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Dr Liam Herringshaw: lgh865@hotmail.comlgh865@hotmail.com An Introduction To Geological Maps
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Aims & Objectives Read, understand (and produce?) geological maps Mapping – how and why? Geology – introduction Mapping geological structures Topography, drift & solid geology Exercises Where Do You Think You Were?
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Geological mapping: How and why?
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Ordnance Survey William Roy's military survey of Scotland 1747-1755
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Triangulation of Britain
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Geology
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Mappable geological structures 1. Sedimentary deposits/erosion 2. Igneous intrusions 3. Igneous extrusions 4. Deformation (metamorphism)
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Deposition/erosion Unconformity
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Igneous intrusion Whin Sill, Northumberland
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Igneous extrusion Giant's Causeway, Antrim
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Deformation / metamorphism
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Faulting
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The Map That Changed The World William 'Strata' Smith
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Smith & Nephew The Mapping of Yorkshire
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Map Exercise 1 Identification of rocks and structures
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Geological mapping Topography
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Geological mapping Drift
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Geological mapping Bedrock
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Exercise 2 Interpreting simple structures
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The Highlands Controversy Assynt
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Roderick Impey Murchison
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The Highlands Controversy Charles Lapworth
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The Highlands Controversy John Horne & Ben Peach
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Exercise 3 Interpreting more complex structures
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Resources www.fossilhub.org
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Where Do You Think You Were? Your own postcode geological map
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Rotunda Museum / Geological Society President's Lecture Free entry, Scarborough Library December 5 th 2013, 6.30pm Landslides and subsidence: Engineering geology in an age of austerity
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