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Highly Allochthonous

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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, he is now a post-doc at the University of Johannesburg.

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This gallery features some of the many pretty and informative images that have graced the pages of Highly Allochthonous over the years. Click on the thumbnails to see the posts in which they originally featured.

Deskcrop of Archean komatiite imbricated boulders Pteridinium, an enigmatic Ediacaran fossil
allochthonous finally explained! Deskcrop of cumulus magnetite, Bushveld igneous complex Tidally influenced Archean cross-bedding in the Barberton greenstone belt
Namacalathus, and early calcified animal from the late Precambrian compositional layering in the Earth greigite, a magnetic iron sulphide
pothole carved from limestone by a current eddy Precambrian black smoker vent from China remanent magnetisations and overprints explained
The real kryptonite. Sort of Proposed chevron deposits resulting from an impact-induced megatsunami Archean pillow lavas from the Barberton greenstone belt

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