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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Diffraction and Spectroscopy of Marine Calcite Biominerals: Insights into Structure and Geochemistry
Anthropogenic climate change is one of the biggest existential threats to the natural world and the place of humans within it. The key to understanding and shaping the future climate lies in exploring records of climate ... -
Understanding the theatre of terrestrialization: Silurian-Devonian sedimentary landscapes and continental ecosystems
The colonization of subaerial and non-marine landscapes (“terrestrialization”) by animals and plants was a defining and irreversible innovation during the co-evolution of Earth and its biosphere. Its timing, estimated ... -
Biogeochemical heterogeneity in the salt marsh pools of the north Norfolk coast
This thesis presents a study of pools found on the salt marshes of the north Norfolk coast, whose sediments have previously been observed to be extremely geochemically heterogeneous on small spatial scales. The work tests ...
