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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: geology
Give yourselves a pat on the back: virtually everyone guessed correctly that my fortnight away was chiefly spent exploring Yellowstone National Park, bookended by some time in Grand Teton National Park just next door. The first photo I showed...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:45 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: outcrops
My regular readers are probably quite used to my occasional bouts of silence on this blog, but my low internet profile in the past fortnight has been for the quite justifiable reason that I was away on holiday. I...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:17 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: by Anne
A few days ago I got to learn about the Stikine terrane, its beautiful folded rocks, and its potential fossil fuel reserves during the course of searching and winning the 201st edition of Where on Google Earth. Now it's my...
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 3:00 PM • 9 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: outcrops
Beautiful Scottish geological structures I happened across on my weekend walk.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:00 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: outcrops
Identify the mystery geologic location and win the fabulous prize...of hosting the next Where on (Google) Earth contest.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 5:37 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: by Anne
Can you identify the location of the mystery image from (Google) Earth and explain why it is of geologic interest?
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 3:00 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: photos
It's been a bit quiet around these parts since I posted on the Haiti earthquake. Those of you following me on Twitter know that at that point I was actually spending a few days exploring New York: its parks,...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:35 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: by Anne
The two isolated mountains in Crowders Mountain State Park (NC) have withstood 500 million years of erosion, will they survive a gray and drizzly day with a hydrologist?
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 8:09 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: bloggery
It's still a work in progress, but since I've already inspired Hypocentre via Twitter, I thought I might as well make this more public: View Geoblogosphere in a larger map The idea is simple enough - a lot of geology...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:54 AM • 5 Comments •
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