Posts treating: "Wales"
Monday, 14 March 2016
Geology in the West Country [2016-03-14 12:58:00]
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(175 visits) Carboniferous,Devonian,Silurian; GB
Lifelong Learning 4 day course Field Geology in Pembrokeshire (Part 2) Two weekends in June: 4th, 5th, 18th, 19th10.00 am – 5.00 pm each day. The Pembrokeshire landscape differs from much of Wales in that it is largely unmountainous, with extensive areas forming plateaux lying below 183m (600 ft). This course will visit a number of key coastal locations in the south of the county, examining rocks formed during Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous times. The course is divided [...]
The Oldest Jurassic Dinosaur: A Basal Neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain. PLoS ONE 11(1): e0145713.
Art by Credit Bob Nicholls
Dracoraptor hanigani from south of Wales is possibly the oldest known Jurassic dinosaur from the UK.
The 200 cm long specimen appears to be a juvenile animal, as most of its bones were not yet fully formed or fused. PR
Left premaxilla with tooth
Mount Snowdon was, of course, a popular entry to our photo competition! Wales’ highest mountain has been shaped by glaciation, and is popular with geologists and climbers alike. The mountain was used by Edmund Hillary in training for his 1953 … Continue reading
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [2015-12-07 16:09:00]
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(183 visits) US,GB
Limestone "pavement" above Willow Canyon, with windblown snow.It’s a cold windy December afternoon in the foothills of the Laramie Mountains—7200 feet elevation, heart of the North American continent, far from any ameliorating marine effects. But no matter. A party of intrepid tree-followers sets off, headed for a small limestone canyon where a willow grows.We’re not alone. Around the globe, tree-followers are checking their trees. This phenomenon began several years ago, launched by a [...]
Geology in the West Country [2015-08-11 18:51:00]
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(157 visits) Ordovician,Cambrian; GB,IN
Lifelong Learning 4 day course Field Geology in Pembrokeshire (Part 1) Two weekends in October: 10th, 11th and 24th, 25th10.00 am – 5.00 pm each dayThe Pembrokeshire landscape differs from much of Wales in that it is largely unmountainous, with extensive areas forming plateaux lying below 183m (600 ft). This course will visit a number of key locations, mostly coastal and in the north of the county, examining rocks formed during Precambrian, Cambrian and Ordovician times.The course is [...]
THURSO, SCOTLAND (June 22, 2015) — Back to the trains today as I leave for a long journey south through Scotland and central England and then west to Aberystwyth, Wales, to spend some quality field time with my friend Tim Palmer. Our goal will be to explore sites for potential Independent Study projects. Lots of
William Smith’s geological map of England and Wales turns 200 this year. It was first published just eight years after the foundation of the Geological Society in 1807. A copy of the map has hung on the wall of the … Continue reading
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Logan (April 20, 1798 – June 22, 1875) was a Canadian geologist dubbed the "Father of Canadian Geology." He began is career making geologic maps of coalfields in Wales, noting the relationship between the underlying clay layers and fossil tree roots with local coal beds. This substantiated the theory that coal beds are formed in place.
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March 23, 1769 - August 28, 1839)
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An English engineer and geologist who is best known for his development of the science of stratigraphy. Smith's great geologic map of England and Wales (1815) set the style for modern geologic maps, and many of the colorful names he applied to the strata are still in use
From Today in Science History:
Logan (April 20, 1798 – June 22, 1875) was a Canadian geologist dubbed the "Father of Canadian Geology." He began is career making geologic maps of coalfields in Wales, noting the relationship between the underlying clay layers and fossil tree roots with local coal beds. This substantiated the theory that coal beds are formed in place.
When he began as director
A team of geologists from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) in Copenhagen, Cardiff University in Wales, Lund University in Sweden and the Institute of Planetary Science in Moscow has found the remains of a giant asteroid impact crater in Western Greenland that is over 3 billion years old! Preliminary size estimates of the impacting meteorite at Maniitsoq suggest it may have had a diameter of approximately 30 km resulting in an impact crater of somewhere around 500-600 km. If [...]
Field Geology from the Malvern Hills to the CotswoldsTutor: Dr Nick ChidlawTwo weekends in October: 6th, 7th and 13th, 14th10.00 am – 5.00 pm each dayThis highly scenic area spans the boundary between older folded rocks seen in much of Wales, and younger flatter rocks in southern England. Our study includes those from Precambrian to Jurassic age: metamorphics on the craggy Malverns, red desert strata in a cliff on the River Severn, and shelly oolitic limestone limestones (some formerly [...]
Saturday 18 AugustAn all-day geological ramble around Beachley Point and Tidenham Chase with Dave Owen, formerly of Gloucestershire Geology Trust.We start at 10.00 hrs directly underneath the old Severn Bridge at Beachley, map reference SO 552 906.Beachley Point is the confluence of Rivers Wye and Severn (which have their sources on either side of the same mountain in Wales, Plynlimon). The Lower Carboniferous Rock is overlain by Triassic mudstones, sandstones and conglomerates in an angular [...]
GeoWorld Travel is a new company offering the following destinations: Jan Mayen, Svalbard, East Greenland, the Pyrenees, the Amazon, Antarctica, South Georgia and the Falklands, and Wales. More destinations will be coming later and geology field trips can be tailored for your group. The East Greenland trip is running from 27 August to 08 September 2012. Due to a last minute change of vessel, there are still several free berths, and the company is able to offer places at 30% off the published [...]
FREE ENTRY TO OUR AWARD-WINNING MUSEUMSee superb fossils and William Buckland’s coprolite table. Discover the extraordinary story of Mary Anning and see archives that shed light on the geologists she associated with – this weekend only from Museum of Wales. SATURDAY and SUNDAY 10am-4pmAmmonite Polishing Polishing has never been this much fun – turn your ammonite into the most glittery fossil of all time, with help from Paddy, Chris, Harry and Ben.Small charge for the ammonite. [...]
Today is the birthday of Sir William Logan, the father of Canadian geology and the founder of the Canadian Geological Survey.
Sir William Logan 1869
William Edmond Logan was born in Montreal, Quebec on April 20, 1798. He was educated in Edinburgh, Scotland and became interested in geology when he was operating a family owned coal mining and copper smelting business in Swansea, Wales. As he grew more interested in geology he produced a map of the coal seams in the district and the strata [...]
In February of this year, Dr Bevins from the National Museum of Wales gave a WEGA lecture on the 'Provenance of the Bluestones of Stonehenge'. In the talk Richard described how, by using petrographic and geochemical analysis, he had pinpointed the most likely source of some of the bluestones as being at Pont Saeson on the edge of the Preseli Mountains. This work has now been published, and a report headed 'Bluestones glacier Theory frozen out' appeared in The Times on Saturday 17 December.Click [...]
The remains of Hurricane Katia have brought gales gusting to near hurricane force across the northern areas of the UK today. The UK Met Office has several severe weather warnings up. A close friend in Wales reports a very windy and wet day. The BBC has more here. In spite of the cold water that Katia passed over, it takes awhile for these systems to spin down and it long
From Today in Science History:Logan (April 20, 1798 – June 22, 1875) was a Canadian geologist dubbed the "Father of Canadian Geology." He began is career making geologic maps of coalfields in Wales, noting the relationship between the underlying clay layers and fossil tree roots with local coal beds. This substantiated the theory that coal beds are formed in place.When he began as director
“The arrogant strut of the coal miner.” That is how Richard Burton describes the men of the valley where he grew up in Wales. Here is the link to a YouTube of a 1980 clip of Burton on the Dick Cavett Show talking of his brother who went down the mines at thirty and died at