Geology and Hydrology talk. Monday 10th October, 19.00, Silence room

by Mr Monteith

A very interesting opportunity below. Well worth attending if you can, see details below from Mrs Morton

 

Dear all

 

This coming Monday evening there will be a talk held on Geology and Hydrology, if you are interested in a degree or career in this field then please email me to show your interest.  It will be held at 7pm in the silence room unless the numbers are too large and then we will move to the South room

 

The Talk will be taken by

 

Kym L Morton PhD Imperial  MBA  C Geol Water Strategist and Consulting Mining Hydrologist

Johannesburg, Gaborone (Botswana) and Elgin (UK)

 

Recommended extra reading for year 12 – Economist articles on Globalisation.

by Mr Monteith

A very interesting collection of articles in this week’s Economist exploring why so many people in Advanced Countries appear to be adopting a hostile attitude to various aspects of Globalisation. If you can’t access them all through the website directly remember the magazine is available through the Library’s online Infotrac catalogue (school network only).

Year 12 and 13 – interesting article discussing how we can identify areas of gentrification around the world.

by Mr Monteith

In both the World Cities (yr13) and Changing Places topics (yr12) we examine the issue of gentrification. This is a very interesting link discussing how you can best identity gentrified areas. It is worth exploring some of the links on the page.

Year 13- here is the link to the Los Angeles map. Which areas have gentrified? Is this evidence of reurbanisation? Will this reduce the ‘donut effect’ and prevalence of edge cities?

Visit from the St Andrews University Geobus

by Mr Monteith

A few photos to remind you of the visit by the St Andrews University Geobus last Friday. Experiments included a mountain of flour with a hidden balloon inside providing an effective example of how a caldera is formed from a sudden explosive volcanic eruption. A simple film canister with added water and Berocca tablet created a surprisingly dramatic demonstration of the pressure build-up that occurs to create such an eruption.

We are very grateful to Kathryn for visiting and inspiring the sixth form, particularly as both year 12 and 13 are studying volcanoes and earthquakes this year!

 

Simulating the variation in the rate of movement at a plate boundary
Waiting for the home made pocket volcanoes to erupt

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