While I was writing the Teachers' Notes, it occurred to me that large format copies of some of the pictures that I used there could be helpful, so I have tested, and found that most services smallify pics horribly, or gouge the owner for sharing stuff for free.
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Most of the images will look huge on the blog page, because they are all inserted as "original size" which means they will normally come out as 1600 x 1200 (some images are older and smaller format) Titles appear under the images,: to get any picture onto your computer, right-click and choose "save image as". The file titles are complex but sufficiently descriptive, while the captions will help.
There will aremultiple pages:
ABES Teaching Pictures
ABES Teaching Pictures 3
Note that this will proceed slowly: I have quite a lot on at the moment, and this project is not urgent, not yet...
Crystals, mud, erosion, water, sand
Sugar crystals (9 mm field)
Mud cracks: we all know what they look like, but I wasted a lot of time trying to get mud to form cracks at home. There's a PhD in this for somebody!
Mud in Morocco. We weren't that far from the Sahara, but it even rains there, sometimes.
Dust storm, Sydney, September 2009.
Water seeping from sand dunes, Soldier's Beach, shot 1. Water that soaks into the ground (we call it groundwater) has to come out somewhere. The explorer Edward John Eyre was taught this by friendly Indigenous men in South Australia.
Water seeping from sand dunes, Soldier's Beach 2.
Rock pool in sandstone, Umina.
Transpiration exercise. Put a plastic bag around a branch for an hour or so...
Iceberglets from a glacier.
Small iceberg with gulls who don't seem to have been getting cold feet.
King tide flooding the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. When idiots like Tony Abbott claim there is no historical evidence for rising sea levels, this unprecedented flood was it. He was my useless local member, so I sent him the shots, and he ignored them.
Horizontal Falls, north-east Western Australia. Look these falls up: they are driven by the huge tidal variations up there,
Smashed granite. I put a specimen in an old sock and bashed it.
Sand sample: when studying sand, this is all you need.
Some sand is full of shells 'n' things.
Part of a study I undertook of squeaky sand (left) and non-squeaky sand.
See also:
ABES Teaching Pictures
ABES Teaching Pictures 3
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