The Adventures of Kenny in.... a mine!
Well... Because MOE is giving me so little allowance, I have to supplement my income by working in mines... So here's Kenny in a hardhat and mining goggles and a bright yellow vest so that even deep down in the treacherous mines, Kenny can be easily spotted...

Ok, yah right... Only the first statement in the previous paragraph is true... ;p haha. Anyway, I had a GEOLOGY field trip to Ketton Quarry, Peterborough yesterday (12/10)! It was quite cool... field trip in week 1 of term! woohoo!

We set off from the Dep of Earth Sciences around 1.30pm, and after a long bus journey, we finally arrived at Ketton Quarry... and began our fieldwork... (damn.. they didn't tell us about having to do work initially...) We started looking at the different layers of rocks, how they were formed and geez, these things are 160 million years old! (that's the Jurassic period btw..)

Here we can see a group of students listening intently to our demonstrator Lez... And we can see the layers (bedding) of rocks behind him as well.. That black/grey-ish bit is called the Rutland Formation...

And this thing here (in Geology, we learn to take photos with a scale... so here's a comparison..) is a fossilised sea shell which is 160+ million years old... cool isn't it? =) In Singapore, we can only hear about all these fossils, but here, we can actually find them!

Here, we can see another fossil.. it's called a bivalve...(it's that white-looking thing above the pencil) ok, basically, it's just probably a mussel or an oyster... ;p And of course, we see my dear pencil as an object of scale too...

Yupz.. so basically we were quite fortunate, cos the weather held up till we left, when it started to drizzle and by the time we got back to Cambridge, I had to cycle back in rather wet weather... hmmz... But it was quite an enjoyable trip nonetheless and I'm definitely looking forward to the field trip to Arran (some island off Scotland..) which is during the Easter vacation... =)