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 […]
A few weeks ago, I took a pseudo-holiday with the family to the eastern Pyrenees. The Pyrenees offers many (if not most) of the features seen in large collisional orogenies (e.g. Alps and Himalaya) but on a much smaller scale. Because of this, much of our understanding of orogenic basins and reactivated orogenic basement come […]
by Kellen Gunderson The 19th century industrial revolution was powered by coal. In the United States most of that coal came from a region in Northeastern Pennsylvania called the anthracite coal belt. Coal was first discovered there in the late 18th century and commercial coal mining began in the early 19th century with the formation […]
Paulo César Boggiani – Geoscience Institute, São Paulo University see Paulo’s website here South American cratons and Neoproterozoic cover and fold belts (after Misi et al. 2007). One of the most puzzling questions in the geological record is the cause of the major Cambrian diversification of the animals, the so-called “Cambrian Explosion”. Some ideas […]
