Above is part of the pre-historic cave paintings at Lascaux in the Dordogne region of south-west France (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International). The creatures that still show clearly are deer (bottom centre), wild horse (top centre) and aurochs (centre right and left). Aurochs are extinct the last recorded female dying in Poland in the 17th […]
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Sentient means a creature (Man and others) which has the standard range of five senses and can have an emotional response to situations through those senses. Example – if a horse is pulling a cart and feels a whip strike across its back its sentient reaction is to run forward to try and escape the
The issue of the features of planet Earth’s features way back in geological times interests but I have not systematically taught myself about them. Evidence in the rocks has been analysed by geologists and paleontologists to the extent that standard maps have been drawn showing the Earth’s surface in the Ordovician geological era (s.p.b.). At
A photo from the 190s showing evidence of slate quarrying in North Wales in the distance. Slate originated as mudstones about 450 million years ago during the Ordovician geological era. Mudstones were formed by silt filtered by marine deposition, often at the mouth of large rivers. The flow of river water carrying silt in suspension
On the recent ‘houses’ walk round Pearson Park one thing we noted was that all the properties we looked at had roofs of Welsh slate. 90% of roofing slates come from the mines and quarries of the Snowdonia region of North Wales and are characterised by being grey, although can be of varying shades. Where
This black and white photo, undated but probably inter-War, is a favourite of mine. It shows a carriage of the Snowdon Light Railway pulled by a steam driven locomotive ascending the line from Llanberis to the peak of Mount Snowdon. Snowdon is the highest mountain peak in Wales at approx. 3500 feet above sea level,