Priceless gifts from an everlasting mountain range

Dr. Rob Muir

Long before Africa, when the supercontinent Gondwana was still assembled, an enormous mountain range rose along its southern edge. These mountains' formation and exceptional endurance have given the world three unique gifts: the spectacular fossils of the Karoo Basin, the incredibly diverse Cape Floristic Kingdom, and a home where early humans could thrive.

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Rob Muir is a geologist interested in understanding how a changing landscape affects the life that occupies it. His current pursuit is to recalibrate the tectonic events that occurred during the breakup of Gondwana, and to determine how affected African landscapes have changed through time. Rob typically combines radiogenic isotopes with field observations to answer research questions – by either dating stratigraphic units, exposed surfaces, or determining a rock’s thermal history. He is a senior lecturer at the University of the Free State.

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