‘We’ve built our entire world around water. Our temperature scale, our bodies. Water shapes our continents, flows through our oceans and rivers, creates atmosphere and weather – this one substance does all of that. And we’ve got to a point where we’re so used to it, we ignore it.’ Alok Jha has written about a … Continue reading
‘What would a palaeontologist of the far future do if he, she (or indeed, it) came upon technofossils, the petrified artefacts of a long-extinct civilization?’ Continue reading
Despite Sheldon Cooper’s references to geologists as ‘the dirt people’*, geologists are not usually associated in the public mind with soil. Most of the planet’s soil is no older than the Pleistocene (2.58 million – 11,700 years ago) – surely geologists are concerned with much older, much rockier stuff than this? Continue reading
Nearly three years ago, two researchers uncovered a series of footprints on a beach in Happisburgh, Norfolk. Preserved for at least 800,000 years beneath layers of sediment, the footprints had been exposed by recent storms. There was just enough time to record 3D images of them before they were swallowed up by the tide. Continue reading
Following our inaugural themed Year of Mud, the Society has declared 2016 to be the Year of Water! Throughout 2016, we’ll be exploring the different and varied ways in which geology and water interact, and the importance of these links to people and the environment. Continue reading
Former President, author and palaeontologist Richard Fortey’s new BBC 4 documentary is kicking off tonight! ‘Nature’s Wonderlands: Islands of Evolution’ investigates why islands are natural laboratories of evolution and meets some of the remarkable and unique species that live on them. Episode one, which travels to Hawaii to investigate how life colonises a newly born … Continue reading
Happy new year, blog readers! While the rest of us are working on making, breaking and conveniently overlooking newly made resolutions, some in the geological community are focusing on a more fundamental resolution. It’s a subject which has been under discussion for several years, and the topic of countless meetings, articles and debates. Now, the … Continue reading
Throughout the advent season, we’ve been counting down with images submitted to our 100 Great Geosites photo competition. Today’s photographs are all of a geosite whose name is an Anglicisation the Gaelic Creag a’ Chnocain – meaning ‘crag of the small hill’. Continue reading
Behind door nineteen, the most remote of our #100geosites, which attracted some beautiful photo competition entries! Continue reading
Today’s #geoadvent site is not only an important economic geological site, but was the location for a training day for our Publishing House staff! Continue reading
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