The UK's Nationwide Geology Club for Children

Next Rockwatch Field Trip – Hunt for Pebbles at Thorndon Country Park
Jun06

Next Rockwatch Field Trip – Hunt for Pebbles at Thorndon Country Park

Did you know that every pebble tells a story? Do you want to know how to identify 80 million year old pebbles? Would you like to know how pebbles tell us about past global climate changes? Join us and other Rockwatchers on our next field trip to find out!  We’ll spend the afternoon of Saturday 11 June from 2pm in the beautiful Essex countryside at Thorndon Country Park learning all about pebbles. It’s a vast and...

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Issue 90 of the Rockwatch Magazine: published April 2022
Apr01

Issue 90 of the Rockwatch Magazine: published April 2022

Issue 90 Contents List: published April 2022 the-beginning Image 1 of 7 THE BIG BANG AND ONWARDS LOST, BUT NOT WITHOUT TRACE! The trails left by plants and animals GOOEY SURPRISE AT THE SEASIDE Natural asphalt drips onto beach SEARCHING FOR LIFE BEYOND EARTH What’s on our red planet neighbour NANOCLAY WEAVES CROP MAGIC Clay works a miracle in the desert THE BEGINNING…OF THE BEGINNING…OF THE BEGINNING The big bang and...

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Join Rockwatch and Lowewood Museum for some Fossil Fun!
Mar24

Join Rockwatch and Lowewood Museum for some Fossil Fun!

Please come along and join Rockwatch and Lowewood Museum for a day of Fossil Fun on Friday 8 April 2022 from 10.30am-4.00pm. There’s no need to book in advance and entry is FREE! Fossil fun activities include – Making a Jurassic landscape Creating your own plaster cast fossils Dino hunt around the museum Bring your fossils to have them identified and see other fossils on display Admission is FREE but donations are welcome....

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Issue 87 of the Rockwatch Magazine: published April 2021
Apr03

Issue 87 of the Rockwatch Magazine: published April 2021

Issue 87 Contents List: published April 2021 basalt-biscuits Image 1 of 7 Basalt Biscuits recipe MINERALS IN YOUR MOBILE What goes into your cellphone TOOTHY TALE OF A SPINOSAURUS Fossil inspiration for a good story SITE-SEEING IN PARYS An adventure near to home WOOD YOU BELIEVE THE GEOLOGY? Fossils in inner-city London CURLING STONES – STRAIGHT FACTS The special granites behind a sport TAKING ON THE POLYHALITE CHALLENGE Mining...

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Rockstar Competiton!
Jun23

Rockstar Competiton!

A perfect time to work on your entry to our Rockstar Competition!  This is a past entry to inspire you – a wood ammonite! Your entry can be anything to do with geology  – rocks, fossils or minerals.  How about a dinosaur picture, a record of your past fossil finds, a story, a film, a snakes and ladders game with dinosaurs and sink holes!  Whatever you like, but it needs geological content that is accurate.  The judges will...

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