Anna Bird is a postdoctoral researcher at Royal Holloway University of London. Read more about her research here. Thanks to Anna for the great post. In 2012 Abigail Alderson and I headed off to China to collect samples as part of a NERC funded project titled “Dust storms and Chinese loess sources over the last […]
More Palaeolimnology in Cappadocia with Jonathan Dean
Jonathan Dean is an Isotope Geochemist at the British Geological Survey. Here he discusses his latest trip to Turkey. See his other post about palaeolimnology in Cappadocia here. In early April 2014, I lectured on a field trip in Cappadocia, Turkey, where I taught students from Birmingham, Ankara and Isparta Universities about how we can […]
More of Hutton on Arran + video
In addition to the famous angular unconformity seen near Lochranza on the Isle of Arran, Hutton also made an important discovery concerning the emplacement of plutonic systems. The Isle of Arran is cored by a large circular granitic pluton. This Tertiary-age pluton is rimmed by the steeply dipping Dalradian Supergroup and the Old Red Sandstone. […]
James Hutton on the Isle of Arran
The Isle of Arran is often described as Scotland in miniature. It has it all: sheep, highland cattle, smoked fish, haggis, whiskey, cheese, and rocks. As for the rocks, Arran offers some of the best of Scottish geology contained on a 160 square mile island off the coast of the Firth of Clyde. Clockwise […]
Operation Iceberg – Richard Bates
Richard Bates is a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. See his website here. Operation Iceberg – Mapping the Changing face of Arctic Ice Over the past 5 years I have found my summers occupied by research expeditions to the Arctic. The projects began in 2009 with a request from colleagues […]