NASA had been under pressure to put a scientist on the Moon – and so in 1972, they sent geologist Harrison Schmitt.

With the recent unveiling of the statue to commemorate Mary Anning, it felt fitting that this fourth article in the palaeontology series touched upon some of the great marine reptiles that she was famed for discovering – the apex predators of the Jurassic seas!

Of all the equipment hauled around the field by geologists, the geological hammer must be the most essential and emblematic.

An introduction to safely looking for and preparing fossils.

Most Surtseyan style eruptions involve a relatively small amount of water encountering magma. But the explosion in January this year at the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcanic island erupted in a particularly spectacular fashion and the cause is still not yet fully understood.

It is a misconception that abandoning fossil fuels reduces the importance of the subsurface – whilst the use of it will materially change, it continues to play a crucial role in every aspect of human life.

Rather than convection currents within the mantle – could the forces at play be related to the Earth’s velocity?

Why do we need a regional stratigraphical framework for the North Sea?

Up to 60% of the world’s conventional petroleum is reservoired in carbonate rocks – but they are often regarded with apprehension by the industry.

The discovery of an exhumed oil field in the central Lusitanian Basin in Portugal has significantly enhanced the hydrocarbon potential of Lusitanian and Peniche Basins and the conjugate Carson-Bonnition Basin in Newfoundland.

A proposed new tectonic model for the northern Algerian Alpine Region based on studies of the Internal Zone rejects the previous model and suggests ideas for new hydrocarbon traps and prospects.

A Minute to Read: Following the devastating Gorkha earthquake that shook Nepal in 2015 there has been an intensification of earthquake research on and beneath Mounth Manaslu.

Latin America has the great geology to emulate the North American unconventional hydrocarbon saga, but other factors are determining a different path.

Basin classification based on tectonic settings provides a framework not only for understanding the genesis and evolution of petroleum basins and their sedimentary fill but also process-based analogs for the exploration of frontier basins.

Geomechanics is the study of how subsurface rocks deform or fail in response to changes of stress, pressure and temperature and it is becoming increasingly important in oil and gas exploration.