Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Curiosity continues to rock on Mars

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

This was originally posted at:  http://blogs.egu.eu/palaeoblog/?p=529 NASA might be having a rain-check on its outreach activities, but that’s not why Curiosity has gone silent the last few days. Every once in a while an event known as the Mars Solar … Continue reading →

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High five-asaurus

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

A big high five to us and @KEGS_Geography for being our 5,000th twitter follower. To join in, hop along to @geolsoc and say hello. Or, if you’re really keen, why not have a go at writing us a blog post? … Continue reading →

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Arockalypse now (Ho ho)

Posted on December 21, 2012 by

Has the world ended yet? If you’re reading this, probably not. We’re pretty confident it won’t in the next few hours, but just in case, we’re making an end of the world/geological play list to see us through. Assuming we make it, wishing all … Continue reading →

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Top 5 less-volcanic lairs for Evil Geologists

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

Skyfall – the best Bond film ever? We’re not sure, but one thing is certain. You don’t get to be a creditable Bond villain without a proper lair in which to lurk. One year on from our first suggestions, here … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday to us!

Posted on September 9, 2012 by

Today marks our blog’s one year anniversary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed, commented, shared or visited! As ever, on a momentous occasion such as this, YouTube has not let us down.

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Balancing act

Posted on May 30, 2012 by

Sarah Day visits the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival and meets local artist Adrian Gray, whose amazing stone balancing sculptures have audiences on the beach enthralled. Originally published in Geoscientist Online, 30 May 2012 ‘Balance is intuitive. You have to stop … Continue reading →

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Hockney on the Rocks

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

Across the courtyard from The Geological Society, the Royal Academy’s latest exhibition David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture is attracting bigger crowds: the queue that snakes in steward-managed concertinas around the statue of Joshua Reynolds seems to be unabated by … Continue reading →

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Top five youtube geology clips – and other ways to spend the Christmas holiday…

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

As well as eating and drinking, Christmas is traditionally a time for doing very little. In celebration of this, we’ve compiled a few geological ways to pass the time during the holiday.

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All in a whorl

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

We knew we were in for it when we chose a picture library image of an unidentified ammonite for the cover of the November issue of Geoscientist.  So far reactions have been of two kinds – compliments on the graphic … Continue reading →

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Christmas gift idea!

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

Back in 2009, the cover of Geoscientist carried an image scanned from a fragment of Paesina Stone from Tuscany – a silty limestone formed during the Cretaceous Period and marked with a fine network of cracks through which groundwater has … Continue reading →

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