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 […]
This follows on from an earlier post, which documents the first half of a trip to China, myself and an undergraduate student from Royal Holloway made in 2012. In this part of the trip we were travelling from Lanzhou in the Gansu Province up the source of the Yellow River in Qinghai Province through Sichuan […]
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 […]
Anna Bird is a postdoctoral researcher at Royal Holloway University of London. Read more about her research here. Thanks to Anna for the great post. In 2012 Abigail Alderson and I headed off to China to collect samples as part of a NERC funded project titled “Dust storms and Chinese loess sources over the last […]
