Hypocentre

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

Accretionary Wedge #21 : Reaching out to someone

Jess at Magma Cum Laude is hosting this month’s Accretionary Wedge, asking “What kind of Earth Science outreach have you participated in?”

Actually, there is quite a lot of outreach that I do but one thing that I’ve actually referred to in some of my recent posts but realise that I’ve not explained, is the [...]

Accretionary Wedge #20: Yet to discover

David Bressan at Cryology and Co is hosting Accretionary Wedge #20 and I’m late with this and don’t really have much time what with the start of teaching next week – sorry.

He asks …

What remains to be discovered for future earth scientists what we (still) don’t know about earth? What are the geological riddles that [...]

Accretionary Wedge #19: Yes, we have a banana

It’s accretionary wedge time again an this month Dino Jim is asking us to ‘think outside the box’ when teaching geology. I seem to detect a food theme developing.

Here is a quick piece on using a banana as an analogue for rock deformation in general, and fault propagation folding in particular.

First take your banana [...]