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Inertial reference frames
Seeing things from a more neutral point of view allows for a better understanding
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Pasquale Robustini
Earthquakes for dummies
Who do I think I am? Well… I’m a geologist. I know the problem.
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Pasquale Robustini
The geology of Rome’s sampietrini
What’s so special about the “sampietrini”, those little square bricks typical of Rome’s old roads?
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Pasquale Robustini
Earthquakes in Rome
Can the Eternal City be shaken?
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Pasquale Robustini
The 2016 Central Italy Earthquake
A magnitude 6 earthquake wreaked havoc in Italy's central Apennines, in an area famous for typical pasta sauces...
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Pasquale Robustini
The Power of Silicon
Most rock-forming minerals are silicates, silicon-based chemical compounds. Like carbon holds the secret of living things, silicon has the power to…
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Pasquale Robustini
What the hell does a geologist do?
A guide to what makes a geologist unique
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Pasquale Robustini
Geologica 1 - The Archdeacon of Calcutta and a Royal Astronomer in London suggested why mountains rise up high
The first episode of Geologica's journey to the discovery of the Earth: how the British topographic campaign in India led to the Isostasy Principle
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Pasquale Robustini
An Earth's mantle made of uranium?
The search for an effective title misleads the readers of a post
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Pasquale Robustini
Geologica 2 - Moho's mojo
How the coolest Croatian geophysicist and meteorologist discovered the crust-mantle boundary
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Pasquale Robustini
Earthquakes are our friends
We usually think about disasters when we talk about earthquakes; but they carry important information from deep below our beloved planet...
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Pasquale Robustini
Death Bed
Clues of a mass extinction
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Pasquale Robustini
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