Pangaea Day, geology-style
A brief geographic trip into the late Triassic.Posted on May 12, 2008 10:49 AM • 0 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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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 •
What's up with those Archean sandstones?
In addition to searching out evidence for Archean microbial mats, my revisitation of the Pongola sandstones gave me the chance to look a bit more closely at their lithology. When I last posted pictures from this sequence, there was a...Posted on May 7, 2008 10:34 AM • 7 Comments •
Archean bacterial mats under the hammer
Geovandalism rears it's ugly head once more.Posted on May 6, 2008 11:25 AM • 5 Comments •
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 •
Peperite: a basaltic sneeze into wet sediments
The outcrop that I gave you to ponder on Friday is pretty strange, but I can assure you that this isn't a wall: Most of you correctly guessed that the dark fragments are composed of a mafic (basalt-esque) igneous rock,...Posted on April 8, 2008 9:11 AM • 3 Comments •
Death Valley Dispatches
If you're bored with the recent metabloggery here (don't worry, I'm done, and with 'nary a mention of the F-word), you could do much worse than to head over to The Dynamic Earth, where Eric has been posting an excellent...Posted on April 7, 2008 7:32 AM • 0 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 •
Sometimes you just have to plot the data yourself
An old(er) Grand Canyon? Yes, if you ignore one annoying data point...Posted on March 19, 2008 10:45 AM • 2 Comments •
635 days later
Hurray! Finally published!Posted on March 19, 2008 6:25 AM • 11 Comments •
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