Ophiolites are giant thrust sheets comprised of oceanic crust and upper mantle rocks that have been emplaced (obducted) onto a previously passive continental margin. The Oman – UAE (United Arab Emirates) ophiolite is a 15-20 thick slice of Tethyan oceanic crust and upper mantle rocks, underlain by a granulite-amphibolite-greenschist facies ‘Metamorphic sole’. It has been […]
Ria is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Natural History Museum in London who uses new physical and chemical analytical methods to characterize modern-day primitive soils and mineral substrates associated with cryptogamic ground covers – You can read more about here research here.
Helen is working on a PhD at the University of Glasgow with a focus on geothermal energy in the East African Rift. Read more about Helen here.
Jonathan Dean is a postdoc at the British Geological Survey. Here he shows some of his holiday snaps from Ecuador and highlights the interesting geology of the country.
Lydian is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University working with Douwe van Hinsbergen on the the Mesozoic (252-66 million years ago) plate tectonic evolution of the paleo-Pacific Ocean. You can read more about her research here.
