Earthquake hazard mitigation the Iranian way
Category: geohazards
Capital city in danger of being flattened by earthquakes? Move the capital city
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:30 AM • 8 Comments •
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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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Tectonics of the Italian Earthquake
Category: geology
Some geological background on the 6.3 near L'Aquila, Italy.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:43 PM • 15 Comments •
Expanding Earth "Philosophy": Fail
Category: antiscience
Or should that be FAIL?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:15 PM • 19 Comments •
Supercontinent cycles 3, Expanding Earth 0
Category: tectonics
I have one word for expanding-earthers: Avalonia.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:05 AM • 55 Comments •
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...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:24 PM • 7 Comments •
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...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:12 PM • 6 Comments •
Dike swarms and continental barcodes
Category: geopuzzling
Who would have thought a mess of ridges could hold the key to reconstructing past geographies?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:02 PM • 0 Comments •
Tectonics shown to drive changes in biodiversity
Category: geology
No surprise to anyone - except biologists, apparently.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:57 PM • 5 Comments •
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...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:34 AM • 10 Comments •
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...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:52 AM • 8 Comments •
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