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Believe it or not, this 'oil painting' is a photograph.  February 2018

I love rocks.

Visible to anyone in the world

I spent several days of the last week scrambling up and down steep slopes, over loose shifting piles of rock, and across wet, slippery, seaweed-covered stone.  It was teh awesome.

And my dodgy achilles tendons very kindly waited until I was home to die utterly.

I have seen fossils - oh have I not seen fossils! - and I have identified unconformities, I have recognised the Bouma sequence and I have seen Walther's Law in action.  And in a haze of exhaustion on the last day I have protested against the need to leave, because I so badly wanted to go back to the first couple of sites and look at them again with all the experience I had gained at the later ones.

This sedimentary field trip was worth the fee for SXG288 all by itself.  Pity I had to suffer through the rest of the module to get to it smile

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