Professor Chris Turney is a British geologist who has recently been awarded a prestigious Australian Research Laureate Fellowship with the University of New South Wales.
He is the author of the popular science books Bones, Rocks and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened and Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons From Climates Past, as well as numerous scientific papers and magazine articles. His latest book is 1912:the Year the World Discovered Antarctica.
Chris Turney appears in The Big Chill and An Hour with Chris Turney.
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