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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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deep time:

Darwin, Deep Time and Evolution

Category: general science

A geological perspective was necessary to see the true power of natural selection.

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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.

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More thoughts on illustrating geological time

Category: geology

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

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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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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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2700 million years in one outcrop

Category: geology

Now this is what I call continental stablity...

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The slow death of a sedimentary basin

Category: geology

Time catches up with us all - even rocks...

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Pangaea Day, geology-style

Category: geology

A brief geographic trip into the late Triassic.

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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...

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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...

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