In case you didn’t know, this is the International Year of the Planet. United Nations say so. And to mark the occasion, on 6 August at the 33rd International Geological Congress in Oslo, Norway, the first results of the world’s biggest ever geological mapping project, covering the entire planet, were unveiled.
Scientists from 79 nations are working on the project, called OneGeology and co-ordinated by the British Geological Survey, to show what the world would look like if it were stripped of life and its geology exposed.