Journey to the Centre of the Earth

The French author Jules Verne (1828-1905) is often called ‘the father of science fiction’. This is because he wrote about space, air and underwater travel in his novels before rockets, aeroplanes and submarines were invented. His characters travel long distances in hot air balloons,2 make journeys to the south and north poles and travel in space. [...]

The Hidden Parchment

A volcano is an opening (a vent) in a planet’s surface, which allows hot magma (liquid rock), ash and gases to escape. This event is called a volcanic eruption. During an eruption, pressure in the magma chamber forces magma up the main vent, towards the crater at the top of the volcano. Some magma will also be forced out of the secondary vent at the side of the volcano. When the magma reaches the surface, it is called lava. [...]

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The Journey to Snaefells

The Descent into the Crater

Era Period Millions of Years Ago   Permian 286 to 248   Carboniferous 360 to 286 Paleozoic Devonian 408 to 360   Silurian 438 to 408   Ordovician 505 to 438   Cambrian 570 to 500 Life on Earth originated about 2 billion years ago, but the earliest good fossils come from the Cambrian period, which began about 570 million years ago. [...]

The Two Tunnels

The Dark Labyrinth

Era Period Epoch Millions of Years Ago     Holocene 0.01   Quaternary Pleistocene 2     Pliocene 5 Cenozoic Tertiary Miocene 24     Oligocene 38     Eocene 54     Paleocene 65 Mesozoic Cretaceous   146 to 65   Jurassic   208 to 146   Jurassic   248 to 208 The Mesozoic Era – the Age of Reptiles The climate in the Mesozoic Era was warmer than now and the sea levels higher. There was no ice at the north and south poles. [...]

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The Granite Cave

The Voyage across the Sea

The Prehistoric Forest

The End of the Journey

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