The rugged and heavily glaciated Cascade Range stretches from northern California through Oregon, Washington and into southern British Columbia. The Cascades are the result of millions of years of collisions, uplift, and volcanic activity. Lassen Peak and Mt. St. Helens were the only volcanoes to erupt during the 20th century with major eruptions in 1915 […]
Jonathan Dean standing on the sacred rock For the past 4 years, as a PhD student at the University of Nottingham and now as a postdoc at the British Geological Survey, I have been undertaking field work in the Cappadocia region of central Turkey. This is a very important area to study, as it is […]
Pico de Orizaba or Citlaltepetl, at 18,490 ft. above sea level, is the highest mountain in Mexico and the third highest mountain in North America. It is a dormant stratovolcano within the Trans-Mexican volcanic belt that extends across much of central Mexico. The modern day volcanic edifice of Pico de Orizaba was built within and […]
Yarlung river, flowing at the geological boundary between Pre-Eocene Asia and India Douwe in Venice By Douwe van Hinsbergen In the summer of 2013, an international team of Earth Scientists undertook a field trip to the Indus-Yarlung suture zone, which demarcates the fault zone where since early Cretaceous time the Neotethyan Ocean subducted into the […]
Great Salt Lake, Jordan River, and mapping in my backyard
