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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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Warm heavy rainfall + glaciers + steep mountain flanks + exposed unconsolidated sediments are a recipe for debris flows in the Cascades Range. Let me tell you the story of one.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 7:48 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: fieldwork
and a little help from a hand lens...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 2:55 PM • 8 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: geology
What's available, what should be available, what tools do we need to use them?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:00 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: fieldwork
More photos and commentary from my field trip to Oman
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:22 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: fieldwork
[a post by Anne Jefferson] If you ask my mom how I got started in geology, she'd tell you that it began with her taking 3-year-old me to see landslides coming off steep hillslopes during the spring thaw. That makes...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:02 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: fieldwork
More pretty photos from my Oman trip
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:48 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: field gear
Help us brainstorm the ultimate geological mapping app
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:25 PM • 22 Comments •
Category: fieldwork
What I did on my fieldwork....with pretty photos.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:06 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: fieldwork
[a post by Anne Jefferson] Adding to the meme begun by Short Geologist (requirements for a field hotel) and followed on by Maria (requirements for a field vehicle), I'll present my requirements for a field pack. The topic has been...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:36 PM • 12 Comments •
