EVENT: Science Week Event at UWA

NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK What's On in the School of Earth & Geographical Sciences

A free illustrated talk for the general public: “Geological Journeys: from Artifacts to Zircon” Find out about the real bushranger Captain Starlight and what he was doing in the WA Geological Survey; how fossil pollen grains help us in archaeology and forensics; the sources of Aboriginal artifacts on the Swan Coastal Plain; emeralds, from Ancient Egypt to Western Australia; lightning stones of Western Australia; and the world's oldest crystals (here in WA!). NBThe book “Geological Journeys: from Artifacts to Zircon” by UWA scholar Dr John Glover will be available for purchase after the talk.