La Palma. The northwesternmost of the Canary Islands: an island with little tourism, but spectacular nature and geology, and it is the site of the archipelago’s most recent volcanic eruption, […]
It looks like some kind of giant, grey underground worm with teeth radiating in its mouth. A sand worm from Dune, which happened to dig its tunnel out of a […]
Four hundred and twenty-something million years ago, a river flowed through the landscape that would one day become Scotland. The river flowed across a plain, green but with only low […]
Greece is restless. Africa pushing northwards has created a tectonic mess of the northeastern Mediterranean. It is a long history of one continent piece of after another clashing into Europe, […]
Study geology, they said. Join the oil industry, they said. Travel to exotic and spectacular places, see open landscapes, they said. See the office landscape and spend most of your […]
Half a billion years ago, in the early Cambrian, some water, trapped in a sand bottom in a tropical sea, decided it wanted to get out. The water pushed its […]
After the Ediacaran and the small shellies; in the Cambrian, oxygen in the sea finally reached a level where gilled animals could breathe efficiently and grow big. This oxygen was […]
The first 20-million years of the Cambrian appears to be an empty void between the Ediacarans from the previous post and the well known Cambrians. But pull out the looking […]
For a long time, geologists logically set the dawn of the Cambrian at the first fossils, at the trilobites and their friends, which we met in the first post. But […]
Burgher: A privileged city citizen in medieval Europe. And now, for something completely different. (Monty Python) First, there was no life. There were layers of sediment rock; sandstone, shale, limestone, […]