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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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Old tectonic scars run deep: the magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Ontario

Category: geohazards

The location of yesterday's earthquake in Canada was controlled by tectonic processes that operated, and ceased, hundreds of millions of years ago.

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When it rains a lot and the mountains fall down

Category: by Anne

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.

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Top Kill: what BP is trying to do

Category: environment

How injecting drilling mud can hopefully stem the well leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Drilling for oil is more risky than it used to be

Category: environment

Our unabated demand for oil is driving drilling in places where accidents of this sort - major, hard to stem leaks - are going to be a major risk.

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The seismic non-pocalypse

Category: geohazards

Why seismically, 2010 is not as out of the ordinary as some people think - and why the question is actually the wrong one to be asking anyway.

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Volcanic ash: you can't avoid if you can't detect it

Category: ranting

"we have got a storm scope and weather radar and they were looking straight through it."

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Toads: seismic prognosticators?

Category: geohazards

Is a pet toad the new must-have earthquake detector?

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Haiti: what next for the Enriquillo Fault?

Category: geohazards

On sections of the fault adjacent to January's rupture, strain built up by plate motions is still there, waiting to be released. The only question is when, and how.

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Man-made mud volcano starting to look like a real volcano

Category: Lusi

Was big muddy pool with a steaming vent in the middle. Now big muddy pool with steaming hill in the middle.

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Haiti's seismic future

Category: geohazards

Is Haiti safe yet? Will there be another devastating earthquake in the future - and if so, when?

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