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You're not missing much 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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A girl, a pack, a forest, a river 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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How do we know Gabon's 'multicellular' fossils are 2.1 billion years old?

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...

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Oman's view of the Snowball Earth

Category: deep time

Evidence from my field area of extreme climatic fluctuations 700 million years ago - but does it support the notion that the whole planet froze over?

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Earth's forgotten youth - and beyond

Category: deep time

A new attempt to map out the events of early earth history.

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Neoproterozoic signs of life

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.

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11 terranes amalgamating

Category: geology

On the 11th day of Christmas my true love sent to me...

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The amazing disappearing asymmetric magnetic reversals

Category: geology

Weird field behaviour in the Neoproterozoic vanishes when you add more data to the mix.

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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?

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The Lake Missoula megafloods

Category: outcrops

the massive floods that shaped the topography, soils, and agriculture of the Pacific Northwest.

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Supercontinent cycles 3, Expanding Earth 0

Category: tectonics

I have one word for expanding-earthers: Avalonia.

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What do you know about the Snowball Earth?

Category: public science

An informal poll - please respond.

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