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This tutorial for my Dundee group is going to be essentially another run of the one I provided in Aberdeen a few weeks ago. The material will still be relevant, and in fact the students will be more familiar with the content.

However, there were improvements that I wanted to make.

For the exercise on interpreting geological cross-sections I wanted to prepared set of sketches showing the evolution of the location. Unfortunately these did not exist in the Tutor Notes for the original use of the question in the 2008 TMA.  I drew my own set using MS Paint and the pen of my Tablet PC. These images were then inserted into a PowerPoint, which I can run at the tutorial.

For the radiactive decay exercise I added a few points to the Tutor Notes to remind me to review nuclear structure, and to describe decay in terms of particles, and in terms of numbers of nuclei and the half-life. I also found some more 1p coins to give the possibility of more points on the graph.