Bhutan: Elusive eclogites and their importance in Himalayan mountain-building Clare is a senior research fellow at the Open University, UK and holds a NERC Advanced Research Fellowship. Her research interests focus on the metamorphic and temporal evolution of plate collision zones: from subduction zone eclogites to melting during mountain-building episodes. She her research profile […]
For the past four years, first as a master’s student at the University of Leicester, and later as a PhD Student at Charles University in Prague. I have been studying the metamorphic basement of the Kabul Block in Afghanistan. With its position within the extended Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt, mountainous terrain and limited vegetation; Afghanistan provides […]
Looking for rocks in the jungle by Jon Pownall Jon recently finished his PhD with the SE Asia Research Group at Royal Holloway (supervised by Prof. Robert Hall) and has since started a post-doc at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. In September 2010 I travelled to the island of Ambon, eastern Indonesia, with […]
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to join a friend in a single prop plane to some key geologic localities that can be observed from the air better than they can be seen from the ground. While most of us use Google Earth for that, seeing an oblique view from 2-3 thousand […]
Steph is a Ph.D. student at Royal Holloway working with Matthew Thirlwall (see her research profile here and blog here). Shetland lies around 150km north of mainland Scotland and has spectacularly diverse geology for such a small archipelago. This is one of the main reasons I chose to undertake a masters, and now PhD trying to understand […]
