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Shells and rocks

Rocks, Minerals and Fossils

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Limestone identification

This resource includes a PowerPoint explaining how limestones are classified and identified. It also includes a limestone ID sheet, a worksheet for a …

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Looking at sands

This resource includes a PowerPoint explaining how microscopy can be used to analyse sands, information about how sand samples are categorised, a …

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Modelling seafloor volcanoes

This very simple numerical model helps us to understand what controls whether oceanic volcanoes reach sea-level to form islands. It shows how …

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Acanthonerous Filamentosus

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Fossils from the Display Cabinets

GH Morton Samples

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Rock around Port Sunlight village, Wirral

This urban geology trail is a route around Port Sunlight village, which is a model industrial village founded in 1888 by William Hesketh Lever (later …

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SketchFab Models

This resource is a set of Sketchfab 3D models of hand specimens used in an online version of a University of Liverpool geology practical exercise. …

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Rocks in thin section

This resource is a basic introduction to looking at rocks in thin section. The resource includes a section outlining the parts of a polarising light …

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Sand analysis

This resource includes a sand analysis exercise and photographs of sediment grain mounts of sands deposited in different sedimentary environments. …

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Metamorphic image library

These images are ‘free to use’ for non-commercial educational purposes. Please acknowledge their source as GeoHubLiverpool.

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Metamorphism

Metamorphism for A-Level students. These resources were prepared by Prof John Wheeler for a meeting of A-Level Geology students. This resource is a …

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Igneous image library

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Sedimentary structures image library

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