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| An old fashioned measuring tool |
Out of the blue, I was recently contacted by XP School in Doncaster, to ask if I would be prepared to act as a “geology expert” and accompany a group of first year students on a field trip to investigate the geology around the Don Gorge.
Martin Said, a teacher at the school, was impressed by the Doncaster Geodiversity Assessment that
I co-produced for Doncaster MBC in 2007, whilst working for the British Geological Survey. Having previously undertaken a survey of the 26 geological
sites that formed the basis of this report back in 1997, with the South Yorkshire RIGS (Regionally Important Geological Sites) Group, I was considered to be the ideal person to undertake this job.
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| A 20x magnification hand lens |
Although a great
effort was made by the South Yorkshire RIGS Group to highlight the very best sites in the county for their educational value, none of the sites identified in South Yorkshire had
been used by any school for their field trips - to the best of my
knowledge - and so I was very pleased to
help.
25 students, split into two groups, were taken to 3 sites that were considered to provide the best
introduction to the geology of Doncaster.
With each group travelling in an opposite direction, and meeting up for lunch in the middle, a total of 6 hours was spent out in the field to undertake the following tasks:
1) Measure and draw the rock outcrop.
2) Annotate the drawings.
3) Closely investigate the rock outcrop and analyse the lithologies seen.
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| Grain Size and Roundness Charts |
