An ever-growing range of extraordinary fossils is shedding new light on the history of life: colour patterns in dinosaur feathers and insect wings; DNA from an ecosystem two million years old; the love song of a Jurassic cricket, to name but a few. Medical imaging techniques and particle accelerators make it possible to see inside […]

An aquifer is a saturated, porous, permeable stratum or group of strata. Hydrogeological maps give a different view to standard geological maps, classifying the strata according to their importance as aquifers and dominant type of flow, through interconnected pore spaces or fractures. But geology, depositional environment, diagenesis and structure control aquifer properties and how the […]

(PTEE) The Permian-Triassic Extinction Event (PTEE) (c. 252 Mya) was the most severe extinction event that the Earth has experienced, with over 80% of the marine species and 70% of terrestrial species becoming extinct. The extinction event was the result of catastrophic climate change that occurred during a period of Permian warming and resulting in […]