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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
Give yourselves a pat on the back: virtually everyone guessed correctly that my fortnight away was chiefly spent exploring Yellowstone National Park, bookended by some time in Grand Teton National Park just next door. The first photo I showed...
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Category: by Anne
In a new paper, I show that, on basalts, flowpaths, hydographs, and landscapes coevolve over a million years or more.
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Category: geology
In the crater of Erte Ale, we can see processes that take tens of miliions of years on a global scale happening in just a few hours.
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Category: by Anne
While the deep, geothermal water of Yellowstone is sexy and merits both the tourist and scientific attention given to it, there's a largely untold story in the shallow groundwater, where huge volumes of cold water may advect more heat than the hydrothermal features. A paper by Gardner et al. (2010) begins to shed light on this side of the story.
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Category: photos
It may have grounded much of Europe's air traffic, but at least Eyjafjallajoekull's eruption has a pleasing aesthetic effect on the atmosphere.
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Category: by Anne
My first day at the Geological Society of America conference included lots of beautiful volcano and river photos...and good wine. All in the name of basalt.
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Category: by Anne
One last push for geoblog readers to fund earth science projects that rattle the classroom windows.
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Category: bloggery
Volcanoes and dinosaurs and 50's sci-fi, oh my!
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Category: geology
HiRISE snaps columnar basalts that show signs of being water cooled.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: geology
Do you get more volcanic eruptions in the aftermath of large earthquakes? Sometimes.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:38 AM • 5 Comments •
