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Category: geology
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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, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
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Category: geology
On the 5th day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:00 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: geology
No-one knows - but I wouldn't hold your breath
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Category: geology
What is the best way to plot the timescale? Mine, obviously...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:26 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: basics
Some tips for effective field mapping
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Category: basics
How do you know your if friendly neighbourhood volcano is dead, or merely dozing?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:19 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: basics
How modelling the Geodynamo is both hard - and strangely easy...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:15 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: geology
Some background on Friday's geopuzzle
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:38 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: geology
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 by Chris Rowan at 8:52 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: geology
The manglings of geology that get my inner pedant's teeth grinding
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:42 AM • 16 Comments •
Category: geology
How can studies of the geological past yield repeatable experiments?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:38 AM • 9 Comments •
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