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On the 2nd 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 2nd day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:00 AM • 6 Comments •
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Will the geoblog readers put rocks in elementary kids' stockings?
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New evidence for the early evolution of photosynthesis: was the early Earth really as oxygen-free as we think it was?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:30 AM • 20 Comments •
Category: geology
I'm not sure I'm really wise in jumping on this meme (started by Chuck and taken up by Hypocentre, Silver Fox and Callan), because I have a feeling I'm going to end up feeling a little inadequate; my heavy does...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 2:43 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: geology
The press office of the Natural History Museum must have been beside themselves with this one: asked to analyse an unusual mineral from a mine in Serbia, one of their scientists types the composition he's determined into Google and discovers,...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:30 AM • •
Category: geology
At the beginning of the week, I came across this story, about the new 'Ultrachron' machine (developed by Michael Williams and Michael Jercinovic at the University of Massachusetts), which seems to offer some exciting possibilities for extracting the detailed tectonic...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:08 AM • 3 Comments •
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