Alan Collins is a Professor of Geology at The University of Adelaide and is fascinated by the world and by what the rocks of the world can tell us about how the world works and what it looked like in the past. He has worked with a great set of PhD students and colleagues all […]
Ethiopia
Gondwanan ancestry of the banks of the Blue Nile, Ethiopia with Morgan Blades
Morgan Blades is just finishing her PhD at The University of Adelaide on the Tectonic Evolution of the Western Shield, Ethiopia. She has also worked on the Neoproterozoic evolution of Oman and the Sahara Metacraton. She is a rock enthusiast having wanted to be a geologist since she was very little. Ethiopia is unique – […]
The Afar Rift, Ethiopia with Chris Lambert
Chris Lambert is a field geologist for the Council for Geosciences. He has worked in several countries throughout Africa. You can read more about Chris’ research here. As a field geologist for the Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa) I have been privileged, I guess as many geologists tend to be, at least […]
An Ethiopian Road Trip with Laura Fielding
Laura Fielding is a PhD student at Lancaster University documenting the palaeodrainage history of the Nile River. You can read more about her research here. In January 2011 I set off on what was to be the first of four field trips as part of my PhD studying the provenance of the Nile delta cone sediments. Modern […]