Geopuzzle #7
Category: geology
Qu'est-que ce?...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:58 AM • 26 Comments •
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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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February 29, 2008
Napalm is not a good fire extinguisher
Category: academic life
How not to look innocent when you're accused of academic misconduct
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:47 AM • 2 Comments •
February 27, 2008
Mildy shook up
Category: earthquakes
An earthquake in the UK? What's that about?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:05 AM • 10 Comments •
February 26, 2008
In Jo'burg, you can't see the jungle for the trees
Category: bloggery
One of the biggest unknowns when I moved out here last year was Johannesburg itself, and one of the biggest surprises is illustrated in this picture, looking towards the city centre from outside my office:...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:27 PM • 8 Comments •
Mysterious magma mingling
Category: geopuzzling
I was particularly interested to hear everyone's ideas about last Friday's mystery outcrop, as I'm not entirely sure myself about precisely what's going on. Here's what I observed at the time: This locality is in the Johannesburg Dome - a...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:40 AM • 4 Comments •
February 25, 2008
What keeps the geoblogosphere awake at night?
Category: links
The Accretionary Wedge #6 is up at the Lounge of The Lab Lemming. Chuck challenged us to write about "things which makes us go hmmm", and the answers range from head-scratching over particular outcrops to musing on a planetary and...
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February 24, 2008
State of the post-doc
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After a year in Jo'burg, how's my career going?
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February 23, 2008
What plate tectonics doesn't tell you
Category: geology
How the past may be the key to the tectonic present
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:54 AM • 3 Comments •
February 22, 2008
Geopuzzle #6
Category: geopuzzling
This weeks mission, should you choose to accept it, is to work out what's going on in this rather strange outcrop:...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:36 AM • 13 Comments •
February 20, 2008
It's our language and we want it back!
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It's English. You can't change it without our say-so.
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