Category Archives: 2017 Advent Calendar
Door 3 – Dive into plate tectonics!
Door 2 – The Translators
Our ‘geologists you didn’t know were geologists’ series has become a geoadvent regular. Here, Geoscientist editor Ted Nield recounts the tale of a young American couple, their contribution to the mining industry, and the reason they were forced to take early retirement from their geological careers…. Continue reading
Door 1 – 1.5 billion years of Plate Tectonic Stories
It hardly seems a minute since we were celebrating trilobites named after The Beatles, analysing the rock content of rock music with surprising accuracy, chasing William Smith around Wales and decorating our Christmas trees with dinosaurs – but the Great Geoadvent is back! Continue reading