A voice – soft and scratchy, like the sound of a pencil on paper – started speaking in my head. It claimed to be a Carbon atom and started telling me about the amazing journeys it’s taken over billions of years. I started writing down what it was saying and I’ve added some of my… Continue reading Story of an atom: birth to earth
Types of geological blog posts
I write a geological blog. I read lots of them too. The old geological training has kicked in and I feel an urge to classify the various types of blog posts. Metageologist is about to get meta…. The current research post A staple of sci-blogging, the ‘current research post’ centres around a recent journal article.… Continue reading Types of geological blog posts
The edge of Cheshire. Part 2 – layers of landscape
This is part 2 of a series of posts seeking to describe everything of interest on a walk along the edge of Cheshire, in England’s Peak District. Part 1 ended as I left Sutton Common, my mood lifting as the ground dropped. Descending the hill I passed a small house with a pigeon coop in the garden.… Continue reading The edge of Cheshire. Part 2 – layers of landscape
The edge of Cheshire. Part 1 – traces of apocalypse
Someone once said: “if you know enough Science, nothing is boring”. I love this idea, but I’m also intrigued by the geographical equivalent: no place is boring, if you know enough about it. Recently I went for a walk to try and find out if this is true. The walk started from my childhood home in… Continue reading The edge of Cheshire. Part 1 – traces of apocalypse