Monthly Archives: July 2023

Has Earth’s mantle always worked like it does today?

Posted on July 28, 2023 by Chris Rowan

This seems to be the latest round in the eternal battle between the geophysics data which strongly suggests whole mantle convection (and for quite some time, if ideas about the origin of all the weird junk at the core-mantle boundary … Continue reading →

Categories: deep time, geochemistry, geology, geophysics, past worlds

How the UK’s tectonic past is key to its seismic present

Posted on July 8, 2023 by Chris Rowan

Today I learnt something very interesting that I didn’t know before – that intraplate earthquakes in the UK mostly occur in western England and Scotland, not Ireland, eastern Scotland or southeast England (where I grew up). The cause of this … Continue reading →

Categories: deep time, earthquakes, geohazards, tectonics