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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, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.

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A girl, a pack, a forest, a river 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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Oman's view of the Snowball Earth

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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6 fields a-flipping

Category: geology

On the 6th day of Christmas my true love sent to me...

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3 Helmholtz coils

Category: geology

On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love sent to me...

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An APWP

Category: geology

On the 1st day of Christmas my true love sent to me...

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The amazing disappearing asymmetric magnetic reversals

Category: geology

Weird field behaviour in the Neoproterozoic vanishes when you add more data to the mix.

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Is the Earth's magnetic field about to flip?

Category: geology

No-one knows - but I wouldn't hold your breath

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Where the Earth's magnetic field comes from

Category: basics

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

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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.

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A paradigm nudge in paleontology

Category: geology

Apparently, if a handful of dinosaurs survive the KT extinction it ceases to be important.

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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...

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