Tag: Geology
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Inspirational Physical Geographers #2: Alfred Wegener
When teaching about tectonic processes to your students it is likely you will have mentioned Alfred Wegener. Perhaps you have taught about the ‘mystery’ of why the continents appear to fit together, or how fossils of animals and plants have been found on different continents that wouldn’t ordinarily have been found together, thus suggesting that…
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Water is everywhere : the really deep water cycle
“Plate tectonics is part of the water cycle” Excuse me…did you say that plate tectonics is part of the water cycle? Yes, I did…..read on and let me explain how, and also why it should and could be incorporated into your geography teaching. This is not as tricky as you might think; it will just…
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Professor Chris King, Emeritus Professor of Geoscience Education, Keele University, 1949–2022. A tribute.
By Duncan Hawley and John Lyon. Here is a quote from ‘Fragments of Earth Lore’ by James Geikie (1893)[1]: “When we come to ask why some rivers flow in deep canyons, like those of the Colorado—why valleys should widen out in one part and contract, as it were, elsewhere—why the courses of some rivers are…
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Does this place rock?
Written by Keith Hicks (PGSIG member) Introduction Does your local area rock? And I mean actually rock, does it have a diverse and wide ranging use of geology that make up the building, surfaces and artefacts or is it an area dominated by false geology, a small landscape of concrete and tarmac? The basic ideas…