Geology

Doggerland

Dec 6, 2023

"When you could walk from London to Paris to get a Croissant for breakfast..." (Jeff Goodell) Land bridge between the mainland and Britain - Doggerland and Dogger Bank. Comparison of the geographical situation in 2000 to the late years of the Vistula-Würm Glaciation....

The afterlife of cities

Jul 28, 2022

When cities are deserted, their existences can be traced back by the types of earths in the ground for centuries. Geologists call the type of earth created by human settlement dark earth. Dark earth is rich in charcoal and botanic fibres, the left overs of human...