In today’s geoadvent blog post, GSL Policy Officer Flo Bullough reports from a glacier! Continue reading
Category Archives: Advent calendar
Door 8 – Canadian Treasure
Door 7 – Wrapping up for Christmas!
This post by Florence Bullough originally appeared on Four Degrees, part of the EGU blogs network. In our second look at links between geology and Christmas, Flo Bullough investigates the geological origins of wrapping paper… Continue reading
Door 6 – Earth’s nearest neighbour
Door 5 – the journey to Bethlehem
Door 4 – Cholera for Christmas
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
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