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...
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...
Vital for fossil hunters! New NHM Fossil Explorer app.
The Natural History Museum has just released a new version of their Fossil Explorer app. So, now that the sunny weather is here, it’s time to go on a fossil hunt. Then you can get on the app and see what you’ve found. It’s a field guide to common fossils in Britain. And when you’ve discovered what it is you’ve found don’t forget to let us at Rockwatch know. Just go to the NHM website to download...
Don’t miss the Rockwatch Fieldtrip to Bracklesham on July 22
Rockwatchers had such a great day fossil collecting in Bracklesham a few weks ago. Wonderful fossils were found as you can see! And now you can have another opportunity to go there on July 22nd. Hopefully you’ll need to bring sun screen! A great day out for the family!
‘Behind the Scenes’ at the Oxford Museum of Natural History
Fascinating ‘Behind the Scenes’ visit. Briefed in the main hall then off to explore the areas the public don’t usually get to see. Rockwatchers spoke to real palaeontologists and found out what work they do. Inspiring!