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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
The fossil record prior to 550 million years ago is so patchy that every discovery is going to cause some fanfare. That is certainly case with these odd looking things, which have been proclaimed in Nature as the oldest...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:25 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: geology
Do faults get weaker as they get older?
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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.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 9:57 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: by Anne
For large urban streams, decades of infrastructure development have often pinned the stream into a narrow corridor. There are ways that existing artificial structures can be put to work to mitigate some of the ecological impacts of urbanization.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 10:00 AM • 4 Comments •
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.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 9:41 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: deep time
A new attempt to map out the events of early earth history.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:10 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: geology
Whilst the the dawn of the Cambrian clearly marked the diversification of mobile, active animals and biomineralisers, the story of their first origins appear to have begun much earlier.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 2:15 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: by Anne
Recently published hydrogeology and geomorphology papers that make my heart sing
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 5:28 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: geology
On the 8th day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 2:45 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: by Anne
Here are some of my favorite articles from the past month. They reflect an amalgamation of my research, teaching, and personal interests and are only a sampling of the neat hydrogeology, geomorphology, and climate science research that has been recently published.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 9:31 AM • 2 Comments •
casaubon's book 02.13.2012
denialism blog 02.13.2012
respectful insolence 02.13.2012
evolutionblog 02.12.2012
starts with a bang! 02.11.2012
