My Donegal, Ireland fieldtrip iterinary

Copy-pasted from the document sent to ENVS students

Due to adverse weather conditions etc. the sequence may be changed or the content of an individual day may be changed. Adverse weather may affect the time spent on a particular project.

A variety of tasks will be set using field techniques appropriate to the geological problem under investigation. Some of the work will be marked (provisionally indicated by *). We may change the days we choose to mark and may take your general performance and attitude throughout the field course into consideration when arriving at a final mark.

Saturday 19th June:
Travel to Donegal. Introductory meeting (at time to be arranged).

Project 1; An analysis of the structures and mineral assemblages in and around the Ardara pluton. Construction of an integrated history of deformation, metamorphism
and intrusion.

Sunday 20th June:
8.30 a.m. depart in coach. Rossbeg-Trawmore Strand structural and metamorphic
analysis.

Monday 21st June:
8.30 a.m. depart in coach. Trawmore Strand structural and metamorphic analysis*.
Review of notebooks, deadline 5.00 p.m.

Tuesday 22nd June:
8.30 a.m. depart in coach. Trawmore Strand structural and metamorphic analysis*.

Wednesday 23rd June:
8.30 a.m. depart in coach. Carrickfadda-Clogher structural and metamorphic
analysis*.

Thursday 24th June:
8.30 a.m. depart in coach. Maas-Binwee-Tully Beg igneous analysis, studies of
contact relationships and internal petrographic variations*. Project deadline 8.30 p.m.

Project 2; An investigation of the palaeoenvironments, palaeoecology and
depositional history of the Donegal basin.

Friday 25th June:
9.00 a.m. feedback on work submitted. Depart in coach after meeting. Shalwy Point basement and cover relationships and sedimentological analysis. Keenaghan Lough basement and cover relationships and, sedimentological and palaeontological
analysis.

Saturday 26th June:
8.30 a.m. depart in coach Rosses Point basement-cover relationships and, sedimentological and palaeontological analysis. Rosses Point-Red Hill-Dunmoran Strand-Aughrus Point sedimentological and palaeontological analysis. Review and
initial assessment of notebooks, deadline 5.00 p.m
.
Sunday 27th June:
9.00 a.m. feedback on work submitted. Depart in coach after meeting. Bundoran
stratigraphical, sedimentological and palaeontological analysis*.

Monday 28th June:
Bundoran stratigraphical, sedimentological and palaeontological analysis*. Final
assessment of notebooks, deadline 8.30 p.m.

Tuesday 29th June:
Bundoran stratigraphical, sedimentological and palaeontological analysis*. Project
deadline 8.30 p.m.

Wednesday 30th June:
9.00 a.m. feedback on work submitted. Depart in coach after meeting. Mullaghmore
Head sedimentological analysis*, deadline 5.00 p.m.

Project 3; An analysis of the petrographic variations and history of intrusion in the
Blind Rock composite dyke.

Thursday 1st July:
9.00 a.m. feedback on work submitted. Depart in coach after meeting. Blind Rock igneous analysis*. Studies of contact relationships and internal petrographic
variations, deadline 5.00 p.m.

Friday 2nd July:
9.00 a.m. depart in coach. Travel to Belfast. Travel to Liverpool.

updating the blog layout

For some, a blog is a private reflection of oneself and subjected to be viewed by others. So one might deduce one's personality based from his/her blog layout though it involves ambiguity. For me, I decided to make my blog somewhat a "relaxing" place hence chose the nature background image with some what I consider a masculine touch aka black colours on the text boxes etc. But I will be updating some more.

I am really nervous with my upcoming fieldtrip this saturday. We'll be having advanced geological field techniques, which will take place in County Donegal, Ireland. And I have to be at the John Lennon Liverpool Airport by 5 am SHARP to catch the flight at 7.00 am to Belfast.

Break at Leicester

arived at my big sister's on last wednesday so tonight's my 3rd night in Leicester. We went to Alton towers yesterday under University of Leicester so its much cheaper with student discount..just around 19-ish GBP inclusive of the coach and all-rides pass! considering for a person who does not fancy the thrill rides, that's a good bargain :)

I did not spend much there, except for the photos, so here's the outline for the expense at the theme park:-
photos - 15 gbp
food - approximately 6gbp

and I still feel tired after the trip yesterday as we spent the whole day there from 9-ish am to 6-ish pm...and managed to get on 10 rides(for me)... :D

Exams over - reaching the end of my second year!

Finished the exam since last friday 12pm...now its my 4th day of post-exam...its 11.50pm though..so moving on to the fifth day...not that too excited. As expected, the feelings of "blur" is slowly taking me over bit by bit. I guess its because the exams drained too much of my time such that I felt time's clicking too fast..way too fast to be honest. But now..im feeling the time's slow again. The thing is I had this feeling where I have lots of things to do when i was having my exam...and now the feeling's gone. Really irritating at times. But its alright, I need to cool down before my fieldtrip this 19th...hence my first day of being a third year*gulp!

I will be going to Leicester tomorrow and Alton's towers day trip on thursday! Then off to Loughborough to stayover at my brother's place. So I guess I better enjoy my remaining days of being a second year! :)