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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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Friday focal mechanisms

Category: geology

A brief summary of the week's large earthquakes and their tectonic context.

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How do we know Gabon's 'multicellular' fossils are 2.1 billion years old?

Category: geology

The fossil record prior to 550 million years ago is so patchy that every discovery is going to cause some fanfare. That is certainly case with these odd looking things, which have been proclaimed in Nature as the oldest...

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Creeping fault segments are showing their age

Category: geology

Do faults get weaker as they get older?

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Yellowstone it was

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...

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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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Accretionary Wedge #25: An Illustrated Glossary of Cool Geological Things

Category: geology

A smorgasboard of earth science imagery, in visual dictionary form.

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Lava lake tectonics

Category: geology

In the crater of Erte Ale, we can see processes that take tens of miliions of years on a global scale happening in just a few hours.

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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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A very British paradigm shift

Category: geology

My admiration for the intellectual integrity of Arthur Holmes, and his patient advocacy of continental drift.

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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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