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?
August 21, 2008
Category: geology
Whilst transferring hemispheres, hydrogeologist Anne Jefferson has kindly provided another of her excellent guest posts. Close your eyes. (OK, maybe keep them open so you can read the rest of this post.) Imagine a geosciences specialty where there are lots...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:55 AM • 4 Comments •
August 19, 2008
Category: bloggery
Sorry for the sparse posting over the past few days - I'm about to depart on a trip back to my homeland, and because it's not just a holiday this time - I'm doing some lab work - I had...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:54 AM • 3 Comments •
August 15, 2008
Category: geopuzzling
This authors of the paper the figure below comes from claim that it's a fossil of some kind: Do you agree? What do you think it is, and how old do you think it is?...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:38 AM • 22 Comments •
August 13, 2008
Category: volcanoes
There's lots of volcanic action in the Aleutians arc at the moment, with three volcanoes: Okmok. Cleveland, and Kastochi, all erupting at various points in the last month or so. The Volcanism Blog and the Eruptions blog have both been...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:54 AM • 12 Comments •
August 11, 2008
Category: geology
What is the best way to plot the timescale? Mine, obviously...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:26 PM • 15 Comments •
August 8, 2008
Category: bloggery
The Seed overlords would like to find a little bit more about who you are. If you take the time to complete this survey, you are rewarded with the chance to win Apple stuff. Some of my fellow Sciblings have...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:40 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: geology
So I've been playing around a bit with my mini timescale, and it is now available in two flavours, the original, but improved, right to left orientation: Download EPS version and the all-new left to right version, which I have...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:37 AM • 23 Comments •
August 7, 2008
Category: geology
Whenever you're trying to talk about science to a broader audience, one of the major challenges is cutting out the jargon. Sometimes, though, the real difficulty is not so much in translating the jargon, as identifying it in the first...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:12 PM • 19 Comments •
August 6, 2008
Category: geology
No surprise to anyone - except biologists, apparently.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:57 PM • 5 Comments •
August 5, 2008
Category: geology
Online geology! Compatible with Google Earth!
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:55 PM • 4 Comments •
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