Highly Allochthonous

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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, he is now a post-doc at the University of Johannesburg.

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What's up with those Archean sandstones?

In addition to searching out evidence for Archean microbial mats, my revisitation of the Pongola sandstones gave me the chance to look a bit more closely at their lithology. When I last posted pictures from this sequence, there was a...

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Posted on May 7, 2008 10:34 AM • 7 Comments •

Archean bacterial mats under the hammer

Geovandalism rears it's ugly head once more.

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Posted on May 6, 2008 11:25 AM • 5 Comments •

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...

Posted on April 7, 2008 7:32 AM • 0 Comments •

Fieldwork Album

Scenic and action shots from my sampling trip.

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Posted on March 17, 2008 9:41 AM • 1 Comments •

Geologists in peril - and liking it?

After linking to some spectacular photos taken from right in the path of an avalanche, and a jealousy-inducing photo of himself standing right next to an oozing lava flow, Geotripper asks if geologists have a death wish: I considered what...

Posted on March 4, 2008 10:29 AM • 14 Comments •