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Category Archives: deep time
The making of an angular unconformity: Hutton’s unconformity at Siccar Point
Photos and video from a geo-pilgrimage: an in-depth look at Hutton’s Unconformity, and the geological history that it represents. Continue reading
Ten million feet upon the stair
During my time in Edinburgh, I lived in an apartment in a nice old tenement building: several floors of individual flats, all connected by an internal communal staircase. The building is at least a century old, and because this was … Continue reading
Book Review: Written in Stone by Brian Switek
Palaeoblogger extraordinaire Brian Switek has often expressed frustration at the fact that many recent popularisers of evolution have a habit of downplaying the importance of the fossil record in studies of evolution. However, when reading the opening chapters of Written … Continue reading
Glacial deposits new and old in the Scottish isles
Islay – one of the birthplaces of the Snowball Earth. And good whisky. Continue reading
Old tectonic scars run deep: the magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Ontario
The location of yesterday’s earthquake in Canada was controlled by tectonic processes that operated, and ceased, hundreds of millions of years ago.
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A very British paradigm shift
My admiration for the intellectual integrity of Arthur Holmes, and his patient advocacy of continental drift.
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Oman’s view of the Snowball Earth
Evidence from my field area of extreme climatic fluctuations 700 million years ago – but does it support the notion that the whole planet froze over?
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Earth’s forgotten youth – and beyond
A new attempt to map out the events of early earth history.
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Darwin, Deep Time and Evolution
A geological perspective was necessary to see the true power of natural selection.
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The rightful place of science: putting us in ours
Science doesn’t need to be placed anywhere, it just needs us to listen to what it tells us.
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