Yellowstone is the site of the largest geothermal system in North America, which is fueled by a giant magma reservoir that is only 4 km beneath the surface. The most recent supereruption took place 640,000 years ago, which ejected >1,0003 km (240 mi3) of material and produced the 45 x 85 km (28 x 53 mi) Yellowstone […]
Jani Radebaugh is a planetary scientist and an Associate Professor at Brigham Young University. Her research focuses primarily on three planetary satellites: Saturn’s moon Titan, Jupiter’s moon Io, and our own Moon. In conjunction with her extraterrestrial work, she uses terrestrial analogues to help us better understand other planetary processes. She visited western China in […]
This follows on from an earlier post, which documents the first half of a trip to China, myself and an undergraduate student from Royal Holloway made in 2012. In this part of the trip we were travelling from Lanzhou in the Gansu Province up the source of the Yellow River in Qinghai Province through Sichuan […]
Burma – or Myanmar – is one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia. It lies at an historically key geographical juncture between India, China and Southeast Asia, and is slowly emerging from decades of oppressive military rule. As a country, it remains extremely attractive to geologists for two principal reasons. Firstly, it is astonishingly […]
Several years ago, I had the opportunity to visit Pompeii and Vesuvius as part of a tour of the volcanoes of the Tyrrhenian Sea (here). Looking back through these photos, I am still amazed at the level of destruction of the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and yet the immense force of destruction also provided […]
