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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
Give yourselves a pat on the back: virtually everyone guessed correctly that my fortnight away was chiefly spent exploring Yellowstone National Park, bookended by some time in Grand Teton National Park just next door. The first photo I showed...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:45 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: outcrops
My regular readers are probably quite used to my occasional bouts of silence on this blog, but my low internet profile in the past fortnight has been for the quite justifiable reason that I was away on holiday. I...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:17 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: geology
A smorgasboard of earth science imagery, in visual dictionary form.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:15 AM • 24 Comments •
Category: by Anne
Warm heavy rainfall + glaciers + steep mountain flanks + exposed unconsolidated sediments are a recipe for debris flows in the Cascades Range. Let me tell you the story of one.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 7:48 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: photos
It may have grounded much of Europe's air traffic, but at least Eyjafjallajoekull's eruption has a pleasing aesthetic effect on the atmosphere.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:25 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: outcrops
Beautiful Scottish geological structures I happened across on my weekend walk.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:00 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: by Anne
Spectacular fossilized forests in the Canadian High Arctic provide clues to life on a warmer earth. Unless we mine their coal in order to heat our planet back to the Eocene.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 1:26 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: photos
It's been a bit quiet around these parts since I posted on the Haiti earthquake. Those of you following me on Twitter know that at that point I was actually spending a few days exploring New York: its parks,...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:35 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: by Anne
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 •
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