Monday 11 April 2011

Volcanoes, tropical reefs and copper ores - June 11/12th and 18/19th

Field Geology in Mid Wales: volcanoes, tropical reefs and copper ores led by Dr. Nicholas Chidlaw
Two consecutive weekends: Saturday 11th, Sunday 12th, Saturday 18th, Sunday 19th June 2011.
Base near the towns of Kington (first weekend) and Builth Wells (second weekend). For further information see website. All enrolments are via the University of Cardiff.
Note: this course is accredited, involving attendees agreeing to take an assessment (fairly painless) of their learning.
Highlights of the course include:
* Welsh Borderland landforms with hogsback hills and craggy uplands
* Precambrian sediments and igneous rocks correlated with Shropshire further north
* Coral-rich limestones of mid-Silurian age (collected unrestricted - working quarry)
* Oldest dated rocks in southern Britain
* Traces of copper ores within fissures in the rocks
* Igneous intrusions with baked margins
* Felsic lava domes and tuffs, and basaltic pillow lava.
This course is to be run through the Centre for Lifelong Learning at Cardiff University, and assumes no prior knowledge on the part of those enrolled.

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