Darwin, Deep Time and Evolution
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A geological perspective was necessary to see the true power of natural selection.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:05 PM • 12 Comments •
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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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The rightful place of science: putting us in ours
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 •
More thoughts on illustrating geological time
Category: geology
What is the best way to plot the timescale? Mine, obviously...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:26 PM • 16 Comments •
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...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:37 AM • 23 Comments •
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...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:12 PM • 19 Comments •
2700 million years in one outcrop
Category: geology
Now this is what I call continental stablity...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:11 AM • 6 Comments •
The slow death of a sedimentary basin
Category: geology
Time catches up with us all - even rocks...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:32 AM • 3 Comments •
Pangaea Day, geology-style
Category: geology
A brief geographic trip into the late Triassic.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:49 AM • 0 Comments •
Uniformitarianism in action (sort of)
Category: geopuzzling
Most of you correctly identified the sedimentary structures in Friday's mystery photo: two sets of ripple marks can be seen on the left, and a lower bed on the right has what look like dessication/mud cracks, formed by the drying...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:48 AM • 3 Comments •
Do we need a new geological epoch?
Category: geology
Anthropocene! Naming a new geological time period after ourselves certainly has a nice dramatic ring to it, even if it smacks of the hubris that got us into our current climatic mess in the first place. But can our...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:52 AM • 8 Comments •
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