• Ruth Siddall on Urban Geology

  • Feb 20 2025
  • Length: 34 mins
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Ruth Siddall on Urban Geology

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  • At first sight, urban geology sounds like an oxymoron. How can you do geology with no rocky outcrops anywhere in sight within the built-up environments of cities? It turns out you can do a great deal of geology, and Ruth Siddall has been doing just that for the past 10 years. In the podcast, she describes some of the many aspects of geology, from petrology to paleontology, that can be seen very clearly in building stone. She also takes us on a walking tour in London from the Monument to the Great Fire of London to the Tower of London.


    Siddall has developed nearly 50 urban geology-themed walks and built up a database of over 4,300 urban localities of geological interest. She is a postdoctoral researcher at Trinity College, Dublin, studying the social history and geological provenance of stone in 18th century buildings in Britain and Ireland.

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