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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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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...

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...

What keeps the geoblogosphere awake at night?

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...

Endorsements don't get much better than this

It always seems rather self-aggrandizing to start crowing when other bloggers award me blogging awards. This is not to say that it happens that often - and it's certainly not that the recognition goes unappreciated when it does. It's...

Should I be linking to you?

Janet tells me that it's Blogroll Amnesty Day: I think that the blogosphere is (or could be) different from media wherein news and commentary is "broadcast" to an audience by allowing back and forth communication -- the kind of thing...

Accretionary Wedge #5, and some new faces

The first Accretionary Wedge of 2008 is now up at Green Gabbro, and it seems that we geobloggers are all too happy to have a little rant about the more annoying geological misconceptions and misrepresentations that are floating around in...

Accretionary Wedge #4

For those who don't keep an eye on the side-bar, the latest geoblogging extravaganza is up at GoodSchist. Go and find out about the pretty, pretty rocks that we all keep on our desks along with the unread papers, unmarked...

AGU on the interweb

It's been a somewhat frustrating week for this geoblogger, with many potentially interesting stories popping up containing some variant of "presented this week at AGU in San Francisco". With 15,000+ Earth Scientists collected in the same place, it's no surprise...

Carnivalling

Philosophia Naturalis #15 is up over at Sorting Out Science. My musings on the Black Sea flood paper made the cut; I've been quite amused by the attention that that particular post has generated, given that (a) I almost gave...

You can...

...complete your dissertation. Look at Brian. ...actually make progress in the academic job market. Look at Propter Doc, soon to be "I Lecture, Therefore I Am". Hearty congratulations to them both....

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