geology

Professor Marian Holness leads a research group in the Department of Earth Sciences, and studies the processes which occur during the melting and...

Dr Helen Williams is a Reader in Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences and a Fellow of Jesus College. Here, she tells us about using rocks as...

Iconic object exhibited for the first time, alongside works by Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University Library.

Aerial photographs of Britain from the 1940s to 2009 – dubbed the ‘historical Google Earth’ – have been made freely available online.

An international collaboration between universities and industry will further develop carbon capture and storage technology – one of the best hopes...

A team of volcanologists and engineers from the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol has collected measurements from directly within volcanic clouds...

In 2014, Cambridge researchers monitored a series of seismic shocks which preceded Iceland’s biggest volcanic eruption in 200 years. The dramatic...

Researchers have compiled the first global set of observations of flow within the Earth’s mantle – the layer between the crust and the core – and...