Exploring rocks, minerals and fossils

City Lit

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

In this course, we will be looking at a range of geological specimens from the tutor’s personal collection. You will learn to identify the common transparent minerals such as quartz and calcite, study the variety of volcanoes around the world and identify their lavas and discover the structure and life stories of common fossils.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Use a simple mineral identification tool kit
- Identify a range of common rocks, minerals and fossils
- Have a basic knowledge of building stones used in London
- Tell a bivalve from a brachiopod and a trilobite from an ammonite.

There are no additional costs but bring along a hand lens/magnifying glass if you have one. Also it would be useful to have a Mineral, Rock and Fossil I.D. book. There are several suitable ones published by Collins, Hamlyn and Dorling Kindersley.

The course is based at City Lit but there may be a short walk outside to look at building stones.

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Course programme

- The varieties of quartz from amethyst to agate and flint
- Some common ores of metals found in the British Isles
- Granites and allied rocks, their formation and how to identify them
- Volcanoes and their lavas
- Geological hazards; earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and landslides
- The building stones of London; finding geology all around us
- How fossils are formed and their uses from Neolithic burials to oil exploration
- Describing and identifying a range of common minerals and fossils.

Additional information

HS026 Introduction to geology. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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