The Isle of Arran is often described as Scotland in miniature. It has it all: sheep, highland cattle, smoked fish, haggis, whiskey, cheese, and rocks. As for the rocks, Arran offers some of the best of Scottish geology contained on a 160 square mile island off the coast of the Firth of Clyde. Clockwise […]
Richard Bates is a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. See his website here. Operation Iceberg – Mapping the Changing face of Arctic Ice Over the past 5 years I have found my summers occupied by research expeditions to the Arctic. The projects began in 2009 with a request from colleagues […]
Ron Harris is a Professor of Geological Sciences at Brigham Young University and is the Founder and Chief of Research and Development for the nonprofit organization, In Harms Way. It was one of those rare, shining moments of feeling instrumental – of making a connection between what we love doing and the needs of others. Such […]
The rugged and heavily glaciated Cascade Range stretches from northern California through Oregon, Washington and into southern British Columbia. The Cascades are the result of millions of years of collisions, uplift, and volcanic activity. Lassen Peak and Mt. St. Helens were the only volcanoes to erupt during the 20th century with major eruptions in 1915 […]
Jonathan Dean standing on the sacred rock For the past 4 years, as a PhD student at the University of Nottingham and now as a postdoc at the British Geological Survey, I have been undertaking field work in the Cappadocia region of central Turkey. This is a very important area to study, as it is […]
