November 23, 1963 the first episode of the British science-fiction television programme “ Doctor Who* ” was broadcast. The series follows the adventures of the “ Doctor “, last survivor of the Time Lords, an incredible advanced alien race once native to the planet Gallifrey . In his 50 years long history the abilities of the Doctor to manipulate space and time made physicists and astronomers alike speculate about the science behind Doctor Who , but what about the geology as depicted in the series?

As Time Lord the Doctor should be confident in the basics of terrestrial history and if he wishes to travel further back in time also in chronostratigraphy. Geologists are also sort of Time Lords , even if their instruments are not so sophisticated as a TARDIS (and lack self-consciousness), they were able to produce a map of time. But not only stratigraphy, also seismology and volcanology made a guest appearance in the series. [More]