At 11.56 am Nepal time an earthquake of magnitude Mw 7.8 struck near Gorkha in the Nepal Himalaya (Fig. 1, 2). The epicentre of the earthquake was approximately 34 km ESE of Lamjung, 77 km WNW of Kathmandu and 73 km east of Pokhara. The hypocentre was at a relatively shallow depth of 15 km. […]
Background As a 4th year undergraduate geologist at Oxford University, I really relish the opportunity to work abroad and gain the experience of working as an exploration geologist. It’s fantastic that there are opportunities for me and my peers that send us half way across the world for 3 months in the summer. We are […]
Having recently accepted a research fellowship at Curtin University, my family and are in the process of immigrating to sunny Western Australia. In preparation for this transition, I traveled to Perth to get the lay of the land. My perusing took me to the southwest corner of Australia near the town of Albany. This corner of Australia […]
Beth is a PhD student at the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter. You can follow her on twitter @thegeogirl. In a PhD office of people studying rocks in Liberia, Senegal, South Africa and Brazil, my study, centering on the so-called “critical metals” (Li, Be, Nb, Ta, In, Sb, Sn, W and Bi) in the granites […]
Joel is a PhD candidate at the University of Reno. You can read more about his research here. New Guinea: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea In plan view, the mountainous island of New Guinea has been referred to as a bird flying west. This allows for the distinction of three geographical regions: the Bird’s Head […]
