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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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The two isolated mountains in Crowders Mountain State Park (NC) have withstood 500 million years of erosion, will they survive a gray and drizzly day with a hydrologist?
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 8:09 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: geology
This image, just released from NASA's Earth Observatory, is both scary and beautiful This is - or was - the Aral Sea*. 50 years ago, it was a substantial body of water. Then, the rivers that fed it were diverted...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:16 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: fieldwork
More photos and commentary from my field trip to Oman
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:22 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: fieldwork
More pretty photos from my Oman trip
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:48 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: outcrops
I've just returned from a few days visiting a friend in Northern Ireland. Whilst I was there, she very kindly drove me out to the north coast to visit the Giant's Causeway (whilst getting considerable comic mileage out of accusations...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:14 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: photos
I took advantage of the fact I live in Scotland: Creag Leacach, 987 m....
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:10 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: bloggery
What have I seen on the geology 'must see' list?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:32 PM • 25 Comments •
Category: geology
Very messy geologically, very pretty photographically - and studied by Charles Darwin.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:28 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: fieldwork
Granites, sandstones and angular uncomformities
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:22 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: geology
Geologically at least, Cape Town does have a European vibe after all.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:59 AM • 7 Comments •
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