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A CAL module introducing the compass-clinomater, designed around the use of the Silva Type 15, an instrument in common use, as preparation for geological field work. In eight units: description of the...
A CAL module in five units on optical mineralogy: Introduction; Basic concepts (the nature of light, the petrological microscope); Optical studies under plane-polarised light (shape, cleavage, refractive...
Teaching module on the use of the biological component of sedimentary rocks to elucidate the environmental conditions of deposition, with essential material on taxonomy and sedimentary petrology....
A CAL module for teaching students how to extract information about fundamental geological relationships from geological maps, based on the Ten-Mile Geological Map of Great Britain. Tutorials look at scale,...
A CAL module on visualising in three dimensions. It aims to enable students to take various types of spatial geological data and from them visualise geology in three dimensions; also to introduce and...
Teaching module on phase diagrams, which uses various igneous systems to examine their use and interpretation. Incorporates user interactions, animations and simulations, and demonstrates the relationship...
Enables users to explore ice sheets, valley glaciers, the resulting erosion and depositional features.
Teaching module on introductory petrography. Images of rock thin-sections and hand specimens are used extensively. Covers basic petrography, tools used in petrographic examination, identification of mineral...
Eight-part television series on the history of the English language, written and presented by Melvyn Bragg. Episode 4 discusses some of the greatest English texts, including the first English dictionary and...
CAL module on the basics of invertebrate palaeontology, concerned solely with the phylum ‘Mollusca’ and incorporating a large number of images of fossils. The aim is to introduce the ideal of the...
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