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Category Archives: structures
Juno reveals Europa’s evolving surface
About a month ago, NASA’s Juno probe buzzed the Jovian moon Jupiter, and we got this cool picture, taken from a distance of about 400 km away. The grooves and ridges criss-crossing Europa’s icy shell are thought to record water from … Continue reading
Just published: can sandbox models be educational and fun?
Just out: a paper by me and education expert Bridget Mulvey grapples with the question: analogue sandbox models are cool, but are they effective teaching tools? Analogue sandbox models are a way of demonstrating tectonic deformation processes in the classroom: the … Continue reading
Why did North Carolina experience a magnitude 5.1 earthquake yesterday?
The location of this earthquake seems a little odd because North Carolina is about as far as it’s possible to get from an active plate boundary – thousands of km from the mid-Atlantic spreading ridge to the east and the … Continue reading
The geodetic fingerprints of shallow thrusting in Nepal
NASA’s Earth Observatory put out this great image last week, which shows the ground displacement in Nepal resulting from last month’s devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake, which has claimed at least 8,500 lives. The vertical displacements have been calculated by comparing … Continue reading
A real-life geological map, no colouring in required
There’s much more to geological mapping than colouring in, but a big part of the process of reconstructing the geological history of an area is spending a lot of time examining the exposed rocks to work out how to distinguish … Continue reading
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