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		<title>How I (mostly) slept through the one of the largest earthquakes to hit NW Europe in 200 years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the early hours of 13 April 1992, the border region in western Europe where Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands meet was shaken by a magnitude 5.4 earthquake, caused by northeast-southwest extension in the Roer Valley Graben. The shaking was &#8230; <a href="http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2012/01/how-i-mostly-slept-through-the-largest-european-earthquake-in-200-years/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first Highly Allochthonous Sunday link-fest of 2012. We realise that technically this is the second Sunday of the new year, but we trust that you&#8217;ll forgive us&#8230; Other posts on All-geo Metageologist discusses How stone walls reflect &#8230; <a href="http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2012/01/stuff-we-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-39/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How useful are lectures, really?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been an interesting discussion amongst the geologists on Twitter, that I&#8217;ve archived over on Geotweeps Discuss&#8230;, over the role of the lecture in undergraduate education. This was in response to an NPR story claiming that in physics at &#8230; <a href="http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2012/01/how-useful-are-lectures-really/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Geological mayhem and destruction in 2012: not the end of the world, just business as usual</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We don't live on a boring planet. 2012 will be plagued by natural disasters, but so is every other year.  <a href="http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2012/01/geological-mayhem-and-destruction-in-2012-not-the-end-of-the-world-just-business-as-usual/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scenic Saturday: Year End Reflections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last day of the year saw me doing field work in my very favorite spot in North Carolina, a short drive from Charlotte which takes me to a place that feels worlds away. I was collecting the final dataset &#8230; <a href="http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2011/12/scenic-saturday-year-end-reflections/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Highly Allochthonous travels in 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As 2011 draws to a close, &#8217;tis the season for retrospectives, and we&#8217;re surprised that no-one this year seems to have started up the travel meme that has been so popular in the geoblogosphere in the past. After all, it &#8230; <a href="http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2011/12/our-highly-allochthonous-travels-in-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Two more earthquakes shake Christchurch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as it seemed that seismic activity was finally dying down in Christchurch, the city has been shaken by two more earthquakes. The USGS currently has the first shock pegged as a magnitude 5.8, and the second as a magnitude &#8230; <a href="http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2011/12/two-more-earthquakes-shake-christchurch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good crop of links for your Sunday reading pleasure this week &#8211; and some new geoblogs to check out, too. Other posts on All-geo Geology word of the week has to be &#8216;geospeedometry&#8217;: Metageologist asks, how fast do metamorphic &#8230; <a href="http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2011/12/stuff-we-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-38/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scenic Saturday: Mammoth Cave, where surface water and groundwater meet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that wonderful time of year, as one semester finally gives up the fight and a new one waits in the shadows, pouncing on unsuspecting students and faculty just as they breathe a sigh of that they&#8217;ve won the first &#8230; <a href="http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2011/12/scenic-saturday-mammoth-cave-where-surface-water-and-groundwater-meet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Friday(ish) Focal Mechanism: a kinky slab beneath Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick look this week at the magnitude 6.5 earthquake that shook southern Mexico last Sunday. It caused a fair amount of shaking in Mexico City, and a few deaths, but apparently no major structural damage. The depth of the &#8230; <a href="http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2011/12/fridayish-focal-mechanism-a-kinky-slab-beneath-mexico/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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