geology « Hypo-theses

Using Gigapan and Photosynth in Geology Teaching

This week I presented some work in progress on the use of gigapan and photosynth to assist mobility impaired geology students at the “Overcoming Barriers to Learning in the Geosciences” meeting of the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) subject centre of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

The main aim of our MIS:TIQUE project (mobility impaired [...]

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BGS Make-a-map

Well, it’s about time. The British Geological Survey has been lagging behind its US cousin for some time now. Like the USGS, the BGS is funded by the taxpayer but unlike the American version the data has always been hard to get hold of and expensive. Bits of data [...]

Extreme Gardening

This weekend I’ve been involved in a bit of geoconservation work a.k.a. extreme gardening. Working with the Staffordshire RIGS group, we were cleaning up a couple of outcrops along the Hamps and Manifold Geotrail at a site called Ladyside Wood (Location 19 on the map below). The parent body of Staffordshire RIGS, UKRIGS (UK [...]

Tara Mine II

In a previous post I looked at my trip down the Tara zinc and lead mine near Navan in Ireland. After a very nice lunch we were then taken on a tour of the processing plant. The ore is first crushed underground and brought by conveyor to the surface. The whole process is [...]