This book, Australian Backyard Earth Scientist, is now out.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.
So I am going to post them here. All of them remain copyright, but note the following:
This Creative Commons copyright allows non-commercial use in any form, with attribution and share-alike.
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, like the dolmen below, taken in 2002 when 1024x768 was hot stuff.)
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 are multiple pages:
ABES Teaching Pictures 2
ABES Teaching Pictures 3
In this set: human uses of stone, looking at rocks, weathering
Wall of fossilised stone, Agrigento, Sicily. Some of the fossils are ringed. The block shapes may relate to the wall being in a seismic zone.
Dolmen of limestone, The Burren, Ireland.
Angkor Wat, Cambodia, carvings.
Stone bridge, El Camino de Santiago di Compostela, Spain. Said to be Roman.
Hieroglyphics, Valley of the Kings, Egypt (Christine Macinnis).
Inca wall, Cusco, Peru. Compare this with the Sicilian wall above: this is also in a seismic zone.
Rock painting, Mitchell Plateau, north-east Western Australia,
Engraving of a shark, Hawkesbury sandstone Sydney. (The heterocercal tail tells us it is a shark, the whiteness tells us some idiot has been scratching at the engraving.)
Hand stencil, Malka's Cave near Wave Rock, Western Australia.
Go Micro clip-on embiggeners: I used these quite a bit in 2018.
Pumice floating in a bowl. For more about pumice, this blog entry shows where I started switching my interest over from life sciences to earthy things.
Pumice at close range.
Sandstone with quartz pebbles.
Weathering on Uluru.
Weathering in Triassic sandstone, Drawing Room Rocks, near Berry NSW
There are several more sets like this:
ABES Teaching Pictures 2
ABES Teaching Pictures 3
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