Project progress meeting Thursday, 27 November 2008 12.00pm – 12.15pm I showed Richard a copy of my project overview, which as the project introduction, hypothesis, methods, assumptions, a sentence stating a contribution of my research and references. Richard suggested that there is a software which enables me to plot in my datasets which will give a computerised analysis. This may be added up to my method’s...

Project Introductory Fieldtrip Thursday, 6 November 2008 9.00am – 2.00pm As planned in our 1st meeting, Richard and I met in Barry Island’s train station on Wednesday the 12th at 9.00am. The objective of this fieldtrip is to observe features of the outcrops that we’re going to get our data from. It was a perfect day to engage into fieldwork that day. The sun was up and the weather was pleasant. We started...

Overview of Project The East-West trending Bristol Channel basin experienced a series of sedimentation and regional tectonics movement from Carboniferous until Neogene. The carbonaceous shelf-limestone was largely deposited in early Carboniferous period. Later, the Variscan orogeny uplifted the area which formed the unconformity throughout the Permian. Crustal extension and lithospheric thinning throughout the...

On Thursday 6th November 2008, I had a meeting with Professor Richard Lisle in Room 2.23C. I had briefly explained him about the MESci Research Project from the EA3008 Research Tutorial module. I have also admitted my interest to work on a project in the field of Structural Geology. Professor Lisle acknowledged this and later expressed that he had an interesting project in mind. As an introductory for the project,...