Category Archives: geology

Scientists discover ‘Kryptonite’

The press office of the Natural History Museum must have been beside themselves with this one: asked to analyse an unusual mineral from a mine in Serbia, one of their scientists types the composition he’s determined into Google and discovers, … Continue reading

Categories: geology, rocks & minerals

The Chronologer’s Quest

The story of how we finally calculated the Earth’s birthday (review)
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Categories: deep time, geology

Geological Basics: the difference between chronology and stratigraphy

Or why there is no such thing as a single ‘geological column’ for the whole Earth
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Categories: basics, geology

Field photos (sadly, not mine)

I’m being nagged, because I promised fieldwork photos and have yet to deliver. The truth is that my beloved Olympus camera is currently in for repair having rather selfishly decided to malfunction in the midst of all the moving frenzy. … Continue reading

Categories: geology

Want to know about Monazite? Then phone a friend

At the beginning of the week, I came across this story, about the new ‘Ultrachron’ machine (developed by Michael Williams and Michael Jercinovic at the University of Massachusetts), which seems to offer some exciting possibilities for extracting the detailed tectonic … Continue reading

Categories: geology, links, rocks & minerals