Vaguely Informed Commentary From the Wide World of Earth Science
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, he is now a post-doc at the University of Johannesburg.
What the heck does 'Highly Allochthonous' mean?
June 30, 2008
Category: academic life
I've spent most of the last three days camped in front of a scanning electron microscope, looking at lots of evil iron sulphides. And when I say 'most', I really do mean 'most'. The problem when you want access to...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:04 AM • 2 Comments •
June 24, 2008
Category: geopuzzling
The answer? I dunno...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:33 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: academic life
I walked into work today under a beautiful, cloudless, sky - until I looked in the direction of the UJ campus, where an ugly black cloud was accumulating in the direction of the building that houses the Geology department. It...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:36 AM • 4 Comments •
June 21, 2008
Category: academic life
How long is a piece of string?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:13 AM • 12 Comments •
June 19, 2008
Category: geohazards
A timely guest post from hydrogeologist Ann Jefferson.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:17 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: bloggery
Whilst reading through the song-related submissions to the current, geo-arty edition of the Accretionary Wedge, my mind was cast back to my dim and distant undergrad days, when no field trip was complete without sem-drunken final evening entertainments, and the...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:52 AM • 8 Comments •
June 15, 2008
Category: geology
Especially this one...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:06 PM • 7 Comments •
June 11, 2008
Category: geohazards
Did human development increase the seismic hazard in Sichuan?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:24 PM • 15 Comments •
June 9, 2008
Category: bloggery
Suddenly, it's quite wonderfully crowded in my corner of the internets.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:23 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: geohazards
A drainage channel has been cut, but the effect is still uncertain.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:26 AM • 1 Comments •
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