Exploring Leicestershire Geology at Beacon Hill
Last weekend I took advantage of the sunny weather and visited Beacon Hill near Loughborough. It’s a great place to visit for a walk close to Leicester and has great views over Loughborough and the Leicestershire countryside. Beacon Hill is part of Charnwood Forest in northern Leicestershire, an area with some very interesting geology, which […]
Fieldwork at Leicester
If you ask any geology student what their favourite part of their degree is they would probably say fieldwork. It’s a crucial part of any geology course and it’s easy to see why people love it! Going out into the field gives you the opportunity to learn so much more than you get from sitting […]
Sicily
If you ask any geology student what their favourite thing about studying geology is, they’ll probably tell you it’s the fieldwork because we get to go to some amazing places as part of our course. Many aspects of geology are much easier to understand if you can see them for real rather than just looking […]
1/100th of my way there
I originally began blogging when I undertook the Leicester Award for Social Networking and now I can’t seem to stop. I blogged about this topic a few months ago… Something which has certainly sparked my interest since it was announced in October 2014, was the launch of 100 Great Geosites spanning the UK and Ireland by the Geological […]
To the Alps and Beyond!
So, fourth year begins on Sunday when I go to the Alps. It’s a 20 credit module, takes two weeks of fieldwork road tripping from France, through Switzerland and Italy before looping back around back to jolly old Leicester again followed by a report write up. The only wasp in the jam is that we […]
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