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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.
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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Single-celled trace fossils?
Category: geology
Remember those controversional macro- and trace fossils from the 2 billion year-old Stirling formation? They seemed to offer the intriguing possibility that multicellular life may have popped into being far earlier in Earth history than is generally supposed. However, this...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:58 AM • 1 Comments •
Telling a dinosaur footprint from a hole in the ground
Category: fossils
How do palaeontologists know?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:53 AM • 2 Comments •
The Stirling fauna: big critters from the dawn of time?
Category: fossils
I really wasn't intending to leave Geopuzzle 14 hanging out unanswered on the interweb for as long as it has - and not just because my delay has apparently put my beer stash in jeopardy. The answer is actually both...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:53 AM • 6 Comments •
Geopuzzle #14
Category: geopuzzling
This authors of the paper the figure below comes from claim that it's a fossil of some kind: Do you agree? What do you think it is, and how old do you think it is?...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:38 AM • 22 Comments •
Tectonics shown to drive changes in biodiversity
Category: geology
No surprise to anyone - except biologists, apparently.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:57 PM • 5 Comments •
Archean bacterial mats under the hammer
Category: geology
Geovandalism rears it's ugly head once more.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:25 AM • 5 Comments •
Ye gods...
Category: antiscience
There's geovandalism - and then there's sheer f***ing insanity. Thousands of pre-dinosaur fossils are scattered in the rocks of the Guryul ravine, rated by geologists as the world's premier site for the study of species from the Permian period (299-251...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:33 PM • 8 Comments •
Sadly, not sandworms
Category: geology
The answer to Friday's geopuzzler
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:18 AM • 6 Comments •
Bacteria and black smokers go back a long way
Category: fossils
I tempered the other week's repost on some rather impressive 1.5 billion year-old black smoker chimneys, and the fossilised microbes found within them, with some words of caution about the 'clues to the origin of life' spin that the...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:10 AM • 5 Comments •
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