MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER
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Geobrowser is a blog-like perspective on interesting and unusual developments in geoscience, often local but also extending to the dawn of the universe and the beginnings of life. Published annually in Mercian Geologist since 2000, each Geobrowser includes up to 5 short articles aimed at informing and educating a general readership on topical issues in geoscience, compiled and written by the Mercian Geologist editorial team.

MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER 2024

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​Limitless energy from Iceland​

World's largest geode

Finding Theia

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MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER 2023

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​Charnwood Forest makes national news​

Geological analogues help the search for alien life

​Greenland asteroid age — and a Scottish connection?

MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER 2022

​Explosive happenings in Siberia

Multicoloured hydrogen power for UK?

Disturbingly recent cosmic disasters

World’s largest creepy-crawly in Northumberland​
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MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER 2021

​High-tech element from Cornwall

Winchcombe meteorite—carbon special

Could ‘life’ have arrived on meteorites? 

… or was life created here on Earth?
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MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER 2020

Arranging the stuff of everything - the Periodic Table​

Deep-sea mining challenges

North York Moors National Park- new mineral bonanza?

Vesuvius VIP victim identified?
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MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER 2019

​Update on the Greenland meteorite

A geological ‘Lost City of Atlantis’

More on...Fracking and earthquakes



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MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER 2018

​Cosmic trigger for our youngest glaciation?

Problems of fracking-induced earthquakes 

It’s a Square World



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MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER 2017

William Buckland: geological genius or ‘buffoon’?

Ancient Egyptians ‘mined’ meteorites

​Fracking and earthquakes




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MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER 2016

Is global warming a long-term option?

Record Atlantic tsunami recorded

Coal: a new mineral resource?

Fracking does not contaminate aquifers

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MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER 2015

Ghostly happenings at Death Valley

Did a volcano help decide European history?

The Storegga tsunami: a prehistoric tragedy

Ediacarans alive: a new coelacanth moment?



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MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER 2014

Geology at Flanders and Normandy

Earthquakes illuminated

Comets and Pharaohs



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MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER 2013

They’re getting younger all the time...

Another predatory dinosaur

Evolution, creationism and flying spaghetti

Trouble in Paradise?

...and there was light

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MERCIAN GEOLOGIST GEOBROWSER 2012

Energy from the Vale of Belvoir

New prospects?

Fracking, earthquakes and toxic leakages

Precambrian bioturbation at Charnwood?


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