Question: When did you realize you loved geology??

Natasha Dowey answered on 4 Mar 2019:

I grew up in Cornwall, and loved going to the beach. The cliffs in Cornwall are pretty awesome, and I was really curious about them- why they formed, why they looked like they did. So I studied physical geography at GSCE and A level. I did some projects about volcanoes, and was hooked. Volcanoes are geology to the extreme- most rocks take millions of years to form, but volcanoes can create new rocks in minutes and days, and they impact so many parts of human lives. I found them really interesting, and went on to study them at university. Volcanoes link to many other aspects of earth science- plate tectonics, sedimentation, chemistry, deep earth processes, climate science, science communication… as I’ve got older my love of geology has got a lot bigger then just volcanoes, but volcano science will always be special to me as what got me hooked on my subject!