Behind door 19 of the geoadvent, a novel tool for communicating plate tectonic theory… Continue reading
Category Archives: Advent calendar
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
Door 14 – Xmas Sticks & Stones
Regular Geoscientist readers will be familiar with the ongoing adventures of Dalston and Gibbet, our resident cartoon geologists. Here they are with some favourites from the Christmas archives…. Continue reading
Door 13 – Memory Books
Today’s blog, by geologist and science writer Nina Morgan, takes a trip down memory lane… Continue reading
Door 12 – Can’t See the Wood for the Trees
Today’s geoadvent post features another unusual treasure from our map library… Continue reading
Door 11 – The Geological Society Christmas Quiz!
Before we kick off, a reminder of the Great Geoadvent Challenge… Yesterday’s window was The Caingorms, Scotland- leave a comment below identifying which plate tectonic story is featured in today’s window to take part! Continue reading
Door 10 – It looks like reindeer…
This post is an extract from an article by Marion Ferrat, which originally appeared on Four Degrees, part of the EGU blogs network. In our third look at links between geology and Christmas, Marion Ferrat looks at the ecological impact of reindeer… Continue reading
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