Information for schools
School children in Barantu. Photography by Tim Wright, University of Leeds
Young women in traditional Afari dress. Photograph by Tim Wright, University of Leeds.
Information for schools
This website includes lots of pages of interest to those studying not only geology, but geography, physics and technology as well as anyone who is interested in what it is like to be a scientist.
In the Geology of Afar section there are non-technical descriptions of the stratigraphy and structural geology of Afar.
The What are we doing? pages describe how we collect information about the Earth by studying the:
- Natural electric and magnetic currents (magnetotellurics);
- Waves generated by earthquakes (seismology);
- Information from satellite images (space geodesy);
- Rocks and gases from erupting volcanoes (volcanology).
The A day in the life of ... films are short videos on how different types of geologists spend there days.
In the Fieldwork campaigns there are the blogs kept by PhD students during their fieldwork in Afar. These are:
- Nick's blog (February 2009) (word doc)
- Lorraine's blog (January 2008) (PDF file)
- Dave & Talfan's blog (January 2008) (PDF file)