Lots of oxygen on the Archean Earth?
Category: geology
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 • 18 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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Category: geology
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 • 18 Comments •
Category: geology
Big subsurface ocean? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:58 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: climatology
In a parallel universe without the Montreal Protocol, mankind is gearing up for some major sunburn.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:13 PM • 39 Comments •
Category: planets
Hydrocarbon rain and ice volcanoes - Titan changes before Cassini's eyes
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:33 AM • 1 Comments •
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
No-one knows - but I wouldn't hold your breath
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:02 PM • 43 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 •
Category: fossils
How do palaeontologists know?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:53 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: fossils
I really wasn't intending to leave Geopuzzle 14 hanging out unanswered on the interweb for as long as it has - and not just because my delay has apparently put my beer stash in jeopardy. The answer is actually both...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:53 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: geology
No surprise to anyone - except biologists, apparently.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:57 PM • 5 Comments •
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