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 […]
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 […]
Dear blog, It’s been a while. I know. Stuff has happened. That virus, luckily it has only hit my travels, or caused the lack thereof. And something small, but very […]
When God had finished His creation of the Earth, He discovered that He had made a slight miscalculation. He had some sediments in spare. After considering a new moon just […]
Time goes by. In geology, lots of time goes by, and it is easy to loose perspective. If we cram the whole history of the Earth into one year, the […]
Tuscany is the area of gelato, geothermal energy and picturesque villages on hill tops. Nearly every hill top, no matter how steep, has a village, small or smaller, on the […]
The northernmost tip of Norway is a barren, brutal cliff, a naked rock plunging into the sea from an island aptly called Magerøya – the Meagre Island. The northernmost tip […]
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 […]
(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 […]