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Door 2: Heigh-ho, or Geology in Popular Music
The 2016 Great Geoadvent – Door 1
The geoadvent is back! Click on ‘advent calendar’ above to see the latest posts, or follow the links below. Continue reading
Door twenty four
With the end of the year almost in sight, we’re rounding off the #geoadvent blog season with a look back at the highlights of our blogging year – featuring mud, salt dough, a last minute Christmas present suggestion, and of course, dinosaur shaped cake…. Continue reading
Door twenty three
Throughout the #geoadvent, we’ve been sharing some of the beautiful images which were submitted to our 100 Great Geosites photography competition – as well as some of the winners! Our third place went to a photograph of a geosite which is closely linked to one of our themes of 2015, William Smith and his amazing … Continue reading
Door twenty two
Today’s geosite in Shrophsire features arguably the most varied 100 square kilometres of geology in the world… Continue reading
Door twenty one
Throughout the advent season, we’ve been counting down with images submitted to our 100 Great Geosites photo competition. Today’s photographs are all of a geosite whose name is an Anglicisation the Gaelic Creag a’ Chnocain – meaning ‘crag of the small hill’. Continue reading
Door twenty
An ancient Neolithic site, hewn from the UK’s oldest rocks, is behind door 20 of the #geoadvent… Continue reading
Door 19: The Evacuation of St Kilda
Behind door nineteen, the most remote of our #100geosites, which attracted some beautiful photo competition entries! Continue reading
Door eighteen
Today’s #geoadvent site is the highest peak in South Wales, situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park… Continue reading
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