1954 Our
first foreign field trip - the Wye Valley, England;
Chepstow (Brian
'Lanky' Lewis, Deputy Minister of Education, NWT
Government; Prof. Bill Church; John Hunt, chief
investment counsellor for the Welsh Teachers Union;
Ken Francis, former principal bass with the Sadlers
Wells Opera Company) Tintern
Abbey, Symmonds Yat
Rock;
1954 The
fruit of six years of learning French with Madame
Henry - the Brioverian of
Brittany, France Le
Faou;
1955 Trip
down the Rhine Graben to the Black Forest graben
shoulder, camping at the
Belgian/Dutch border,
the Eiffel Tower
(Brian Hawkins, left; Billy Bridges right)
1956 Scandinavia,
oil
shales, the Cambro-Orodovician transition; pyrite,
uranium and Wolfrum mines;
summer
employment on the the M/S 'Fjelheim' coastal carrier
out of Trondheim, arrival in Happaranda- Tornio+antlers
1957 Ben Nevis, Scotland,
Norwegian
anorthosites (Prof. Michot, University of
Liege, Belgium)
1959 Grad students, Cardiff
- Tony
Bazley (later to become Director Geological Survey
of Northern Ireland), and Terry Smith ( Senior
Professor of Geology at
Windsor University).
1959 Ireland
- Ballyshannon,
Loch Derg psammites; Donegal Bay;
Unconformity,
Carboniferous overlying Lough Derg psammites, Beleek
road near Ballyshannon.
1963
On campus - Frank Anglin, UWO
geophysics graduate and member of the Seismology
Division of the Geological Survey of Canada.
1963 Sept
21 Rare group
photograph showing the Department Faculty at
that time of the 'Great Expansion', including Jackie
Ainge, Harold and Ruby Reavely, Gordon Suffel, Alex and
Anita Dreimanis, Gordon and Jean Winder; and the
most recent additions Gant Young, Alan and Shirley
Edgar, and myself
and Monique, the couple whose marriage was being
celebrated. Best men were Frank Anglin of the
Geophysics Department, and Sean Ward of the
English Department.
1964-5? Annual shoot the Profs
day - Garth Platt, Chris Gunn, Fergus
Graham, ?, ?
1964-5? A friendly game of football
- Bill Church (with 3 legs!), Hugh Rance, George
Pinder, Fergus Graham, Chris Gunn, Jesse Kraft.
1966 California
, Franciscan eclogites - Prof.
Grant
Young; Bill Church
1967 Gander Conference
- George Cockburn (2nd from the right kneeling; Bob
Stevens (above and to the left of George Cockburn);
Marshall Kay (3rd from right;
Bill Church (2nd form
left first row standing)); also Bill Poole, Brad
Hall, Rodney Gayer, Don Bowes, Jim Skehan, Jack
Bird, John Rogers.
1968 Mexico
-
Prof. Grant Young (
Lower Cretaceous carbonates, south of Cuernavaca); Eocene continental
conglomerates of the Morelos basin)
1969 Newfoundland
- Bob Stevens, flat lying
Ordovician carbonates, west coast of the Great
Northern Peninusula; coast of Labrador lie in the
far distance across the Straits of
Belle Isle; year of the discovery of the
significance of the Betts Cove sheeted diabase to
the interpretation of the western Newfoundland ophiolites as 'oceanic'
crust.
1969
Graduate
students c. 1969 (courtesy of Kam Chaing
via Charlie Blackburn); Names
Grandfather Charlie Blackburn
1971 Newfoundland -
Luca Riccio standing below 'Sheeted diabase' at Mine
Brook, Blow Me Down, Bay of Islands Newfoundland.
1971 Newfoundland -
Luca Riccio and Darrel Long looking at rippled Kings
Point sandstones, Newfoundland.
1972 Newfoundland -
Professor Giovanni Piccardo (University of Genoa),
anorthosite/dunite layers in ultramafic cumulates of
the Bay of Islands ophiolite.
IGCP 1972 -
International Geological Congress field excursion to
the Huronian, 1972, led by Bill Church and Grant
Young (squatting, long hair); Professor Gilbert Choubert
in foreground; 1
billion year old Keweenawan ropy lava, Mamainse
Point
1974
Morocco - Desert
friends; Tree
climbing
1975 HE
WAS
KNOWN AS CASTRO!
APRIL
1ST
- The
good old days!! (Notice the Commodore PET, middle
left!)
1979-1989
Egypt - Hitchhikers! Professor Maher Takla
(right) and Dr Fawzi Basta (left); ancient rock grinding implement,
Atud gold mine; an
abandoned sarcophagus; heiroglyphics
and Alexandrian Greek script found on the ancient
road (now paved) linking Quseir on the Red Sea to
the Nile Valley (near Qena)
1982 Saudi Arabia - The
sad end of the Ottoman Hejaz express (Mada'in
Saleh), courtesy of Lawrence of Arabia and the
Wahabi bedouin. (photograph taken before the recent
renovation of the station - see: http://www.galenfrysinger.com/hejaz_railroad.htm
)
The Nabitean
civilization in Saudi Arabia - the
first Middle East conflict over oil; see: http://www.datadubai.com/oil3.htm
, "the politics of oil in the
ancient Middle East sealed
the fate of Antony and Cleopatra."
WHAT WAS SAID...........
Evolution
versus creationism; Islam and Evolution -
Preston Cloud
The
eclogitic
rocks of Western Ireland and Newfoundland
The
serendipitous
relationship between eclogite and ophiolite in
Newfoundland
Links
between the Newfoundland Appalachians and the
Irish and Scottish Caledonides: eclogites,
ophiolites, olistoliths
Historiography:
Low
Ti basalts – Boninites – Cyprus – Betts Cove
The Caledonian -
Appalachian system of Scotland/Ireland,
Newfoundland Burlington
Peninsula, Western
Newfoundland,
Southern
Quebec, and Eastern
New
England - Maritimes - Avalonia - Anglesey
Anglesey
The Early Proterozoic
Southern Structural Province of Ontario
The Late Proterozoic
Nubian Shield of Egypt
The
Late
Proterozoic Nubian Shield of Saudi Arabia -
contains an important link to the most recent
geological map of Saudi Arabia
The Late Proterozoic
continental margin of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas
KML/KMZ
FILES - go to http://instruct.uwo.ca/earth-sci/fieldlog/Google_Earth/
for a complete listing of available .kmz files.
http://instruct.uwo.ca/earth-sci/fieldlog/Google_Earth/Geology_WRChurch.kmz
- all data
http://instruct.uwo.ca/earth-sci/fieldlog/Google_Earth/Anglesey.kml
- Anglesey only
http://instruct.uwo.ca/earth-sci/fieldlog/Google_Earth/Avalon_Nashoba.kmz-
the Avalon_Nashoba terranes of southeast New England,
including links to
field
stops of the 2007 NEGSA field trip: Hon, R. , Hepburn,
J.C. & Lair, Jo. 2007. Siluro-Devonian igneous
rocks of the easternmost three terranes in
southeastern
New England: examples from NE Massachusetts and SE New
Hampshire. Guidbook to field trips in New Hampshire,
adjacent Maine and
Massachusetts, 42nd Ann Meet. NEGSA, March 11 2007, p.
23-43 (20).
http://instruct.uwo.ca/earth-sci/fieldlog/cal_napp/napp/new_eng_maritimes/Nashoba_Avalon/NEGSAFT_F4.pdf
http://instruct.uwo.ca/earth-sci/fieldlog/Google_Earth/Grenville.kmz
- the Grenville Front in the Sudbury region of Ontario
COURSES
SHORT COURSE
DEALING WITH THE INTEGRATION OF GPS, EXPERTGPS,
EXCEL AND ARCGIS9.1
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PLATE TECTONICS
- this course is now being taught by
Dr Lewinscky and these notes no longer apply.
Movie: Subduction
model of Gurnis
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~gurnis/Movies/movies-more.html,
1.7 Mb; needs Quicktime)
Movie:
Raft Tectonics of the Kwanza Basin, Angola:
Resoration of a Seismic Section, by G.
Guglielmo (www.utexas.edu/research/beg/giovanni/
3.7 Mb)
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GEOLOGY
OF NORTH AMERICA - this course is
now discontinued!!!
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Earth Science 350Y
3RD-YEAR
GEOLOGY FIELD COURSE
Field
camp, CLASS OF 99
350Y
Field Camp, CLASS OF 00
350Y Field Camp, CLASS OF 01
350Y Field Camp, CLASS OF 02
350y Field Camp CLASS OF 03
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GIS
IN GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS
GSMCAD,
USGS mapping freeware
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Earth Science Geochemistry
(currently not offered)
INTRODUCTORY
GEOCHEMISTRY/THERMODYNAMICS
Notes:
Mixing Calculations.
Notes:
thermodynamics I
Notes: thermodynamics II
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1st year course: THE SEA
Notes
- Plate Tectonics: from Mantle to Crust
Notes
- Plate Tectonics: from Crust to Ocean
Reading
Material
Some
'EARTH SYSTEM' numbers!
Some
stuff off the internet.
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LEARN ALL ABOUT:
Sir William Logan - link to
much information about the life of Sir
William Logan
Logan and Geology - Sir William Logan and the
Taconic Problem by Bob Stevens, 1964
William
Smith - the father of modern geology
The
Map that changed the World: William Smith
and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon
Winchester, Harper Collins, 336pp,
$37.95.
Reviewed
in the Globe and Mail, Sat. Aug 11th
2001, by John Wilson;
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE
TAYLOR LIBRARY- EARTH SCIENCE
Some useful call
numbers:
AAPG
TN860.A3;
Am. Geo. Un Geodyn. Ser
QD901.A2; AJS Q1A5;
Am.
Min
QE351.A7;
Ann. Rev. E. Plan QE1.A674;
Aust. JES QE1.A1E6;
BGSA
QE1.G2;
BGS Abst.
QE1.G19;
BGS France QE1.S6312;
Bull.
Volc.
QE521.5.B8;
CJES
QE1.C35;
Can. Min. QE351.C35;
Chem.
Geol.
QE515.C34;
CIMBull.
TN1.C18;
CRAS Paris Q46.A23;
Cont.
Min. Pet.
QE351.B45;
EPSL
QE1.E12;
E. Sci. Rev. QE1.E14;
Econ.
Geol.
QE1.E15;
EOS
P1.A1E6;
EOS Trans QE 500.A6;
Episodes
QE1.I.762
O;
GAC Abst QE1.G222 O;
GAC
Field Guid QE188.G254
O;
Geochim. Cosmo. Acta. QE351.G34;
Geol.J.
QE1.G14;
Geol. J. Japan
QE1.G35;
Geol. Mag. QE1.G15;
Geol.
Soc. Am. Memoirs
QE1.G21
Geology of North America QE71.G48
Geol.
Soc. Am Spec Papers QE1.G222
O;
Geol. Mijn. QE1.G76;
Geol.
Rund
QE1.G8;
Geology
QE1.G528;
Geotectonics QE500.G46;
Geotimes
QE1.G86;
Indian JES
QE1.I535;
Int. Geol. Rev. QE1.I7;
JGS
QE1.G4;
JGS Aust.
QE1.G226;
JGS India QE1.G34;
J.
Geol.
QE1.J8;
J. Geoph. Res.
QC811.J8;
J. Pet. QE420.J7;
J.
Str. Geol.
QE601.J38;
Lithos
QE39.M37;
Min. Mag. QE351.T8;
Nature
Q1.N2;
Nor. Geol. Tids.
QE1.N67;
Ph. Tr. RS London Q41.L79;
Phys.
E. Plan Int.
QE509.P58; Prec.
Res. QE655.P74;
Pr.
Lun Plan Sc Conf. QB592.L85
(Med);
Pr. Roy. Soc. Lond. Q41.G7;
Sch.
Min Pet. Mit. QE351.S34;
Science
Q1.S35;
Sci. Terre QE1.S218;
Scot.
JG
QE1.S26;
Tectonics
QE500.T428;
Tectonophysics QE500.T43;
Tr.
GS S.Africa
QE1.G48;
Tr. RS Edin.
Q41.E2;
Min.Pet. QE351.T8;
Volc.
J. QD901.Z5;
SEG
LECTURES
The Student Chapter, University
of Western Ontario, Society of Economic
Geologists (SEG) held a highly successful
one-day Short Course entitled "Geology and
Metallogeny of the Grenville Province" on March 4, 2005.
Details of the Short Course, including
Speakers, Schedule of Talks,
Registration and Accommodation can be found
at the following website:
http://seg.earthsciences.ca
If you need further information
contact Dr. Norm Duke, nduke@uwo.ca ,
Duncan Bain, dbain3@uwo.ca , or Jeff Cormier, jcormie@uwo.ca
SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC
GEOLOGISTS, UWO STUDENT CHAPTER SHORT COURSE ON THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS
OF NUNAVUT TERRITORY, FEBRUARY 2000
AN OVERVIEW
OF THE GEOLOGY OF NUNAVUT BY DAVID SCOTT
A BRIEF SNAPSHOT OF THE
WESTERN CHURCHILL AND NORTHERN SLAVE
PROVINCES BY CAROLYN RELF
KIMBERLITE FIELDS OF NUNAVUT
BY JOHN ARMSTRONG
DOWBANK GOLD
DEPOSITS, NUNAVUT BY BRIAN ALEXANDER
GLOBAL
WARMING, KYOTO, etc - who to believe?
The position
of the Geological Association of Canada
(GAC) versus that of the Canadian Society
of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG).
GAC - (i)
that climate changes, naturally;
CSPG
- Global climate change is a natural and
continual process on Earth. Climate
changes similar to and much more severe
than those happening today have occurred
repeatedly throughout historic and
geologic time, as the result of many
natural factors.
CSPG
- 1. Global climate change has been a
constant throughout the history of the
Earth, driven by a variety of global and
astronomical natural factors. The
variability of and interactions among
these factors are the subjects of active
research, but are still very poorly
understood by climate scientists.
Observations of past climatic variations
show much better correlation with
astronomical variables such as solar
activity and orbital changes than they do
with atmospheric CO2 levels.
GAC - (ii)
that greenhouse gas emissions have made a
positive contribution to warming of the
size of current increases, but the
buffering mechanisms need to be better
understood before we can tell just how
strong an effect the emissions have;
CSPG
- Climate science is only beginning to
understand these factors and their
interactions. There is no
significant evidence, and certainly no
"scientific consensus",
that greenhouse gases produced by humans
are driving any unusual climate changes.
CSPG
- 2. Since the beginning of the 20th
century, atmospheric CO2 has risen with
accelerated production of CO2 by human
activities. However, using the best
attempts to remove biases from temperature
data, there is not a good correlation
between atmospheric CO2 and global
temperatures.
GAC - (iii)
that, while we get a better grip on such
climate modelling, a cautionary approach
should be taken, including effort to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions;
CSPG
- Mankind's greatest efforts to reduce
production of carbon dioxide, a natural
component of the atmosphere essential to
all life, will not significantly affect
future climate change. The climate
will change naturally, and mankind must
adapt, as all life has done throughout the
Earth's history. We should not be
distracted from the worthwhile goals of
using all resources wisely, and of
reducing our production of polluting
chemicals that are truly harmful to life
on Earth. (see Quirks and Quarks below)
CSPG
- 3. Global circulation models attempt to
represent climatic influences with
numerical equations, and are used to
predict future climate variations.
However, they are hampered by our poor
understanding of the relationships and
feedback loops among many of the key
variables. GCM predictions of
warming trends through the 21st century
have decreased systematically as the
models have become more sophisticated.
CSPG
- 4. These observations suggest that
global climate change is a natural and
fundamental part of earth history, and
that the effects of human activities on
global climate are no more than a
poorly-understood fourth-order factor.
GAC - (iv)
that geoscience has lots to offer in
predicting the impact of global warming;
CSPG
- ?
GAC - (v)
that smart geoscience has many
applications in our adaptation to current
warming and its consequences.
CSPG
- ?
Recent
2005 EPICA core data discussion
Everybody wins, everybody
loses!! Antarctic core data shows
that periods of CO2 increase (to c. 290
ppm/v) and consequent global warming are
kick-started with the termination of the
orbital cooling cycle when CO2 values have
decreased to values of c. 190 ppm/v.
The current CO2 values of 380 ppm/v are
therefore well above the normal CO2
concentration at the present stage of the
orbital cycle.
During the
cooling part of the cycle CO2 is
progressivly dissolved in ocean water; the
relatively rapid release of CO2 once the
asymmetric warming part of the cycle
commences is perhaps related to loss of
solubility of the CO2 and the physical
displacement of CO2 rich deep ocean waters
towards the surface.
Acknowledgment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carbon_Dioxide_400kyr.png
;
http://www.realclimate.org/
- Index -> Arctic and Antarctic
Climate: -> 650,000 years of
greenhouse gas concentrations
LINKS TO
GLOBAL WARMING WEB SITES
PRO
http://www.realclimate.org/
Climatic
Research Unit - University of East Anglia
CONTRE
Still Waiting
for Greenhouse - John L. Daly's lukewarm
website
CSPG
POSITION ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE -
WEBSITE
CSPG_Climate_Change_Backgrounder
by D.L. Barss, A. Patterson, and A.F.
Jacobs (PDF File).
deFreitus,
C. 2002, Are Observed Changes in the
Concentration of Carbon Dioxide in the
Atmosphere
Really Dangerous? Bulletin of Canadian
Petroleum Geology, 50, 2, p. 297-327 (PDF
File).
http://www.climateaudit.org
http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=4
MEDIA
Geological
Society of London Meeting, March 25-27
2003 - Coping
with Climate Change
Quirks
and Quarks - CBC Radio
Scientific
American
DATA
US
Environmental Protection Agency
US
Historical Climatology Network Data Set
World
Temperature Data Repository
RECORD ICE LOSS IN THE
ARCTIC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2558319.stm
Welcome to
climate change in Canada -
http://adaptation.nrcan.gc.ca/posters/cc_en.asp
"A natural
system known as the "greenhouse effect"
regulates the temperature on earth.
Human activities have the potential to
disrupt the balance of this system. As
human societies adopt increasingly
sophisticated and mechanized lifestyles,
the amounts of heat-trapping gases in
the atmosphere have been increased. By
increasing the amount of
these gases, humankind has enhanced the
warming capability of the natural
greenhouse effect. It is the
human-induced enhanced greenhouse effect
that causes environmental concern.
It has the potential to warm the planet
at a rate that has never been
experienced in human history."
"
The increase in temperature was not
constant, but rather consisted of
warming and cooling cycles at intervals
of several decades."
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Broecker,
W.S. 2001. Glaciers That
Speak in Tongues and other tales of
global warming. Natural History
110 (8): 60-69.
A Conservative commentary from
the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide
and Global Change:
The Little Ice Age, a period
(Broecker) refers to as "a cold
episode that ran from about 1300 to
1860."
.....roughly half the overall warming
since 1860 occurred before carbon
dioxide (CO2) emissions from human
activities had reached significant
levels.
......The
most recent of such (warm) episodes, of
course, would be the Medieval Warm
Period (another climatic phenomenon the
climate alarmists are wroth to
recognize) and before that the Roman
Warm Period.
..... the concluding
words of Broecker, "we can state with
some confidence that natural Holocene
temperature fluctuations have been on
the same scale as the human-caused
effects estimated to result from
greenhouse gases." Hence, as he
continues, "we cannot assume that in the
absence of human intervention, earth's
temperatures would have remained
stable." Yes, there is absolutely no way
for proponents of CO2 emission
regulations to prove their case,
especially when all indications suggest
that nothing climatically out of the
ordinary is even on the verge of
happening, or, as climate alarmists are
irrationally wont to claim, has already
happened. But "does this mean we
can all sit back, do nothing, and wait
for the results to roll in?"
Broecker answers his rhetorical question
with a Certainly not. We, however,
say Yes, especially with respect to
committing the nations of the
earth to mandatory CO2 emissions
reductions.
With
respect to this difference of opinions,
it is important to note that they are
just that, opinions. Broecker
bases his on a belief in the adequacy of
current climate models. We base
ours on a belief in their inadequacy, as
well as the weight of evidence discussed
above, plus the likelihood we will need
all the atmospheric CO2 we can muster in
the years ahead to prevent the
catastrophic shortages of food and water
that will otherwise likely materialize
(see our Editorials of 1 October 1999, 1
February 2000, 15 November 2000, 21
February 2001, 2 May 2001, 13 June
2001).
Although we
thus disagree with Broecker on what he
thinks we should be doing about the
ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content,
we have not the slightest doubt about
the sincerity of his expressed
belief. And we have nothing but
the greatest admiration for his
scientific insight and integrity.
If everyone on both sides of the issue
were as forthcoming as he is with
respect to these matters, it would be a
far, far better world.
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Other
"Global Warming" data sources
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July 2003
Shaviv, N.J. and Weizer, J.,
2003. GSA Today, Celestial driver of
Pherozoic climate?, 13, 7. p. 4-10.
Phanerozoic climatic
indicators and reconstructed pCO2 levels,
Figure 1.
Abstract:
"...analyze the reconstructed seawater
paleotemperature record for the
Phanerozoic ... , and compare it with the
variable cosmic ray flux (CRF) reaching
Earth and with the reconstructed partial
pressure of atmospheric CO2
(pCO2). ....at least 66% of the
variance in the paleotemperature trend
could be attributed to CRF variations
likely due to solar system passages
through the spiral arms of the galaxy.
...We propose a tentative upper limit to
the long-term "equilibrium" warming effect
of CO2,
one which is potentialy lower than that
based on general circulation models."
"the
global climate possesses a stabilizing
negative feedback. A likely condidate for
such a feedback is cloud cover (Lindzen,
1997; Ou, 2001). If so, it would imply
that the water cycle is the thermostat of
climate dynamics, acting both as a
positive (water vapor) and negative
(clouds) feedback, with the carbon cycle
"piggybacking" on, and being modified by
the water cycle (Neumani et al, 2002;
Lovett, 3002; Lee and Veizer, 2003)."
But.....
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The
other concern - Pollution and
Health:
November
23, 2002 on Quirks & Quarks: When
Smoke Ran Like Water:
Over the past
few decades, you could say that we've
made enormous gains in linking
environmental pollution to human health
problems. We've taken the lead out of
gasoline and paint; we've
restricted or banned smoking in
airplanes and most public
buildings; we've put catalytic
converters on cars; we've taken asbestos
out of our walls. But according to
Dr. Devra Davis, governments and
industry have consistently ignored or
even discredited the link between
pollution and health. In her new
book, she documents a long history of
"death by contaminants", and calls
for a new war against environmental
deception.
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Happily married for
50 years to Monique Coutant, a retired French
Immersion school teacher, and animal trainer (Cwmparc/Treorchy in the distance), who vastly improved my school-learnt French, and introduced me to oysters,
lobsters, mussels, coq au vin, and of
course the wines of the world! Also, a
semi-ardent year-round cyclist, who very much enjoys
Saturday pick-up soccer (shirts v
skins), hours on the internet, growing beans and garlic in the 'back' garden, and sub-standard
'bricolage' around the house. May on occasion be
tempted (less and less likely!) to trip the light fantastic.
Ambition: to catch up on my vastly deteriorated ability to
speak Welsh, and
play on the piano and recorder with some
measure of competence all the tunes in the Caneuon Cenedlaethol Cymru. 
