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Another geologist makes it into mass media (as a mutant alien murderer)
Excellent geology beard, as ever By Mike A miscommunication and a typically geological hangover led yesterday to me and my housemate, a Frenchman no less, going to see Prometheus. It seemed to be a...
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Fieldwork in Vanuatu (an idiot abroad)
By Mike A volcano pretending to be a sand dune. Clever disguise… A few months back my supervisor proposed that I go to Vanuatu to ‘have a look’. After literally seconds of hard, ponderous thinking I...
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Not so serious sunday 11: The importance of kittens in geology
By Mike Masters’ level powerpoint front slide. Spot the ranga kitten. We all have different opinions about what makes a good geologist. Some believe that a good geologist is able to identify rocks...
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Mohawks in jet propulsion; the new ‘kittens in geology’?
By Mike what would his mother say I still remember the Mars landing like it was the day before yesterday, watching those grainy thumbnails coming through like an early 90s photo, or like those odd...
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Mongolian mining: the real cost of gold
By Mike Moon rises over our exploration camp in the Gobi There are generally thought to be 2 big employment sectors for geologists who want to earn heaps of money very quickly, these being the oil...
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Memories from a 1st year undergrad fieldtrip… “we need more wood!!”
By Mike Last week I was sent down to the ANU’s coastal campus at Kioloa with a group of ‘willing’ first year students to help teach them something about geology. We looked at igneous, sedimentary and...
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NASA went to Mars and all I got was this lousy conglomerate
most. boring. rock. ever…UNTIL THEY FIND IT ON MARS!!! (not actual mars conglomerate) By Mike I’m not a sedimentologist. In fact, in the course of my PhD I’ve developed the sort of attitude which goes:...
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Smashing plates: the earth does it so maybe you should too
‘i believe in plate tectonics. that’s why i’m sitting in a glass’ (fanpop.com) By Mike Plate tectonics is now one of the universally accepted truths of the earth sciences. The originally controversial...
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The World is ending today, so we’re taking some time off…
By Claire Shortly the Earth will begin to disintegrate, or will explode from the inside out, or will get hammered by something from space, or will erupt and shake itself to pieces (not to mention the...
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From the archives: Seismologists can’t predict the future…but they can try!
By Mike (originally posted 22nd May 2012) I picked up a copy of the New Scientist a couple of days ago to shorten the bus ride to Sydney, and one particular article caught my eye, an interesting piece...
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Armageddon x 100000 – Bruce Willis = the LHB
by Mike The LHB, or the ‘Late Heavy Bombardment’ may be the earliest ‘late’ event you have ever heard of. It happened around 4 billion years before you were late for school, and made our planet a...
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Lasers. Not to be confused with blazers.
gonna need some oil on that Every professional has a workhorse: something that makes life easier and better and they couldn’t live without. For Jamie Oliver-it’s a flagon of olive oil. For Jesus:...
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