An 8-week course taking in some of the finest coastal geology of the British Isles with examples from all four home nations.
Thursdays from January 22nd. Price from £65.00.
- Teacher: Colin Schofield
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One very wet, windy, dry cold day... Sedimentary Rocks and Processes - a 10-week course beginning in November.
We’ve not offered this as a fully tutored course since 2020 so we guess that there will be a number of you looking forward to this examination of all things sedimentary!
Course dates: Starts Monday November 10 - December 8 and then restarts January 19 for a further 5 weeks.
Cost: Ten hour-long Zoom sessions with electronic background papers £80.00 for one person or £100.00 for 2-people studying together. Printed background papers cost an additional £25.00.
Zoom sessions on Mondays at 2.00 and 7.00 pm (you choose)
- Teacher: Colin Schofield
Simply Minerals! does what it says in the title - it gives you all the essential lowdown on all the major groups: rock forming minerals, metallic ores, gangue minerals and even evaporites. The course begins with the major elements found in the Earth’s crust - our cupboard of chemicals!
We don’t pretend that this is your complete guide to minerals, but it lays the foundations for further study and will help you to sort your calcite from your quartz, your barite from your fluorite! To help you with your practical hands on experience, the cost of this course includes a complimentary set of essential specimens covering all the major mineral types.
- Teacher: Colin Schofield
- Teacher: Colin Schofield
Greenland is one of those countries that almost everyone has heard of, but few know anything about it. To start with it doesn’t qualify as a country on many quiz shows. It’s not a country in its own right and doesn’t belong to the United Nations. It’s actually a territory owned by Denmark - even though the United States offered to buy it!
Around 80-90% of its surface area is pretty well permanently covered by ice, so most of our knowledge is limited to the coastal areas, particularly on the eastern side. It has a very long geological history with parts dating back to more than 4 Ga. Remarkably it has a tectonic history that mirrors that of Scotland, particularly that of the Northwest Highlands. Not surprising when you consider that it was joined to the same landmass until around 60 Ma, when the North Atlantic Ocean started to open.
- Teacher: Colin Schofield