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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.
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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Category: geohazards
The location of yesterday's earthquake in Canada was controlled by tectonic processes that operated, and ceased, hundreds of millions of years ago.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:00 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: geology
My admiration for the intellectual integrity of Arthur Holmes, and his patient advocacy of continental drift.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:55 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: deep time
Evidence from my field area of extreme climatic fluctuations 700 million years ago - but does it support the notion that the whole planet froze over?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:40 AM • 20 Comments •
Category: deep time
A new attempt to map out the events of early earth history.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:10 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: general science
A geological perspective was necessary to see the true power of natural selection.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:05 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: environment
Science doesn't need to be placed anywhere, it just needs us to listen to what it tells us.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:54 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: geology
What is the best way to plot the timescale? Mine, obviously...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:26 PM • 16 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 •
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 •
Category: geology
Now this is what I call continental stablity...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:11 AM • 6 Comments •
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