Putting the pieces together

Rocks in my head Geology is a profession that is full of foreign concepts for most people. It’s an esoteric artform practiced by people...

Tectonic influences on climate Our world was not always the way we experience it. Climates of the past have been vastly different. In the...

January 2025 earthquake in southern Tibet On the 7 January 2025 the people of southern Tibet were hit by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Over...

If you sail east through Drake's Passage at the southern end of South America, you enter the Scotia Sea. If you continue eastwards a few...

During the height of the Covid pandemic in July 2020, NASA launched the Perseverance Rover. I watched this launch. I watched the entire...

Impressive! I love conferences. They are fantastic for catching up with colleagues and making new connections. You really can’t beat the...

In mineral exploration, you’ll often hear the refrain “structure is king”. Most orebodies have a structural control, either in terms of...

Porphyry copper-gold deposits and their broader mineral systems are a fascinating expression of the tectonic processes that shape the...

Most people, according to geologist and science commutator Professor Iain Stewart, have very little idea of what lies beneath their feet....