Siccar Point is where Dr. Hutton was the first man to put his finger on an unconformity, and know what it was. His famous quote is "no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end". Siccar point is the classical location for an angular unconformity. 80 million years of deposition were eroded away here. For More Info Click on the Green Text |
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The Open University is a place where course work is done from home, and lectures come over the T. V. This format allowed the professors at OU to write papers with their free time. The University became a paper mill of geologic literature. For More Info Click on the Green Text |
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South Eastern England is a composed of a series of anticlines and synclines. The concentric green rings are an Anticline. London is in a Syncline, and a Syncline continues underneath the English Channel, and pops up in France as another Anticline. For More Info, Click on the Green Text |
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Coal Mining in South Wales has been going on since the late eighteenth century. Since the 1980's the seams of coal have been running out, and most of the production mines have closed. Mine tourism has become popular, many people travel to South Wales in order to go down in a cage to experience the mines first hand. For More Info, Click on the Green Text |
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The Great Glen Fault (GGF) is composed of a 3km wide series of parallel strike slip faults. Most of the deformation from these faults is seen underwater in lochs that parallel the fault. In fact, the locks of northern Scotland that parallel the fault zone are a direct result of the faulting; hence, the use of a white line to show the fault since a black line (standard for showing faults) would not show up against the black colored locks in this map. In the past the fault was a left lateral strike slip, but in the present it is a right lateral strike slip. There are about 3 earthquakes along the fault per century, these earthquakes are normally rated around 4 on the Richter scale. Fore More Info, Click on the Red Text |
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The Geology of Great Britain
My name is Charles Kieser, and I am a graduate student, working toward a masters degree. This semester I am a student in Dr Whitford-Starks Dynamic Stratigraphy at Sul Ross University in west Texas. Dr Whitford-Stark gave our Dynamic Stratigraphy class six lectures on the stratigraphic and geologic relationships of Great Britain. What I intend do do here is encapsulate those six lectures in a hyper linked geologic map. The first thing that I needed is a geologic map of Great Britain. I have searched on the web, and the best Map I have found, of the entire country, is from Horace B. Woodward in 1904. Even though Horaces' map is an old map, it is a good map. The graphic is resolute enough to work with, and the detail is nice. However, on the 1904 map, all igneous and volcanic rocks are grouped together, despite their age, or if they are intrusive or extrusive. Back in 1904 there was no method of isotopic radioactive decay dating, so intrusive igneous rocks could not be dated; therefore, I took the map into PhotoShop, so that I could make some modern revisions. I have also added some of the major faults to the map.
Click this for the original 1904 Map
Animation instructions for map... Click on Blank Area (No Link) to Pause, Double Click to Continue
