University of Hull - Centre for Lifelong Learning

Tutor - Mike Horne FGS

Final Research Projects in Geology.

To achieve the University Foundation Award from the University of Hull students were required to attend at least five UFA 10 Credit courses and produce a "final piece of work" worth ten credits. The UFA was a level 4 qualification.

When part-time students registered to carry out the "final price" they were able to use many of the facilities at the University for the project that are normally available to full-time undergraduates.

Some of the projects that I have supervised include -

• Aspects of Boulder Clay Sedimentology along the Yorkshire Coast.
• A study of the erratics found in the Boulder Clay along the Holderness Coast.
• A study of the sedimentary layers of Boulder Clay at Mappleton, near Hornsea.
• Coastal erosion in Holderness
• Crystal healing - fact or fiction?
• Do the 'end of time' predictions in the Holy Bible have an origin in geological history?
• Fossils of the Holderness Coast
• Granites in thin section.
• Is there evidence for a glacial lake at Lea Green, Wharfdale?
• The coastal exposures of boulder clay erratics in Holderness.
• The geology of Betton Farm Quarry
• The possible effects of a tsunami on the east coast of England.
• The stratigraphy of the Red Chalk Formation at South Ferriby and the evolution of Neohibolites.
• Were the Dinosaurs warm bloodied?

Other group research projects have come out of the fieldwork of students on the courses -

• Palaeokarst features at South Newbald
• The Geology of the North Cave Wetlands
• The Quaternary geology of Flamborough Head
• The Geology of Skipsea Withow Mere.

And of course - once students completed their "final project" they could use their University Foundation Award to enter Higher Education or just continue attending the courses!

copyright Mike Horne - October 2016

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