Detail of a photo: Glowing orange lava flow running down a dark slope at twilight, with smoke and pink-lit clouds rising past a dark cone-shaped hill behind it.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Thrust fault

Science snap (7): Thrusting under our noses

As Earth Science researchers, we are extremely fortunate that fieldwork often necessitates trips to exotic and far-flung places. But sometimes we are guilty of ignoring the riches right on our doorstep. In Bristol (UK), perhaps our greatest geological asset is the Avon Gorge. At the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, torrents of icy meltwater …[Read More]