The amazing disappearing asymmetric magnetic reversals
Category: geology
Weird field behaviour in the Neoproterozoic vanishes when you add more data to the mix.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:00 PM • 7 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.
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Category: geology
Weird field behaviour in the Neoproterozoic vanishes when you add more data to the mix.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:00 PM • 7 Comments •
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: outcrops
the massive floods that shaped the topography, soils, and agriculture of the Pacific Northwest.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:50 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: tectonics
I have one word for expanding-earthers: Avalonia.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:05 AM • 55 Comments •
Category: public science
An informal poll - please respond.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:48 AM • 70 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: geopuzzling
The answer? I dunno...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:33 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: geology
A brief geographic trip into the late Triassic.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:49 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: geology
In addition to searching out evidence for Archean microbial mats, my revisitation of the Pongola sandstones gave me the chance to look a bit more closely at their lithology. When I last posted pictures from this sequence, there was a...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:34 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: geology
Geovandalism rears it's ugly head once more.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:25 AM • 5 Comments •