Sasha Says - Geological timescale

<p>May 2020</p> <p><strong>Radio announcer: </strong>Time to talk Geopark once again. Joined by Geo educator Sasha Morriss. Sasha, still working from home at the moment.</p> <p><strong>Geoeducator: </strong>That's right, yes, I'm still working remotely.</p> <p><strong>Radio announcer: </strong>But you've been really active and busy, I guess.</p> <p><strong>Geoeducator: </strong>Oh, yeah. Look, it's been a really good opportunity for us just to develop a lot more online resources. So we've got a kids page up and running, lots of activities in kid friendly language. And we've also set up a resources page specifically for teachers to use. Now, teachers, you know, not just in schools, teachers are parents, teachers are family members. So if you've got children that you care for or in your life, jump online and have a look. And there might be some resources there that the people in your family find interesting.</p> <p><strong>Radio announcer: </strong>Now, one of the things you have been working on, I understand, is about timelines.</p> <p><strong>Geoeducator: </strong>That's right. Yes. So geological timescales and timelines is what we've been working on lately. And that's available online now. So we've got some text around that explaining what is the geological time scale and also the time scale itself. And it has been drawn up in a column form. So just to run over it briefly, the geological time scale is massive. It's very difficult for us to get our minds around, you know, millions of years. So what we've done is we've re created one specifically for the Waitaki District that tells the story of Zealandia. So everything on this geological timescale to date relates back to things that we discuss in Kids Corner. So there's nothing in there that's going to throw you and think, oh, what's that? It's all things that you can cross reference to Kids corner. And it covers right from when New Zealand was part of Gondwana - basement rocks were being formed through to the separation of Zealandia. And then what we see recorded