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Grade 12 Geologists Hit the Lab
This term, the Grade 12 Geology class had two field trips: one on April 28 to Blue Beach, and the other on May 6 to Acadia University.
The Blue Beach field trip involved a morning trek along the shoreline, guided by the Blue Beach Fossil Museum curator, Chris F. Mansky. The students started in the museum, looking at various specimens, including one of the oldest amphibian footprint fossils in the world! Mr. Mansky taught the students how to identify bone fossils on the beach and lectured on the Roamers Gap – which is a gap in the fossil record, which represent periods in the early Carboniferous period from which scientists have not yet found relevant fossils. Afterwards, the students had free time on the beach to search for fossils of their own!
On May 6, the students travelled to Acadia University in Wolfville to the Department of Earth and Environmental Science. Dr. Sandra Barr and Dr. David McMullin toured the students around the department, starting in the Acadia Petrographic Lab where Mr. Lucas Evans, the lab technician, showed the students how rocks are turned into thin sections for microscope analysis.
After, Dr. Barr and Dr. McMullin took the students to the microscope lab to analyze thin sections of different rock types. From the fine-grained sandstone to the colourful granite, the students looked at the minerals in the rocks under plane-polarized light.
The trip ended with a tour around the department looking at the rock samples that have been collected over the years, including a sample of a rock that is over four billion years old and a piece of a meteoroid!
Hannah Maguire
Senior School Faculty
Senior Girls Slo-Pitch Coach
The Blue Beach field trip involved a morning trek along the shoreline, guided by the Blue Beach Fossil Museum curator, Chris F. Mansky. The students started in the museum, looking at various specimens, including one of the oldest amphibian footprint fossils in the world! Mr. Mansky taught the students how to identify bone fossils on the beach and lectured on the Roamers Gap – which is a gap in the fossil record, which represent periods in the early Carboniferous period from which scientists have not yet found relevant fossils. Afterwards, the students had free time on the beach to search for fossils of their own!
On May 6, the students travelled to Acadia University in Wolfville to the Department of Earth and Environmental Science. Dr. Sandra Barr and Dr. David McMullin toured the students around the department, starting in the Acadia Petrographic Lab where Mr. Lucas Evans, the lab technician, showed the students how rocks are turned into thin sections for microscope analysis.
After, Dr. Barr and Dr. McMullin took the students to the microscope lab to analyze thin sections of different rock types. From the fine-grained sandstone to the colourful granite, the students looked at the minerals in the rocks under plane-polarized light.
The trip ended with a tour around the department looking at the rock samples that have been collected over the years, including a sample of a rock that is over four billion years old and a piece of a meteoroid!
Hannah Maguire
Senior School Faculty
Senior Girls Slo-Pitch Coach
King’s-Edgehill School is located in Mi'kma'ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq People.
