The priest’s half a billion year old bathtub: A sand volcano in Skåne, Sweden
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 […]
Category Archives: Geology photography
Volcano Noir: More Art by El Teide
Our favorite volcano of the month paints not only grand landscapes, but also petite, nonfigurative studies. These beautiful bands of dark and light ash are found in a road cut […]
El Teide, the great impressionist
If volcanoes were artists, they would be impressionists. Volcanoes are dramatic. They rise elegant cones towards the sky, painting the sky red during eruptions. Bright orange rivers of floating lava […]
El Teide: The third tallest mountain in the world – and home to the devil!
The air is cold and thin. I feel it. Walking fast on the path between lava boulders, I need to take a break. A minute to recharge oxygen, another look […]
How to make oil in a few easy steps
(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 […]
Ladram Bay: A Pandora in England
I stand on the edge of the cliff. Below me, the sea, and the eternal sound of breaking waves and screaming seagulls, riding the air, mocking my fear of stepping […]
The Knight’s Leap across the Hipster Troll’s pots
Once upon a time, the brave knight Sigvat, advisor to the King, got letter from a beautiful maiden who was forced into engagement with another knight, Eldjarn. Eldjarn means «fire-iron», […]
Malta article now in GEO ExPro!
Malta – a country shape by limestone (and some very old poo) features in Geotourism in the recent issue of GEO ExPro, a magazine for the petroleum exploration community – […]
Gran Canaria: The Miniature Continent
You know the tourist drill: Charter flight. Cerveza. Hotel, all-inclusive. If on budget in Playa del Ingles, which looks like a high-rise-block working class suburb that someone dropped from the […]
The rainbow at the end of the ash: Barranco del Medio, Gran Canaria
– Sorry, honey, we will be here for a while. Enjoy your book while I shoot the rainbow! I grabbed the camera and jumped out of the car. In front […]