Geology forensics: That’s my fault, Sherlock!
Geologists love to play detectives. Often, we find rocks that just do not look right, that should’t be just that way, even may seem self contradicting. Enter our inner Sherlocks, […]
Geologists love to play detectives. Often, we find rocks that just do not look right, that should’t be just that way, even may seem self contradicting. Enter our inner Sherlocks, […]
Usually, petroleum geologists think of source rock and reservoir as different things: The source is the tight, shitty shale that has to be be boiled to expulse oil. The reservoir […]
Our journey to the far east of Europe soon comes to an end. But first, a look at something completely different, in age and type of rock. Let’s leave the […]
A few days ago, I took you to Perm to look at the Permian, and a crash-course in the mysterious ways of carbonate rock porosity. Today, we home into the […]
Some places have a special place in the hearts of geologists. Iceland with its volcanoes. The Dorset coast because it is the cradle of modern geology. The Oslo Graben because […]
Iceland. The land of Ice and Fire. Today, more fire than usual, and we geo nerds hope for a long-lasting repetition of the Krafla fires, which played their theatre in […]
OK, folks, here is another post of Early Paleozoic sediments from Hovedøya, near Oslo. Because that’s the closest to my home I find pretty sedimentary rocks. This time, the I […]
All my faults are normal, but I can reverse them…is an old joke among us structural geology nerds. But there is no reason to reverse this prettier-than-normal fault, which actually […]
7 AM. Outside the tent, it’s still dark. Only the rays of headlight torches penetrate the morning mist. Stiff bodies crawl out from light, hence too small, tents. With one […]
On the way to Malta, we flew over Mount Etna. In accordance with Murphy’s Law, the Volcano that had been humming along nearly continuously the last year, was quiet. But […]