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Highly Allochthonous

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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, he is now a post-doc at the University of Johannesburg.

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Sabbatical

I'm off into the field again for a week. Since the geoblogging around here has been fairly light of late, you might not even miss me. Hopefully, a bit of fieldwork is just what I need to get me out...

Rock Gallery

You may or may not have noticed a new addition to the row of tabs just beneath my banner. The 'Rock Gallery' is a new way I'm trying out of showing what's in the archives, taking advantage of the fact...

Rocks on the airwaves

The geopuns just keep coming - the inaugural geology 'podclast' has just gone up over at goodSchist. Your hosts Chris Town and Ron Schott discuss the recent volcanic activity on Kilauea, the latest bout of navel gazing stirred up by...

I'll be back soon...

Sorry for the lack of activity this week - my mental energies have been fully engaged by events in the Real World over the past few days, and as a consequence I haven't managed to focus well enough to write...

Death Valley Dispatches

If you're bored with the recent metabloggery here (don't worry, I'm done, and with 'nary a mention of the F-word), you could do much worse than to head over to The Dynamic Earth, where Eric has been posting an excellent...

A few more thoughts on the position and the responsiblities of science bloggers

Is my blogging undermining my scientific credibility

Now showing in the geoblogosphere

If you haven't already checked it out, the latest Accretionary Wedge went up while I was away, stacked full of entertaining musings from your favorite geobloggers about the role of geology, and geologists, in the entertainment industry. Or, as our...

Mountain musings 2: What's God got to do with it?

A meditation on different perspectives on, and responses to, natural grandeur.

Fieldwork

I'm away until the end of the week doing some more sampling. Don't mess up the place while I'm away....

One year in the Evil Empire

Does Scienceblogs really look so ugly from the outside?

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