Jonathan Dean is an Isotope Geochemist at the British Geological Survey. Here he discusses his latest trip to Turkey. See his other post about palaeolimnology in Cappadocia here. In early April 2014, I lectured on a field trip in Cappadocia, Turkey, where I taught students from Birmingham, Ankara and Isparta Universities about how we can […]
In addition to the famous angular unconformity seen near Lochranza on the Isle of Arran, Hutton also made an important discovery concerning the emplacement of plutonic systems. The Isle of Arran is cored by a large circular granitic pluton. This Tertiary-age pluton is rimmed by the steeply dipping Dalradian Supergroup and the Old Red Sandstone. […]
The Isle of Arran is often described as Scotland in miniature. It has it all: sheep, highland cattle, smoked fish, haggis, whiskey, cheese, and rocks. As for the rocks, Arran offers some of the best of Scottish geology contained on a 160 square mile island off the coast of the Firth of Clyde. Clockwise […]
Richard Bates is a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. See his website here. Operation Iceberg – Mapping the Changing face of Arctic Ice Over the past 5 years I have found my summers occupied by research expeditions to the Arctic. The projects began in 2009 with a request from colleagues […]
Ron Harris is a Professor of Geological Sciences at Brigham Young University and is the Founder and Chief of Research and Development for the nonprofit organization, In Harms Way. It was one of those rare, shining moments of feeling instrumental – of making a connection between what we love doing and the needs of others. Such […]
