From Tanya Roberts' high-heeled seismologist in "A View to a Kill" to the pyroclastics of "Dante's Peak", geology and geologists have found a special place in the movies. Here are some of my favourites.
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Sadly, Tanya Roberts has died. Her portrayal of a seismologist in the
1985 James Bond movie "A View to a Kill" inspired a generation of young
women and men to become geoscientists. At least that's the way I would
like to remember her.
I grew up in the western US where I caught the geology bug. After grad school on the east coast and post-docs in California and Australia, I got lucky and landed a university position in New Zealand. I miss baseball.
Though the images presented on this page may be subject to copyright, I feel they are covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
they are low resolution copies of film posters, they contribute to the articles significantly, they do not limit the copyright owner's ability to sell copies of the films in any way, and no free equivalents are readily available at this time.
