Pangaea Day, geology-style
Category: geology
A brief geographic trip into the late Triassic.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:49 AM • 0 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: tectonics
Does the thickness of a tectonic plate control its speed?
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