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.

What the heck does 'Highly Allochthonous' mean?

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Recent Posts

• Geopuzzle #11
• Active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes
• What's up with those Archean sandstones?
• Archean bacterial mats under the hammer
• Publication tag clouds
• Sabbatical
• A planet is for life, not just for Earth Day
• Rock Gallery
• How big was that asteroid? The latest geochemist/geophysicist smackdown
• Distressingly normal corals infest nuclear test crater

Blogs I read

Geology
• All of My Faults are Stress Related
• Andrew Alden
• Apparent Dip
• Clastic Detritus
• Geotripper
• Green Gabbro
• Good Schist
• Harmonic Tremors
• Hindered Settling
• Lab Lemming
• Lost Geologist
• Magma cum Laude
• NOVA Geoblog
• Olelog
• Ontario Geofish
• Ron Schott
• Sismordia
Fossils
• Afarensis
• The Ethical Palaeontologist
• Fish Feet
• Darren Naish
• Laelaps
• The Lancelet
Climate
• Head In a Cloud
• James' Empty Blog
• Open Mind
• RealClimate
• Stoat
Misc. Science
• According to Colwell
• Bad Astronomy
• Bad Science
• Centauri Dreams
• Panda's Thumb
Scientists
• Am I a woman scientist?
• Minor Revisions
• Propter Doc
• Rising to the Occasion
• Sciencewoman
Carnivals
• The Accretionary Wedge
• The Boneyard
• Philosophia Naturalis
• What's up Postdoc?

Categories

• academic life
  • in the lab
• bloggery
  • links
  • ranting
  • rugby
• climatology
• environment
• fieldwork
• general science
  • antiscience
  • public science
• geohazards
• geology
  • basics
  • earthquakes
  • fossils
  • geophysics
  • geopuzzling
  • planets
  • tectonics
  • volcanoes

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