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You're not missing much 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.

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A girl, a pack, a forest, a river 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

Geopuzzle #7

Category: geology

Qu'est-que ce?...

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Napalm is not a good fire extinguisher

Category: academic life

How not to look innocent when you're accused of academic misconduct

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February 27, 2008

Mildy shook up

Category: earthquakes

An earthquake in the UK? What's that about?

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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:...

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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...

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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

Category: academic life

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

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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:...

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February 20, 2008

It's our language and we want it back!

Category: ranting

It's English. You can't change it without our say-so.

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