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....

This might seem obvious but one thing I have learned about geophysics over the years is that all of the different geophysical methods...

I have just taken a job. You might have heard of the company, Fleet Space Technologies. They're based in Adelaide, Australia, but they...

What a way to finish! I spent a lot of time this week looking at thin sections from a fascinating ore deposit (more to come about that...

Working out when a mineral deposit formed is a key part of building a conceptual model. These conceptual models are the backbone of an...

For the last couple of months I've been working with a fellow geo and a wonderful communicator, Holly Cooke. We've been dreaming of...

A geophysicist, a petrologist and a geochronologist walk onto a rock outcrop... It sounds like the setup for a geeky geoscience joke...

If you boil it all down, being a scientist means three things to me. You observe the natural world and use logic to develop ideas about...

"Whatever you like!" said Cait. Dr Cait Stuart, of the Northern Territory Geological Survey, had just asked me to give a talk to the...

Anyone who studies geology ends up looking down a microscope at some point in their degree. For some it's a moment of joy and wonder as...

Scrolling. Page by page. Skimming through handwritten or typed exploration reports. Urgh. The RSI in my right index finger flares up if I...

As the hunt for critical minerals continues to ramp up, exploration geologists need to be on the lookout for phosphate minerals like...