100 Things Geo Meme - additional

17. Living and fossilized stromatolites Yep. They took us to see some at Summer School in 2009!

Whoops!

Nearly a year went by there without posting in here at all. I have some back-dated things that I need to log, so I'll get onto that and it won't look so bad!

In the meantime, I have subscribed to Deposits Magazine, which is fabulous, after getting myself a free sample copy back in July. It's already mnaged to clear up some issues I had with some of the terminology from Summer School. I now grasp exactly what / how hardground is formed. I mean, they showed it to us at School, but it wasn't clearly described. I don't think one person there just said "formed during times of low sedimentation rates."

*headdesk* it's all so obvious when pointed out in simple language.

The last local booksale was a bit of a waste of time, but I did manage to pick up a cheap copy of The Discovery of Evolution. Currently reading it on the loo - like you needed to know that...

Isle of Wight

Unfortunately we went over a weekend when the tides were annoyingly high for most of the day, so there was no rock-bothering to be done or dinosaur footprints to find. Instead, we made up for it by going to Dinosaur Isle and looking at the fossils and the models.

Revolutions in the Earth by Stephen Baxter

Finished this book today and logged it on Shelfari.

Excellent read.

Howick

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Herring bone cross stratification. They told us that this is rare and this particular area is a very good example.

Scremerston

Graphic logging day at Scremerston. This was my section:


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It wasn't as exciting as the next one up:


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Lepidodendron root ball!!!

Christmas Carol

I find it very amusing that a Christmas Carol supposedly about the birth of Christ is actually about the birth of Bonnie Prince Charlie!

Oh Come Let Us Adore Him!