Plate Tectonics and the Ocean Floor – More reading for you!
For plate tectonics and the ocean floor, there’s lots of fascinating detail online. Try some of these start words; oceanic crust, oceanic trench, lithosphere, Moho, Glomar Challenger, joidesresolution, black smokers, Alfred Wegener, magnetic stripes. These sites will lead you onto lots of other locations – happy exploring. Also online, Metageologist provides lots of reading about metamorphic rocks and connected topics. If...
Last Chance to see the Chinese Dinosaurs!
Exhibition finishes this weekend! Go along to see this marvellous display if you can. Rockwatch had a wonderful day at Wollaton Hall with Adam Stuart Smith showing Rockwatchers round the Chinese Dinosaur Exhibition he’d brought over from China. Stunning fossils but the first surprise was that the location for the exhibition was where Clark Kent had lived in the Batman...
Arran Geofest 2017!
The Isle of Arran, off the west coast of Scotland, is a great place for geology. Walk in the footsteps of Triassic reptiles or marvel at the giant shells that lived at the Equator 300 million years ago. And you can celebrate Arran’s spectacular geology at their Geofest. Friday 15 – Sunday 17 September Three days of walks and talks in what promises to be an amazing weekend. All events are free but there are limited...
Holidays nearly over but still time to enter our Rockstar Competition!
Just a few more weeks to go but you still have lots of time to get creative and enter our Rockstar Competition! Every year we run a competition for Rockwatchers to encourage you to hone your skills and interests in geology by sending us something geological. For the under 16’s we invite entrants to submit a geological creation of their choosing. This might be an animation, a piece of artwork, a model, a story or a geological...
Great fieldtrip to South Wales
Wonderful weekend fieldtrip to South Wales – and the sun shone! Meilyr found a great dinosaur footprint! A hand is a useful scale. Make sure you don’t miss out on future adventures – the new Rockwatch Events Leaflet is being worked on at the moment and will be landing on your door mat in about 10 days time. Make sure you book quickly so that you don’t miss out on a trip you might like to go on!...
Fabulous Fieldtrip to Lincolnshire
Rockwatchers with their finds! Rockwatchers had a great day out with geologists Paul Hildreth and Mick Oates. They found chunks of satin spar – a type of gypsum which was one of the typical signs of the desert deposits investigated. See if you can come next time! Just keep an eye on the Events Leaflet to make sure you don’t miss any of the upcoming fieldtrips!