Distant Thunder
Articles by Nina Morgan
The History of Geology Group
Articles by HOGG member Nina Morgan published in ‘GeoScientist’.
These short vignettes explore interesting aspects of people or topics that have played a part in past geological communities revealing how geologists lived and thought and how we can often recognise echoes in our present-day practices. They are all worthwhile reads.
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A marriage of true minds
01 FEBRUARY 2020
Nina Morgan recounts a surprise double wedding
A casualty of war
01 NOVEMBER 2019
Nina Morgan celebrates the work of Ethel Wood
Get the picture?
01 OCTOBER 2019
Nina Morgan on Marie Stopes, a formidable force in palaeobotany
Distant Thunder: Turning the tide
01 SEPTEMBER 2019
Nina Morgan on the rocky road to gender equality
Distant thunder: Credit where credit is due
01 AUGUST 2019
Nina Morgan applauds a remarkably frank revelation
Distant Thunder: Behind every good man…
01 JULY 2019
Nina Morgan ponders the marriage of William Buckland and Mary Morland
Equal opportunities
31 MAY 2019
Nina Morgan on the pioneering Geologists’ Association
Distant Thunder: Beauty and brains
01 MAY 2019
Nina Morgan on early attitudes towards female geologists
Onshore exploration
01 APRIL 2019
Nina Morgan on a sticky situation in Cumbria
Pen to paper
01 MARCH 2019
Collaboration as a cure to writer’s block
Romance of the Fossiles
01 FEBRUARY 2019
John Hailstone’s convoluted path to love
A Christmas cracker
30 NOVEMBER 2018
Nina Morgan portrays the meteoritic Christmas eve of 1965
Distant Thunder: Rock star
01 NOVEMBER 2018
Nina Morgan celebrates a geologist who went to war
Distant Thunder: Soldiering on
31 AUGUST 2018
Nina Morgan on the advantages of a daily commute
Spot on!
01 MARCH 2018
Geologist and science writer Nina Morgan celebrates the late Trevor Ford’s uncanny ability to be at the right – or wrong – place at the right time.
Climate change comes to Bagley Wood
01 DECEMBER 2017
Geologist and Science Writer Nina Morgan considers some new evidence
Fashion in the field
02 JULY 2017
Geologists often have a distinctive sartorial style, finds Nina Morgan
Distant Thunder – Material matters
01 MAY 2017
Nina Morgan discovers that a little geochemistry can go a along way…
Distant Thunder – Smooth operator
01 JUNE 2016
Geologist and Science Writer Nina Morgan discovers how a Scots stonemason changed the face of Victorian cemeteries
Distant Thunder – Modest proposals
02 MAY 2016
As geologist and science writer Nina Morgan can testify, scientific modesty can cloud conclusions
Distant Thunder – Goody Bags
01 FEBRUARY 2016
Geologist and science writer Nina Morgan wonders what to do with freebies
Distant Thunder – Meet the neighbours
01 SEPTEMBER 2015
Nina Morgan discovers that ‘what you know’ can be less important than ‘who your neighbours are’.
Distant Thunder – Dizzy heights
01 JUNE 2015
Nina Morgan celebrates a high point in the history of geology
Distant Thunder – Glorious mud!
01 MAY 2015
Nina Morgan waxes lyrical about Liberty Hyde Bailey, who extolled the stuff in verse.
Distant Thunder – The secret agent
01 APRIL 2014
Geologist and science writer Nina Morgan discovers how a geologist saved the skin of the King of France
Distant Thunder – Ladies’ Man
31 JANUARY 2014
So what were Henry de la Beche and that lady doing in that yacht, eh?
Distant Thunder: Name game
01 SEPTEMBER 2013
Geologist and science writer Nina Morgan discov…
Distant Thunder – A word to the wise
01 AUGUST 2013
Nina Morgan discovers that bricks and mortar are not always the best investment
Distant Thunder: Wedi’i golli yn y cyfieithiad §
01 APRIL 2013
Geologist and science writer Nina Morgan asks – what’s in a name?
Distant Thunder – Chat lines
01 MARCH 2013
Behind every successful man, there stands an amazed woman – Nina Morgan reports.
Distant Thunder – Man in the Moon
04 FEBRUARY 2013
Geologist and science writer Nina Morgan discovers a new twist to an old Sinatra song
Distant Thunder
03 DECEMBER 2012
Geologist and science writer Nina Morgan explores a green alternative to Christmas cards
Distant Thunder
02 NOVEMBER 2012
As geologist and science writer Nina Morgan discovers, geology of a sort has already provided clues to life on Mars
Climate change
01 OCTOBER 2012
Distant Thunder – Nina Morgan on Charles Lyell’s curious ‘climate change’ hypothesis
Rock addicts
01 SEPTEMBER 2012
Distant Thunder – Nina Morgan on an obsessive collector who lost his marbles
A bit on the side
01 AUGUST 2012
Distant Thunder – Nina Morgan celebrates a former brick pit
‘Twas ever thus
01 JULY 2012
Distant Thunder – Nina Morgan reveals that getting straight answers out of scientists was never easy
Food for thought
01 JUNE 2012
Distant Thunder – Food for thought
Losing the Plot
01 MAY 2012
Distant Thunder – Losing the Plot
‘Help your obituarist’
01 APRIL 2012
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A penny for their thoughts
01 MARCH 2012
Distant Thunder – Nina Morgan on the scientific influence of Hill’s Penny Post
Love on the Rocks
01 FEBRUARY 2012
Distant Thunder – With St Valentine’s Day in mind, Nina Morgan contemplates true love, on the rocks.
Distant Thunder
01 JANUARY 2012
Risen from the ashes: Nina Morgan discovers a Christmassy map
To hell in a handbasket
01 SEPTEMBER 2010
To Hell in a handbasket. To coincide with the Annual Festival of the British Science Association, Nina Morgan reflects on an earlier religious divide…
A bright spark
01 JANUARY 2009
Distant Thunder by Nina Morgan: A bright spark – geology’s Mr Whitegoods
Christmas Cheer – or, the gourmet geologist
01 DECEMBER 2008
Distant Thunder by Nina Morgan: Christmas Cheer – or the gourmet geologist
Perspicacious Perce
01 NOVEMBER 2008
Distant Thunder – Ted Nield on the first man to spot North Sea Oil…
On track
01 OCTOBER 2008
Distant Thunder by Nina Morgan – On Track… John Phillips takes the train for the first time
A tale of two cities
01 SEPTEMBER 2008
Distant Thunder by Nina Morgan – a tale of two cities and bad lodgings
Never on a Sunday
01 AUGUST 2008
Distant Thunder: Nina Morgan on a geological record of the working week
Cold Comfort
01 JUNE 2008
Distant Thunder by Nina Morgan: why Marie Stopes might have done for Robert Falcon Scott with her palaeobotanical talk…
He who hesitates
01 MAY 2008
Distant Thunder: Nina Morgan reveals how the British Museum lost out
Forgotten Chap
01 APRIL 2008
Distant Thunder: Science writer and historian Nina Morgan unearths another mute inglorious Milton
