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Dr Ian G. Stimpson. Seismologist, geophysicist and structural geologist at Keele University, U.K.
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The Out Campaign

Fieldwork and the Great British Summer

It’s raining again. This is this morning’s rain radar image from raintoday.co.uk

The Great British Summer – www.raintoday.co.uk

You are not going to get the Great British public believing in global warming until we start getting those Mediterranean summers that we were promised.

This week I went into the field and got absolutely soaked, despite having some expensive [...]

July 26th, 2009 | Category: Staffordshire, fieldwork, global warming | Comments are closed

Grinshill

What do Warwick Castle, Liverpool Cathedral and the doorway to 10 Downing Street have in common?

They are all made of sandstone from Grinshill in Shropshire.

This summer I am having a break from compiling geotrails but have ended up working on building stones. How a geophysicsist ends up working on building stones is a long [...]

July 18th, 2009 | Category: Staffordshire, geology | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

New Zealand Earthquake 15 July 2009 M 7.6 Recorded at Keele, UK

Here is the Keele University, UK recording of the earthquake off west coast of South Island, New Zealand, this morning (July 15). The UK is pretty much antipodal to New Zealand, getting on for ~170° epicentral distance.

Keele University’s seismometer is part of the UK’S Seismometers for [...]

July 15th, 2009 | Category: Earthquakes | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Mis:tique II : Fault Propagation Fold, Broadhaven

Gigapan and Photosynth compilations of images of a spectacular fault propagation fold in Pembrokeshire. [...]

July 1st, 2009 | Category: blogging on blogging, fieldwork, gadgets, geology, mis:tique | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)