The 2017 Great Geoadvent comes to an end! Continue reading
Category Archives: 2017 Advent Calendar
Door 23 – On this day: the 1896 ascent of Aconcagua
Behind today’s geoadvent window, Education Assistant Will Foreman recounts the ascent of Aconcagua, which began on 23 December 1896. Continue reading
Door 22 – Sticking with turkey
Sticking with turkey – the life and death of the dodo Continue reading
Door 21 – Let it snow!
Behind door 21 of the geoadvent, the Geological Society’s Publishing House has some suggestions for some festive reading… Continue reading
Door 20 – Landscapes Below
Behind door 20 of the geoadvent, GSL Education Assistant Will Foreman reviews the University of Cambridge Library’s ‘Landscapes Below’ exhibition, on display until 29 March 2018. Continue reading
Door 19 – The Complete Drift Globe
Behind door 19 of the geoadvent, a novel tool for communicating plate tectonic theory… Continue reading
Door 18 – Beneath the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree: A simple overview of London’s geology
In today’s geoadvent post, GSL Education Officer Amy Ball explores the geology beneath the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree… Continue reading
Door 17 – Going Underground
Behind today’s geoadvent window, Geological Society Conference Manager Georgina Worrall looks at the latest TV programme to join a long list of fictional representations of the underground… Continue reading
Door 16 – …Cromerty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher…
The final instalment in our series highlighting some of the more unusual maps in our collection… Continue reading
Door 15 – Dispatch from Patagonia: The amazing Torres del Paine National Park
Flo Bullough continues her Patagonia reporting with a dispatch from the incredible Torres del Paine National Park! Continue reading
