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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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Earthquake hazard mitigation the Iranian way

Category: geohazards

Capital city in danger of being flattened by earthquakes? Move the capital city

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Tectonics of the Italian Earthquake

Category: geology

Some geological background on the 6.3 near L'Aquila, Italy.

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Expanding Earth "Philosophy": Fail

Category: antiscience

Or should that be FAIL?

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Supercontinent cycles 3, Expanding Earth 0

Category: tectonics

I have one word for expanding-earthers: Avalonia.

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AAPG Day 1: rifting models, snowballs, and other miscellany

Category: academic life

It has to be said that it's never been a particular ambition of mine to mix with the luminaries of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Still, lots of interesting research does get done in the name of finding and...

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Geological analogies of the tectonic kind

Category: tectonics

Callan asks: What are some of your favorite analogies for explaining geological concepts to other people? Teaching through analogy - explaining new concepts to people by referring to things that they know or understand already - can be a powerful...

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Dike swarms and continental barcodes

Category: geopuzzling

Who would have thought a mess of ridges could hold the key to reconstructing past geographies?

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Tectonics shown to drive changes in biodiversity

Category: geology

No surprise to anyone - except biologists, apparently.

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Volcanoes: our noble allies in the battle against export productivity

Category: volcanoes

Finally, a blogospheric spat that actually matters. Craig McClain over at Deep Sea News has accused volcanoes of being the implacable enemies of marine life, based on new research linking them to some bouts of extreme ocean anoxia (where the...

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Geology: the (almost) musical

Category: bloggery

Whilst reading through the song-related submissions to the current, geo-arty edition of the Accretionary Wedge, my mind was cast back to my dim and distant undergrad days, when no field trip was complete without sem-drunken final evening entertainments, and the...

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