Upcoming post series: Alex's Dinnertime Geology

[kaberett]

This is something I've been meaning to do for a few weeks, and I think I will shortly have brain for it. It arises because I often joke that, actually, as a geologist it's remarkably easy to get away with talking about work at parties - because while what I actually do is quite dull, every igneous geologist has their Top Five Volcanoes, and what's not to like about that. So! The idea is a series of posts on Cool Geological Shite, in (approximately) lay terms.

Stuff already on the list:

• how we know how many days there were in a year three billion years ago
  
• top five volcanoes
  
• ENORMOUS MILLIPEDES (with gammy legs)
  
• how we could tell meteorites were from Mars before we'd ever been to Mars
  
• trilobites with eyes on stalks
  
• unravelling continental motion over geological history
  
• magnetic stripes IN THE OCEAN
  
• plate tectonics
  
• core polarity reversals

... and so on, and so forth. Is there anything you'd like me to add? I am very willing to take requests for this series!