Yajun Xu is a geologist and an associate professor at China University of Geosciences in Wuhan. His current research focuses mainly on the location of the South China Craton in Gondwana Supercontinent and Early Paleozoic Orogenesis in South China.
When God had finished creating the Earth, He had some sand and gravel in excess. To get rid of it, the story goes, He dumped it in the southern North Sea, and that became Denmark. On closer inspection, this gravel heap reflects a varied range of deposition environments from the Lower Cretaceous through the Pliocene. […]
Originally from the UK, Lisa is an exploration geologist working in northern Western Australia. You can read more about her adventures here. The Pilbara region of north-western Australia, approximately 1,100 km north of Perth, is one of the world’s major iron ore provinces. Over 500 Mt (millons of tons) are exported annually from Western Australia’s […]
Owen completed a PhD from Oxford in July 2014, he is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Nagoya University, Japan as part of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and will be starting as a visiting fellow at the Geologic Survey of Canada in January 2015.
The Ross orogen: An ancient continental arc exposed in the Transantarctic Mountains Graham Hagen-Peter University of California, Santa Barbara An introduction to the Transantarctic Mountains and the Ross orogen The Transantarctic Mountains form the boundary between the Archean and Proterozoic East Antarctic Craton and younger accreted terranes of West Antarctica (Fig. 1). This mountain belt […]
