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 […]
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 […]
Ron Harris is a Professor of Geological Sciences at Brigham Young University and is the Founder and Chief of Research and Development for the nonprofit organization, In Harms Way. It was one of those rare, shining moments of feeling instrumental – of making a connection between what we love doing and the needs of others. Such […]
Yarlung river, flowing at the geological boundary between Pre-Eocene Asia and India Douwe in Venice By Douwe van Hinsbergen In the summer of 2013, an international team of Earth Scientists undertook a field trip to the Indus-Yarlung suture zone, which demarcates the fault zone where since early Cretaceous time the Neotethyan Ocean subducted into the […]
Great Salt Lake, Jordan River, and mapping in my backyard
