Fossiliam: Dr Liam Herringshaw
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...
In 2004, the Palaeontological Association entered University Challenge: The Professionals, hosted by the mighty Sir Jezza Paxo. Should you wish to read an HILARIOUS* account of this great moment in British televisual history, click this link: Palass_v_Paxman *I wrote it, so I may be biased.
The slides (colour) for the final week’s class can be downloaded here: 2013_LifeThruTime_Lect8_colour. I will add a black and white version shortly. The links for the class are as follows: “Big Bang Big Boom” is a 10-minute animation of the evolution of life, and is well worth a watch. Click here to view it. Did bird brains help them survive...
DISCLAIMER: The resources below were for a 2013 class at the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of York, and most of the links no longer work! A colour pdf of the notes from the class can be downloaded here: 2013_YorksDales_colour. Below are a selection of links relevant to Yorkshire Dales geology and fossils… General geo-info To start with,...
A colour pdf of the notes for week 7’s class can be downloaded here: 2013_LifeThruTime_Lect7_colour. I will try to add a black and white version soon. Links for week 7’s class are as follows: Chen & Benton’s (2012) paper on the recovery of life after the end-Permian extinction can be read here: Chen_Benton2012_PT_recovery Was Nyasasaurus the first dinosaur? Read about...