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A simple guide to experimental petrology
Piston Cylinder Apparatus, RSES by Brendan If you read my bio, you will see that I list one of my areas of study as experimental petrology, and I’m sure plenty of people wonder what that even means, I...
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Tools of the Trade: Scanning Electron Microscopy
by Brendan A Jeol 6400 Scanning Electron Microscope, similar to the one I use at ANU. (Image: http://www.technicalsalessolutions.com/Instruments/SEM/jsm-6400f.htm) As geologists we love to look at our...
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An Active Volcano in Australia
by Brendan The other day I found some satellite images from NASA’s Earth Observatory that appear to show current volcanic activity at Mawson Peak on Heard Island, an Australian island in the...
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From the archives: Big numbers from tiny grains
By Kate Boston (originally posted 21st December 2011) One of the best things about my PhD project is all the cool machines I get to play with. Today I am running a Sensitive High Resolution Ion...
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From the archives: What do Chocolates and Diamonds have in common?
by Brendan (originally posted 25th May 2012) Pelletal Lapilli with a diamond core (Source: http://www.naturenplanet.com/articles/2489/20120516/chocolate-diamonds-why-volcanoes-girl-s-best.htm) Today I...
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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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Earthquakes and the formation of gold deposits
By Chops Last month, a piece of geoscience made it (albeit briefly) into the newspapers: namely, the idea that gold forms within earthquakes. This was widely reported, for example ABC Science picked it...
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Dynamics of the rotation of the inner core
By Chops Some research came out of RSES last week regarding the rotation of the inner core, and how it speeds up and slows down. This research, made by Hrvoje Tkalcic and others, has got a little bit...
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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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Seeing and listening to earthquakes
By Chops The magnitude 6.5-6.8 earthquake to hit New Zealand near Wellington around a week and a half ago brought earthquakes back into the news. Rather than exploring the way the earth rattles and...
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