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Highly Allochthonous

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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, 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?

Where the Earth's magnetic field comes from

How modelling the Geodynamo is both hard - and strangely easy...

Imbrication and potholes in the Zebra River

Some background on Friday's geopuzzle

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...

Annoying misconceptions in Geology

The manglings of geology that get my inner pedant's teeth grinding

Testability in Earth Science

How can studies of the geological past yield repeatable experiments?

Palaeomagnetism: from drilling to publication

How the measurements I make in the lab are distilled into the results reported in a typical scientific paper.

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:...

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...

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...

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