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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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August 21, 2008

Hydrogeology is hot!

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...

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August 19, 2008

A (hopefully) brief pause

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...

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August 15, 2008

Geopuzzle #14

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?...

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August 13, 2008

Volcanoes triggering volcanoes?

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...

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August 11, 2008

More thoughts on illustrating geological time

Category: geology

What is the best way to plot the timescale? Mine, obviously...

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August 8, 2008

While I'm asking you for your opinions...

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...

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Timescales for all

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...

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August 7, 2008

When the hell are we?

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...

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August 6, 2008

Tectonics shown to drive changes in biodiversity

Category: geology

No surprise to anyone - except biologists, apparently.

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August 5, 2008

One Geology is very cool indeed

Category: geology

Online geology! Compatible with Google Earth!

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