Millions of years of geopark history on display
A TWO-DAY half-term event in Torquay's Union Square was held to introduce the public to the exciting geology of Torbay.
As well as children's activities, there were displays of curious rocks from around the Bay, revealing evidence of strange sea creatures and plants from millions of years ago.
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tour: Geologist Chris Proctor with Geohub outreach officer Leah Whitcher and Hungarian geology student Nicolett Cvorvasi, right in Union Square
Part of the event included a short geology tour to reveal evidence of corals locked up for millions of years in our English Riviera Geopark rocks. Colin Vosper, a trustee of Torquay Museum, said: "I went on the first tour and was amazed at the sights which were there for all to see in Market Street, only a short walk from Union Square.
"With Chris Proctor leading the tour, a whole new world of long ago was explained with the rocks revealing their tales of tropical lagoons, storms creating shattered corals, curiously shaped sponges and other fossils of sea creatures from millions of years ago."
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Torquay Museum and its staff are busy on a Future Museums' Project, bringing together the work of the three accredited museums in the Bay: Torquay Museum, Torre Abbey Museum and Brixham Heritage Museum.
The outreach programme in Union Square was to promote the role of Torquay Museum as part of the three museums' partnership as the Geopark Gateway into the world of the English Riviera Geopark.
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by RivieraPalms
Friday, March 01 2013, 8:44PM
“Millions of years ago? That reminds me of a Herald Express story from a few years ago where a guy from Kents Cavern said that the whole of Lyme Bay at some point in the past threw itself (somehow though we know not how) into the air, flipped itself like a pancake, and then landed upside down. Quite an event! What's really going on is that the geological record doesn't match up with their theories so rather than accept the evidence they twist it until it fits (the obvious) fallacy. Turns out that the older stuff is on the top and the younger stuff on the bottom. They can't accept a flood did this as its seen as a religious belief, though a flood would explain perfectly how objects of different weights and compositions settled as they did.
When man landed on the moon it was expected by NASA that there would be literally feet of dust on its surface by virtue of that rock being billions of years old yet when they landed there was only a few inches. I'm reminded of Winston Smith during his torture being told that the stars are as far away or as close as we say they are, the evidence doesn't matter, objective truth is irrelevant, only what we (the social engineers) say is relevant, truly this has come to pass, though thankfully it hasn't fully met their expectations.”