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