Robison Bonebed, Idaho with LJ Krumenacker

LJ Krumenacker is a PhD student at Montana State University. LJ’s work was highlighted on several news agency’s. See phys.org’s report here.   The mid-Cretaceous is a time poorly represented in the terrestrial fossil record of North America. While paleontologists are getting a better understanding of this interval in North America, most of this information […]

Eclogites in Bhutan with Clare Warren

Bhutan: Elusive eclogites and their importance in Himalayan mountain-building   Clare is a senior research fellow at the Open University, UK and holds a NERC Advanced Research Fellowship.  Her research interests focus on the metamorphic and temporal evolution of plate collision zones: from subduction zone eclogites to melting during mountain-building episodes.  She her research profile […]

Kabul Block, Afghanistan with Stephen Collett

For the past four years, first as a master’s student at the University of Leicester, and later as a PhD Student at Charles University in Prague. I have been studying the metamorphic basement of the Kabul Block in Afghanistan. With its position within the extended Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt, mountainous terrain and limited vegetation; Afghanistan provides […]

Seram, Indonesia with Jon Pownall

Looking for rocks in the jungle  by Jon Pownall Jon recently finished his PhD with the SE Asia Research Group at Royal Holloway (supervised by Prof. Robert Hall) and has since started a post-doc at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. In September 2010 I travelled to the island of Ambon, eastern Indonesia, with […]

Flying over Scotland

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to join a friend in a single prop plane to some key geologic localities that can be observed from the air better than they can be seen from the ground. While most of us use Google Earth for that, seeing an oblique view from 2-3 thousand […]