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Issue 49 contents list
 Rockwatch Fun Around the Country
Share some of the highlights of Rockwatch field trips from events around the country.
 FOSSIL VOYAGE ADVENTURE
Follow the discovery of a magnificent dinosaur footprint found in the cliffs near Scarborough. John Hudson shares the secrets and difficulties of its removal to the Rotunda Museum in Scarborough, where it is now displayed for all to see.
 THE VIEW FROM AFAR
David Ferguson found that just getting to the site and the contingency planning for a month of field work in the Ethiopian desert was almost as challenging as the field work itself.
 GEOLOGICAL FOOD FOR THOUGHT
With the summer holiday upon us, what better than a geological cook-up session. Kate Salmon and Jen Roberts show you how mouth-watering cookies can illustrate geological processes. But, this is no boring teach-in; it’s fun AND you can eat the end product!
 EUREKA!
Susanna van Rose shares some fascinating moments when she felt like Archimedes! See how she eventually found the answers to geological things she had seen but could not understand at the time. Maybe this will encourage you to work out things that puzzle you like Archimedes and Susanna did.
 MASS EXTINCTIONS
We still do not know exactly what caused the major mass extinctions of the past. Andy Saunders and Marc Reichow share the theory they are working on, that it could have been flood basalt eruptions. These are huge outpourings of millions of cubic metres of molten basalt and gasses that cover large areas of land and continue for many years. Do you agree with their interpretation?
 TOP TIPS FOR FOSSIL COLLECTING
Just in time for the summer holidays when you might be out collecting, comes the Scottish Fossil Code. Colin MacFadyen tells us how the code came into being and how it will help to encourage geoconservation when it is followed. Download the code at www.snh.org.uk/fossilcode - it is applicable to all fossil collecting.
 SITTING ON A GOLD MINE
Colin Prosser shares a secret with readers, that some banks really do sit on a goldmine! Read where Colin found this amazing bank.
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