Category: deep time
Evidence from my field area of extreme climatic fluctuations 700 million years ago - but does it support the notion that the whole planet froze over?
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Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:40 AM • 20 Comments •
Category: geology
On the 6th day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
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Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:00 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: geology
On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
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Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:00 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: geology
On the 1st day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
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Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:00 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: geology
Weird field behaviour in the Neoproterozoic vanishes when you add more data to the mix.
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Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:00 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: geology
No-one knows - but I wouldn't hold your breath
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Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:02 PM • 43 Comments •
Category: basics
How modelling the Geodynamo is both hard - and strangely easy...
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Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:15 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: in the lab
How the measurements I make in the lab are distilled into the results reported in a typical scientific paper.
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Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:25 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: geology
Apparently, if a handful of dinosaurs survive the KT extinction it ceases to be important.
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Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:58 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: basics
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...
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Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:55 AM • 5 Comments •