Category Archives: palaeomagic

Is the Earth’s magnetic field about to flip?

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Chris Rowan

No-one knows – but I wouldn’t hold your breath
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Categories: basics, geology, geophysics, palaeomagic, paper reviews

Where the Earth’s magnetic field comes from

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Chris Rowan

How modelling the Geodynamo is both hard – and strangely easy…
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Categories: basics, geology, geophysics, palaeomagic, paper reviews

Palaeomagnetism: from drilling to publication

Posted on October 9, 2007 by Chris Rowan

How the measurements I make in the lab are distilled into the results reported in a typical scientific paper.
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Categories: basics, fieldwork, in the lab, palaeomagic

A paradigm nudge in paleontology

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Chris Rowan

Apparently, if a handful of dinosaurs survive the KT extinction it ceases to be important.
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Categories: fossils, geology, palaeomagic

Geological Basics: the art of Paleomagic

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Chris Rowan

If I’m ever going to talk about my own research in any detail, I’m first going to have to explain a little (or a lot) about the field I fell into almost by accident, paleomagnetism. Literally ‘ancient magnetism’, paleomagnetism is … Continue reading →

Categories: basics, geology, geophysics, palaeomagic