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Monday, 30 March 2020

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Ideas for Home Schooling 

Earth Learning Idea [2020-03-30 13:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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In these very difficult circumstances, many of you will be working from home and trying to think of ideas for your pupils or for children at home. Earthlearningidea has a Children's Fun page which may help. Alternatively, you can find topics by using either the search engine or the alphabetical index. Each activity has a suggested age range (usually on the second

European Friendly Rock Network 

Earth Learning Idea [2018-10-29 13:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
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The European Federation of Geologists’ Panel of Experts on Education invites you to join the EUROPEAN FRIENDLY ROCK NETWORK.  The Network is established with the following aims: Raising awareness of young people on nature and interest for geosciences; Increase the schools’ (teachers’/students’) knowledge on the geology and heritage of the region they inhabit; Increase

New Smartphone app - Voyages in Deep Time 

Earth Learning Idea [2018-07-09 16:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (223 visits) info
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Voyages in Deep Time is an exciting project which has developed free smartphone apps to encourage people to visit and enjoy learning about their local rocks and landscapes that tell us what our part of the world was like millions of years ago – in deep time! The app Voyager deeptime is a game taking  the user on a voyage of discovery and survival in ancient environments. It is aimed at

Bath Lecture 

Geology in the West Country [2018-05-07 21:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
Lecture About Quarrying Bath Stone A source put this on Facebook and it looks rather interesting.

Can you find up? 

Geology in the West Country [2018-05-07 21:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info
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Geological Skills Test - Which way is UP? HERE is a test for you! Don't scroll down the page until you have reached your decision. Click on the "Fullscreen" button (the two diverging arrows) on the black band at the top of the photo and it will become full screen and you can zoom in and out with the + and - at the bottom right, or use your mouses scroll wheel. Press "Escape" to return to the previous page. Your task is to decide if the rock sample is younging to the left or right. Once you [...]

The Geological Column 

Geology in the West Country [2018-05-05 12:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (104 visits) info
An Essay on the Geological Column This article discusses the geological column and is a useful and well written appraisal of the column. It mentions some of the many changes that have been made and the means used to determine where the boundaries are. Well worth reading!

It all started with pebbles 

Geology in the West Country [2018-04-30 16:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
Forget Planetesimals, Think Pebbles This article in The Atlantic magazine describes how theories on planet formation are moving away from the merging of planetesimals to the accretion of pebbles. Apparently this explains why Uranus and Neptune are ice giants while Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants. My qualifications are rather absent in this subject, so read the article and come to your own conclusions. An artist's rendition of a star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk

Down to Earth Extra - May 

Geology in the West Country [2018-04-30 10:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
Down to Earth Extra - May You can download this from HERE. Or read it on this page below.

The eyes have it 

Geology in the West Country [2018-04-28 13:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (199 visits) info
Palaeontologists Need a Good Eye! A recent article in the Guardian reiterates an old argument that a good eye is the best means of finding fossils. Once you have the fossil, technology can be of invaluable help but there are few technological means of helping the fossil finder.  A cast of the dinosaur Linheraptor - the original was found when part of a single claw was exposed in a hillside. Photograph: David Hone And some people have the knack of finding fossils. I wish I had it! On a [...]

Free on-line geology course 

Earth Learning Idea [2017-02-06 15:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info
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Using Earthlearningideas and want to know more? You could try this free on-line course from the Open University,

Stone Sculptures 

Geology in the West Country [2016-07-03 18:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (569 visits) info
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Fantastic exhibition 'Sculpture in Stone'Asthall Manor,near Burford, Oxfordshireuntil 10th JulyVisit

Pterosaurs should have been too big to fly? 

Geology in the West Country [2016-07-03 18:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (615 visits) info
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Ancient birds' wings preserved in amber 

Geology in the West Country [2016-06-29 15:36:00]  recommend  1 recommendations  (170 visits) info
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Helium shortage could be solved by new discovery 

Geology in the West Country [2016-06-29 15:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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Flint fossils 

Geology in the West Country [2016-06-28 10:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
Collection of random flint fossils free to a good home - rather heavy!If interested please contact Nick on

Iceland turns carbon dioxide into stone 

Geology in the West Country [2016-06-14 14:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (152 visits) info

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'Lost city' in Greece is actually the result of a gas leak 

Geology in the West Country [2016-06-04 17:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info

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Tutankhamun's blade made from a meteorite 

Geology in the West Country [2016-06-04 17:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info

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Ever since it was discovered wrapped in the folds of Tutankhamun's mummy in 1925, an ancient Egyptian dagger has puzzled historians. How did the boy pharaoh's craftsmen make an iron blade of such quality that it survived more than 3,000 years inside a sarcophagus without turning to rust?Scientists have now reached an extraterrestrial answer: the dagger was forged from the metal of a fallen meteorite. A team of Egyptian and Italian researchers used X-rays to analyse the iron in the knife and [...]

Planet Earth magazines 

Geology in the West Country [2016-05-25 21:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (163 visits) info
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Planet Earth magazines - free to a good home.Issued quarterly, complete set from:- Summer 2002 to Spring 2010, then Winter 2011 to Autumn 2015.(NERC did not print hard copy between and including Summer 2010 to Autumn 2011)Contact email

Events in Panama created our modern world 

Geology in the West Country [2016-05-23 12:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info

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