Flo Bullough continues her Patagonia reporting with a dispatch from the incredible Torres del Paine National Park! Continue reading
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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
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 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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