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Scanning Ediacaran fossils in Newfoundland

In September, I spent three weeks in Newfoundland, Canada working on world class Ediacaran fossil surfaces with Emily Mitchell, Charlotte Kenchington and Lucy Roberts. After eight hours of travelling, our bright red truck full of precision equipment, people and food arrived in the town of Portugal Cove South. We settled into ‘The Green House’, where we would be staying, and promptly collapsed in bed.

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A day in the field: geological mapping of Northern Baffin Island

The Archean Eon (4–2.5 billion years ago) is one of the last great frontiers in our knowledge of the Earth. Plate tectonics is considered to have initiated during this time period, and large volumes of the continental crust formed, but fundamental questions remain regarding the timing, mechanisms and drivers of these transitions.

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NERC DTP fieldtrip to Newfoundland and Labrador: the industry perspective

Having a career as a geologist in the oil industry, I get my excitement from working on data from all over the world. However, there is only one thing better than this, which is to actually see the data in its original setting as rocks in the field. Hence when the Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences invited me along to the Earth System Science Doctoral Training Partnership (ESS DTP) field trip, I naturally jumped at the chance.

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