Department of Earth Sciences
About this community
Research across the whole spectrum of the Earth Sciences, including the areas of Geophysics, Geochemistry, Mineral Sciences, Petrology, Palaeontology, Vulcanism, Marine Sciences, and Palaeoceanography
Earth Sciences is the most multidisciplinary of the Natural Sciences. Our understanding of the Earth and other planets is based on research across the whole spectrum of the Earth Sciences and includes the areas of Geophysics, Geochemistry, Mineral Sciences, Petrology, Palaeontology, Vulcanism, Marine Sciences, Palaeoceanography. We focus on particular aspects of the earth; its internal structure and evolution, the behaviour and properties of minerals as natural materials, oil, gas and other natural resources, Earth history as recorded in rocks and fossils, the origin of life and global climate change. We draw on the expertise of the neighbouring sciences, mathematics, chemistry, physics, material sciences, geography and the biological sciences.
Sub-communities within this community
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Mineral Science
Research focusing on elucidating the properties and behaviour of minerals and fluids at a fundamental level
Collections in this community
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Climate Change and Earth-Ocean Atmosphere Systems
Using chemical, isotopic and sedimentary proxies of critical parameters to explore the causes and consequences of rapid climate changes in the last glacial cycle -
Geodynamics, Geophysics and Tectonics
Investigation of a very broad spectrum of structural, tectonic and geodynamical processes using quantitative physical models based on land-, marine- and space-based observations -
Palaeobiology
Straddles Earth Sciences and Biology; aims to investigate whether evolution is open-ended and indeterminate, or highly constrained by physico-chemical factors -
Petrology: Igneous, Metamorphic and Volcanic Studies
Research of igneous, metamorphic and volcanic processes to enhance understanding of global tectonics as well as their more immediate impacts on our surficial environment
Recent Submissions
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Velocity and anisotropy structure of the Icelandic crust - An ambient seismic noise analysis
Measuring the travel times of seismic waves is one of the most important tools for uncovering Earth’s structure and dynamics. In recent years, the discovery that surface wave dispersion could be estimated from ambient noise ... -
Tracing past and present Arctic geochemical cycling and its link to climate change using neodymium isotopes
The Arctic is one of the most important locations for past and present global environmental change, containing arguably the largest concentration of critical components in the Earth’s climate system. In the past, the Arctic ... -
Degassing Behaviour of Basaltic Open Vent Volcanoes
(2021-06-30)This thesis investigates two problems in the field of volcanology by using a combination of remote sensing of volcanic gases, magma modelling and fluid dynamics. The first problem relates to gas-flow through particle-liquid ...
