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This weekend I have been up to Northumberland to witness the illumination of Hadrian’s Wall. This is the view eastwards from Vercovicium or Housesteads Roman Fort. A beacon was lit about every 250m along its length across Britain. The geology angle is, of course, that the Roman’s used the geology as part of the [...] Some tragic news from China via Mineweb, that I’ve not come across elsewhere, on the rescue mission for 31 trapped coal miners in the Luotuoshan Coal Mine being called off. The mine in Inner Mongolia was flooded on the morning of March 1st. There were 77 people underground at the time. One miner was killed, and [...] 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 students [...] 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 have [...] 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 Regionally [...] |
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