Hello everyone, and welcome to the new home of ‘Highly Allochthonous’!
As regular readers already know, I’ve just completed a physical move to the southern hemisphere; but it some ways my electronic relocation, courtesy of the nice people here at Scienceblogs, seems even more unreal. I’ve occasionally commented here (and elsewhere) under the name ‘gengar’ – which has resulted in my old blog currently holding steady at #9 on the Google search for a Pokemon name – but I never imagined that I’d end up posting in such distinguished company.
As it says on the sidebar, I’m a geologist. I’m principally interested in how the earth deforms in response to the motions of tectonic plates, but I write about pretty much anything geological that piques my interest (the categories on my old front page should give you the gist). I also occasionally rant about the trials and tribulations of trying to establish an academic career; and, because you can’t seem to help it nowadays, I keep an eye on the strange people who think that I’m either foolishly deluded to accept the evidence for a 4.55 billion year-old earth, or that I spend my days fabricating that evidence to delude others.
In addition, because there are far more interesting geological subjects out there than I could possibly cover, I’ll also be pointing you in the direction of other good geobloggers as well – as my new sidebar testifies, there’s far more out there than when I first started a year and a half ago.
Let the fun begin…
Welcome to Science blogs. You kept this quiet, didn’t you?
Great to see you here at Science-Blogs ! And all the best for your new academic home.
Ahhh! You’ve been borged!
Welcome, etc etc etc. Now get right to it:
Huge ‘Ocean’ Discovered Inside Earth
HHmm, I’m beggining to recognise a lot of the names of posters I see on scienceblogs. I’m not sure if its all one happy family or a self referencing qlique.
Welcome to ScienceBlogs. I’m glad to see a geologist here. I’m strictly an amateur, but have greatly enjoyed reading about plate tectonics and its effects on world geography.
Welcome to Sb! And I’ll congratulations you on your move from NZ to Johannesburg – the last I remember from your blog, you were an unhappy scientist isolated in Kiwi land.
UK actually… my field area was in NZ. If I’d been isolated there I might have been a bit less unhappy!
Hi Chris,
Congratulations on the move (both to Johannesburg and to SB).
You’ve not changed the photo then? Your big chance to convince people that geologists don’t all wear anoraks and you had to go and blow it…
That’s about the only decent photo of me in existence which is less than five years old; normally I either look immensely sulky or on the verge of doing unspeakable things with a geological hammer.