Tag: Geology
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Science Summaries
Just a very inarticulate articulation of a (possibly) very bad idea!
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Some Museum-ey Stuff and The PodQuest
Another long rambling post where I talk about museum stuff, and introduce you to one of this year’s side projects… The PodQuest!
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The L’Aquila prosecutions; a dangerous precedent?
In a landmark legal case in Italy yesterday, six scientists and one politician were convicted and sentenced for manslaughter charges. Benjamin Brooks looks at the case and what precedents it might set. (Originally written for The Graduate Times)
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Making a geological model from Sand!
A step-by-step guide on how to make an awesome geological model from sand and other cool stuff!
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Home Again – Dispatches from Montana 3 (The Photo Edition)
Some photographs from my recent trip to the Museum of the Rockies’ Field Camp in Rudyard, Montana.
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Hadrosaur! – Dispatches from Montana 2.
We’ve reached the bone bed! It took over two and a half weeks of digging (one and a half on my part) but we’re finally there. Before reaching the bone bed however I managed to find a few other odds and ends within the overburden, including the following: Another Hadrosaur tooth, One small Crocodile tooth,…
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On cataloguing my first Museum collection…
A rather long post describing what I’ve been up to at Craven Museum and Art Gallery over the last month, and talking about one or two lessons I’ve learnt…
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A rare summer find in Lyme Regis
A post following the events surrounding the recent discovery of an (as yet unidentified) Ichthyosaur fossil found in the landslip to the east of Lyme Regis in August 2011.
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Scelidosaurus harrisonii: A Reprise
Answering Simon’s question about whether the dinosaur fossil described in “Scelidosaurus harrisonii: a tale of mass death and discovery” could be re-worked, I talk a little about re-working and outline how we know this dinosaur isn’t an example of it.
Benjamin David Brooks 