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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Where the Earth's magnetic field comes from
How modelling the Geodynamo is both hard - and strangely easy...Posted on March 7, 2008 12:15 PM • 9 Comments •
Imbrication and potholes in the Zebra River
Some background on Friday's geopuzzlePosted on February 12, 2008 7:38 AM • 5 Comments •
Do we need a new geological epoch?
Anthropocene! Naming a new geological time period after ourselves certainly has a nice dramatic ring to it, even if it smacks of the hubris that got us into our current climatic mess in the first place. But can our...Posted on January 30, 2008 8:52 AM • 8 Comments •
Annoying misconceptions in Geology
The manglings of geology that get my inner pedant's teeth grindingPosted on January 22, 2008 11:42 AM • 14 Comments •
Testability in Earth Science
How can studies of the geological past yield repeatable experiments?Posted on November 12, 2007 11:38 AM • 9 Comments •
Palaeomagnetism: from drilling to publication
How the measurements I make in the lab are distilled into the results reported in a typical scientific paper.Posted on October 9, 2007 11:25 AM • 6 Comments •
A primer on the origin of the Earth
I heartily second Lab Lemmings recommendation of the Skepchick's series on 'The Origin of the Earth', an opus in five parts: I: Introduction, the Scientific Toolbox, and Cosmic Starstuff II: Crustal Chemistry, the Solar Nebula, and the Solar System III:...Posted on May 14, 2007 12:30 PM • 1 Comments •
Geological Basics: the art of Paleomagic
If I'm ever going to talk about my own research in any detail, I'm first going to have to explain a little (or a lot) about the field I fell into almost by accident, paleomagnetism. Literally 'ancient magnetism', paleomagnetism is...Posted on May 4, 2007 8:55 AM • 5 Comments •
What do you want to know about geology?
Thermochronic suggests that we in the Geoblogosphere should start paying a bit more attention to what is written about our areas of specialisation on Wikipedia. I've been vaguely toying with this idea for a while, especially since I've started on...Posted on April 5, 2007 6:30 AM • 9 Comments •
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