Active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes
How do you know your if friendly neighbourhood volcano is dead, or merely dozing?Posted on May 8, 2008 11:19 AM • 4 Comments •
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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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How big was that asteroid? The latest geochemist/geophysicist smackdown
What's the most accurate method of estimating the size of asteroids associated with past impact events?Posted on April 17, 2008 10:18 AM • 4 Comments •
Seismology@home
There's an interesting news story in Nature* about a distributed computing project with a seismological twist. The proposed aim of the Quake-Catcher project is to hack and collate data from laptop accelerometers - designed to protect the hard drive when...Posted on March 27, 2008 12:46 PM • 5 Comments •
Lusi in Time
I've just come across an excellent article in Time about Lusi, the mud volcano currently engulfing eastern Java. Entitled 'A Wound In the Earth', it's a good summary of the human impacts, the attempts to contain the mud, and the...Posted on March 18, 2008 7:50 AM • 4 Comments •
Keep your impacts out of our deglaciation!
Just to prove that it's not a good week for high-impact asteroid theories, John Hawks points to a piece in Science which discusses a growing scepticism about Firestone et al.'s proposal in PNAS last year that the Younger Dryas -...Posted on March 11, 2008 12:38 PM • 7 Comments •
Retreat of the Megatsunami?
The question of whether chevrons and their associated deposits are formed by tsunami is of more than just academic importance; if they are, then we may be severely underestimating the average frequency of events capable of causing destructive tsunami (be...Posted on March 11, 2008 9:59 AM • 2 Comments •
Return of the Megatsunami
The evidence for a recent large asteroid impact in the Indian OceanPosted on March 8, 2008 7:45 AM • 9 Comments •
Mildy shook up
An earthquake in the UK? What's that about?Posted on February 27, 2008 10:05 AM • 10 Comments •
New Zealand gets a festive shaking
When I was out in New Zealand doing fieldwork for my PhD, I spent most of my time based in Gisborne, a sleepy little town on the east coast of the North Island. Over Christmas, it seems that Gisborne was...Posted on January 25, 2008 9:27 AM • 2 Comments •
What on Google Earth?*
Jani has been exploring the Sahara Desert using Google Earth, and would like to know if this structure in southeast Algeria is a crater or not (it can be found at 22 48' N 9 29' E): Before I give...Posted on January 9, 2008 11:37 AM • 60 Comments •
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