Lydian is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University working with Douwe van Hinsbergen on the the Mesozoic (252-66 million years ago) plate tectonic evolution of the paleo-Pacific Ocean. You can read more about her research here.
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 […]
Professor Melanie Leng is the Director of the Centre of Environmental Geochemistry (a collaboration between the BGS and the University of Nottingham) and a Science Director at the British Geological Survey where she manages the Stable Isotope Facility. You can read more about her research here. The Travelling Geologist asked me to write a blog on the most spectacular fieldwork […]
A lot of people, including many non-geologists (even Beyoncé), are aware of the famous detrital Hadean zircons from the Jack Hills of Western Australia, which represent the oldest terrestrial minerals yet found (up to 4.37 Ga). The oldest crystalline basement rocks are arguably an equally important source of information regarding Earth’s earliest history. During my […]
Jani Radebaugh is a planetary scientist and an Associate Professor at Brigham Young University. Her research focuses primarily on three planetary satellites: Saturn’s moon Titan, Jupiter’s moon Io, and our own Moon. In conjunction with her extraterrestrial work, she uses terrestrial analogues to help us better understand other planetary processes. She visited western China in […]
