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Category Archives: Cretaceous

How to make oil in a few easy steps

4. January 2016by karsten Leave a comment

(When you have read this blog post, you will appreciate how lucky we are to have oil!) During the last posts, I have taken you on a tour along the […]

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Crash'n'bang geology, Cretaceous, Devon, Dorset, England, Geology and society, Geology photography, Jurassic, Mesozoic, Oil and Gas, Sand, shale and gravel, Triassic

The Seven Sisters: How Cretaceous beauties made Norway rich

11. November 2015by karsten 1 Comment

The white cliffs of Dover are English icons, just like cream tea and football, before oligarchs bought the teams. But how many know about their twin sisters in Sussex? Some […]

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Cretaceous, England, Geology and society, Norway, Oil and Gas, Sand, shale and gravel, Sussex

Light Beer: the Cretaceous’s so bright I gotta wear shades!

30. October 2015by karsten 2 Comments

On our tour along the channel coast, we have been to the Triassic and Jurassic, and now for the third part of the trifle: the Cretaceous. We leave the grey […]

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Cretaceous, Devon, England, Sand, shale and gravel, Travel Tips

How to see 170 million years in two kilometres

1. February 2015by karsten 3 Comments

I am a petroleum geologist for my day time job. Petroleum geologists study sedimentary rocks, because they are the ones that contain oil (sand and limestones) or are the source […]

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Crash'n'bang geology, Cretaceous, Geology photography, Jurassic, Mesozoic, Norway, Oil and Gas, Palaeozoic, Permian, Sand, shale and gravel, Svalbard/Spitsbergen, Triassic

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