{"id":1330,"date":"2015-02-17T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2021-02-21T14:41:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:41:05","slug":"explore-the-geology-with-luna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/2015\/02\/17\/explore-the-geology-with-luna\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore the Geology with LUNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/UoEsha~5~5\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1334\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2015\/02\/LUNA3.jpg\" alt=\"LUNA3\" width=\"800\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2015\/02\/LUNA3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2015\/02\/LUNA3-500x427.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week we were very excited to see a new LUNA collection go live- &#8216;Geology &amp; Geologists&#8217;. This brings together images from the CRC&#8217;s Lyell collection (a wonderful mixture of correspondence and drawings), Arthur Holmes Geology medals, as well as recent images from The Cockburn Museum, School of GeoSciences. The Cockburn collection contains photographs of past Professors, and historic photos of the department as well as plates of fossilised fish.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/91e9km\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1332\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2015\/02\/0022910d.jpg\" alt=\"0022910d\" width=\"800\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2015\/02\/0022910d.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2015\/02\/0022910d-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2015\/02\/0022910d-500x494.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/xkw608\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1331\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2015\/02\/0013799d.jpg\" alt=\"Previously Gen.118\/3 Lyell 3\" width=\"800\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2015\/02\/0013799d.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2015\/02\/0013799d-500x200.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>There are even a couple of scrolls in the collection -see <a href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/n0z477\">http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/n0z477<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/4j92ph\">http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/4j92ph <\/a>. These fine examples of Charles Lyell&#8217;s\u00a0draughtsmanship required careful unrolling for photography and had to be photographed in sections and stitched back together in Photoshop, quite a challenge!<\/p>\n<p>We plan to add more images in the coming months, including some geology specimens, but in the meantime we hope you enjoy browsing!<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to my colleagues Grant Buttars, Gillian McCay, and Scott Renton for all their work to get this collection live.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Pettigrew, Photographer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we were very excited to see a new LUNA collection go live- &#8216;Geology &amp; Geologists&#8217;. This brings together images from the CRC&#8217;s Lyell collection (a wonderful mixture of<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/2015\/02\/17\/explore-the-geology-with-luna\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explore the Geology with LUNA<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[66,68,70,94,84],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}