6 fields a-flipping
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On the 6th day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
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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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Category: geology
On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:00 AM • 1 Comments •
An APWP
Category: geology
On the 1st day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:00 AM • 3 Comments •
The amazing disappearing asymmetric magnetic reversals
Category: geology
Weird field behaviour in the Neoproterozoic vanishes when you add more data to the mix.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:00 PM • 9 Comments •
Is the Earth's magnetic field about to flip?
Category: geology
No-one knows - but I wouldn't hold your breath
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:02 PM • 43 Comments •
Where the Earth's magnetic field comes from
Category: basics
How modelling the Geodynamo is both hard - and strangely easy...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:15 PM • 9 Comments •
Palaeomagnetism: from drilling to publication
Category: in the lab
How the measurements I make in the lab are distilled into the results reported in a typical scientific paper.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:25 AM • 6 Comments •
A paradigm nudge in paleontology
Category: geology
Apparently, if a handful of dinosaurs survive the KT extinction it ceases to be important.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:58 AM • 4 Comments •
Geological Basics: the art of Paleomagic
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...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:55 AM • 5 Comments •
