Academic Claims Geology Is Racist and ‘Linked to White Supremacy’
A professor specializing in “nonhuman geography” at a British university has claimed that geology has been unfairly influenced by colonization and declared the subject of geology racist. Kathryn Yusoff, who teaches at London's prestigious Queen Mary University, accused geology of being a discipline “torn apart by systemic racism”. The study of prehistoric life through fossils […]
Irish-Scottish rock formation may be rare record of ‘snowball Earth’ period | Geology
Rock formations across Ireland and Scotland could be a valuable record of Snowball Earth, a key moment in Earth’s history when the planet was covered in ice. The study found that the Port Askyg Formation, a layer of rock up to 1.1 kilometres thick, likely formed during the Sturtian Ice Age between 662 and 720 […]