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Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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January 30, 2008
Category: geology
Anthropocene! Naming a new geological time period after ourselves certainly has a nice dramatic ring to it, even if it smacks of the hubris that got us into our current climatic mess in the first place. But can our...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:52 AM • 8 Comments •
January 28, 2008
Category: antiscience
There's geovandalism - and then there's sheer f***ing insanity. Thousands of pre-dinosaur fossils are scattered in the rocks of the Guryul ravine, rated by geologists as the world's premier site for the study of species from the Permian period (299-251...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:33 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: geology
The answer to Friday's geopuzzler
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:18 AM • 6 Comments •
January 25, 2008
Category: geology
Not only did everyone seemed to enjoy the big crater debate, but there were also suggestions in the comments that more conundrums of this ilk might be make a fun companion for What on Google Earth (which I never seem...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:30 PM • 25 Comments •
Category: geohazards
When I was out in New Zealand doing fieldwork for my PhD, I spent most of my time based in Gisborne, a sleepy little town on the east coast of the North Island. Over Christmas, it seems that Gisborne was...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:27 AM • 2 Comments •
January 24, 2008
Category: bloggery
The first Accretionary Wedge of 2008 is now up at Green Gabbro, and it seems that we geobloggers are all too happy to have a little rant about the more annoying geological misconceptions and misrepresentations that are floating around in...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:29 AM • 7 Comments •
January 23, 2008
Category: planets
The little fellow circled here (in the solar sense of "little" - it's probably a few thousand miles across) appeared on the 4th January, and probably marks the start of Solar Cycle 24. A slight dent in those bold...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:35 AM • 1 Comments •
January 22, 2008
Category: geology
The manglings of geology that get my inner pedant's teeth grinding
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:42 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: academic life
This month saw the launch of the first issue of Nature's latest specialist offshoot, Nature Geoscience. This is a monthly publication presumably designed to act as a clearing house for those contributions which don't quite have the pizzazz to make...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:32 AM • 10 Comments •
January 21, 2008
Category: geology
I was rather taken aback - in a good way - by the large number of responses to last week's crater conundrum. Most people seemed to conclude that this structure in southeast Algeria: was not, in fact, an asteroid crater....
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:36 AM • 8 Comments •
