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An Exposed Salt Dome

The salt exposed here consists of halites of the Ara Salt, which was deposited around 540 million years ago during the earliest Cambrian. The core of the dome, where the…

“All the Beautiful Domes”

Royal Dutch Shell owed its origins to Indonesia, formerly known as the Dutch East Indies. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Sulawesi, Java, and parts of Borneo (Kalimantan) and New…

Microfossils and the World of Chalk and Chert

Microfossils are those fossils that require a microscope to carry out fundamental identification. They are the fossils of a biologically diverse group of organisms, including microscopic algae, protists, and invertebrates,…

Spotted at..

What was the main reason for you to attend the NCS Strategy conference? With a shift of consciousness (and policies) towards new energy for the net zero targets, my main…

Tasmania – a Geotourism Hotspot

Tasmania’s geodiversity is remarkable, representing every past geological period and climatic event. A journey by coach or car will immerse a visitor in one of the most mountainous places in…

The Rio Grande Rift

After compression built the Southern Rocky Mountains, Neogene extension split the range along its axis, opening the 1,000-kilometre-long Rio Grande Rift. The rift has been active ever since, creating dramatic…

When the tramlines are missing

To assist geologists in orientating cores correctly in terms of what is up and what is down, the outside of the core is often marked with a red and yellow…