rocky Road article about William Smith) The time lord of York (my article about John Phillips) Fortune...
BEGINNINGS Lecture 1 handouts: 2014_IntroGeol_Lect1_SML (PowerPoint) 2014_IntroGeol_Lect1_SML (PDF) Useful links: James Hutton: Founder of Modern Geology (American Museum of Natural History article) Neptunism vs Plutonism (a Scientific American article) Charles Lyell and uniformitarianism (University of California Berkeley article) Darwin the geologist (Darwin correspondence project) How to use zircons to trace the earliest rocks on Earth (AMNH article) The Oldest Rock...
I am organizing the Palaeontological Association-sponsored session at the 2013 British Science Festival in Newcastle. It is called Bodies of Evidence, will run at the Great North Museum on Sunday September 9th, and it is going to be dead great. Literally, as the event will be packed to the rafters with amazing fossils of long-gone creatures. How do we figure...
To download the slides for my University of York Lifelong Learning class on fossils, click the following links: 2013_IntroFossils_pt1 2013_IntroFossils_pt2 For further information on fossils, the following websites are useful: Natural History Museum, London – fossils Natural History Museum, London – fossils of Britain Oxford University Museum – identifying invertebrate fossils BBC Nature – fossils British Geological Survey – Fossil...