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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: 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?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:40 AM • 20 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: geology
On the 11th day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:15 PM • 1 Comments •
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 • 9 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 • 20 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 • 14 Comments •
Category: tectonics
I have one word for expanding-earthers: Avalonia.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:05 AM • 60 Comments •
Category: public science
An informal poll - please respond.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:48 AM • 70 Comments •
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