• Question: your topic really got me thinking! What a bizarre subject to study! What results do you usually get? Are they fairly similar?

    Asked by Madi to Sheona, Craig on 10 Nov 2015.
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      Craig Bull answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      The results can be wildly different from study top study or you can start to see trends between your studies – this information then allows us to start to design new materials or ask different questions using the techniques we use – we are at times just exploring possibilities (which can be endless)

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      Sheona Masterton answered on 13 Nov 2015:

      A lot of my work involves finding loads of different interpretations and testing how well they actually work together to tell a story about the history of Earth. Quite often things don’t make sense at all, so that’s when the fun bit starts and I can start testing my own ideas using as much data as I can get my hands on. Like Craig said, most of the time it’s about exploring the different possibilities- except in my case I’m often exploring things that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, so it can be very difficult to be certain of the results!

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