In March 2019, we completed our first ever geological tour of Namibia. The tour was led by German/Namibian geologist Nicole Grünert, and co-led by GeoWorld Travel’s Director, James Cresswell. The 15-day tour was a great success and visited the geological highlights in the north of the country.
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Canary Islands
We have just returned from an exciting trip to the Canary Islands where we were checking out the geology in … More
Recce to SW England
This weekend I had an enjoyable yet wet and windy time recceing some sites for April 6-13 ‘Fossils, mines and … More
Day 3: Morocco’s Trilobite Kingdom, 31 Oct to 10 Nov 2016
This morning’s site is near to the town of Alnif and is in Cambrian sedimentary rocks. Here it is possible … More
Day 2: Morocco’s Trilobite Kingdom 31 Oct – 10 Nov, 2016
http://www.geoworldtravel.com/morocco.php Our first stop this morning is an amazing pre-cambrain stromatolite site near to Ouarzazate. Next we head to the Draa … More
Adventures and Geology in the Pitcairn Islands
The next group of islands we reached on our GeoWorld Travel voyage west across the Pacific was the Pitcairn Group. … More
Statues and Volcanoes on Easter Island
Our voyage to the volcanoes of Pitcairn and French Polynesia started in Easter Island. This mythical island is an anthropological … More
NordVest Fjord and Ofjord on my latest trip to Greenland
The Geology of this part of Scoresby Sund is dominated by 1 billion year old metamorphic rocks.
Northern Lights in Scoresby Sund
We are just back in Iceland after another trip to East Greenland. Here are some pictures of the Northern Lights … More
Bye bye Greenland
On Sunday night we steamed out of Scoresbysund bound for Akureyri, Iceland. Today I arrived in Akureyri and we set … More
Ittoqqortoormiit
Ittoqqortoormiit is the only settlement in North East Greenland. We had an amazingly sunny day to visit this special community.
RØde Island, East Greenland
RØde Island is red because it is made up of Carboniferous-Permian sediments that were lain down in desert on conditions … More
