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1st years Tenby-fieldtrip (Pembrokeshire, Wales), 1-8 April 2000. Group B

(group photo at Solva, Cambrian type section, Day 6).

A selection of pictures representative of all days except Day 2 (manic Monday).


Day 1. View from Strumble Head (lower) and pillow lavas (upper)
 


Day 1. Crazy Ed and his cronies on a "graptolite hunt"
 


Day 3. Marloes Bay, "The Three Chimneys", site of the logging exercise.
 


Day 3 (cont'd.). Students sweating over their assessed log.
 


Day 4. Mapping at Freshwater East.
            Happy (?) students (upper).
            Green bits in the Old Red Sandstone?! (lower)
            Can anybody see my hammer?
 


Upper: Day 4 (cont'd.). Mapping at Freshwater East. Staff considers whether to play
             Frisbee or sleep in the sun.
Lower: Day 5. First of the textbook structures at Broadhaven.
 


Day 5 (cont'd.). More wonderful structures at Broadhaven.
 


Day 5 (cont'd.) The best fold axis ever (marked as "Sleek Stone" on OS maps).
Students working hard on sketches and dip and strike measurements.
 


Day 6. D-Day. The final assessed mapping exercise at Caerfai Bay (.....EASY !......)
 


Back in the bus at the end of Day 6. Perhaps the exercise was a bit too tough ?????

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