 PD1: Round and Round with Rocks and Minerals
(The rock cycle and crustal geology)
A guided journey through the rock cycle from intrusion to mineralised veins, volcano to sediment and everything inbetween and how we mine and utilise geo-resources
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PD2: Riding the Climate Roller Coaster
Looks back over the last 4.6 billion years to find the drivers of climate change throughout geological time and discusses the impact climate fluctuations have had in the past as revealed by the rock record. This PD also examines the additional impact human activity is thought to have and the geological evidence for it and provides guidance on how teachers and students can access raw data to evaluate the results for themselves.
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PD3: Greening coal (carbon capture and storage)
Discusses the origins of coal, the processes of coal formation and the methods by carbon capture and storage technologies can be utilised to reduce greenhouse emissions from coal and other hydrocarbons and the role renewable technologies can play.
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PD4: Fossil sunlight (the hydrocarbon story)
Highlights the geology of the conversion of the sun's energy into chemical energy and its storage in hydrocarbons. Discusses the methods employed by exploration geologists to find hydrocarbons within rocks that are hundreds of millions of years old.
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PD5: Wet rocks (ground water)
Examines the importance of groundwater in the story of the hydrological cycle and its role in everything from dry land salinity to sustainable farming.
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PD6: Hot rocks (geothermal energy)
Hot rocks examines the role geothermal energy plays across the globe at the moment and the future role it can play, with current Australian developments highlighting the value of this new technology.
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Powerful stuff (the uranium debate)
Examines the geology and physics of uranium and how this fuel works in modern reactors and places the common fears associated with this technology in context.
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Our Place in Space
Discusses the position we occupy on planet Earth within the context of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere.
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