So what you are seeing here is a tape recorder of time.
Each of those layers records an instant.
Time older to younger.
That looks good.
Three, two, one!
That's the difference between the soft
surface and the hard surface
Yep, so geology doesn't stop just because
we get our feet wet.
That one?
Yeah, just bigger.
Alright
Here is your sample.
It is 17.4.degrees.
It's cold eh?
Make sure you don't lose stuff out of it and put it into a plastic bag and we will wash
it onto a microscope slide tomorrow.
We found it in a puddle, very similar to this.
There were 4 or 5 of them there.
It could be in a mudfish.
Wow that's amazing!
The world's largest volcano is in Java in Indonesia.
My project is about groundwater.
Well I've got one with the container showing a comparison
of groundwater and water in lakes and
I've got another one with sand showing
the water soaking into the sand.
One with
marbles showing that the water sits
in between the particles and I've got a
microscope so you can look down and see
the particles.
So if you put CO2 into H2O then it makes it more acidic.
There are rocks from Henderson Bay, Coopers Beach, Waipapakauri
We've created a little sculpture of the mud volcano to
represent the bubbles and all that.
What's your favourite thing about the geocamp?
The thing I liked about the geocamp was all the different discoveries that were on our
back doorstep.
Discovering things we didn't even know existed.
It was going to Runaruna to see the mud volcano.
I didn't even know that it existed
What's your favourite thing about the geocamp?
Oh, um just all the learning and
all the places we went to, it's been really amazing
Probably opening my eyes to see the deeper meaning in
the landscapes that we've been walking around.
Chemistry.
You got to do more hands-on stuff
than you would do at
normal science at school
Learning our whole lot about the place I
lived in that I never knew about.
Chemistry in the water.
Learning all about the environment so we can help
make it better.
Every day it's something new and interesting to learn
Before I came on the geocamp I didn't like science
I thought it was boring, but since I've been here science is really interesting.
and fun.
It's way better than I thought.
Would you like to be a scientist in the future?
YES!
What would you like to study?
Um...paleontology and geology.