Some stunning river valley scenery heading west along SH6, following Buller River from #Lyell (southern terminus of the Old Ghost Road) to #Westport on the #WestCoast, on (mostly) good tarmac.

🚐 #VanLife #Motorhome #CamperVan #RV #Travel #RoadTrip #Nomad 🇳🇿 #Aotearoa #NZ #NewZealand 🤔🌲🧭❤️ #CREWmission 📷 #Photography

A slide from a talk I gave recently to the #Ely and District Archaeological Society - Charles #Lyell who was born #OnThisDay.

In September 1859, Lyell, who was the President of the Geological Section, gave the opening address at the Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Having previously been a sceptic on the theory of the ‘Antiquity of Man’, Lyell gave his support to Prestwich and Evans: “...I am fully prepared to corroborate the conclusions which have been recently laid before the Royal Society by Mr. Prestwich, in regard to the age of the flint implements associated in undisturbed gravel, in the north of France, with the bones of elephants, at #Abbeville and Amiens.”

#geology #HistoryOfScience #GeologicalArchaeology #Palaeolithic

A day like today( November 14), but in 1747, Charles Lyell was born. Pioneer of modern geology and whose thinking greatly influenced the work of Darwin

#geology #Lyell #earthsciences