Tag Archives: plate tectonics

Marie Tharp’s Adventures in Mapping the Seafloor, In Her Own Words

Posted on July 25, 2020 by Chris Rowan

Establishing the rift valley and the mid-ocean ridge that went all the way around the world for 40,000 miles…You can’t find anything bigger than that, at least on this planet. Lots of cool science history in this first-person account, but also … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, history of science, tectonics

Can we detect plate tectonics on exoplanets?

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Chris Rowan

As celebrated in this Ars Technica piece, the 2010s was ‘the decade of the exoplanet’. Largely thanks to the Kepler telescope, the past ten years has seen an explosion in exoplanet discoveries. More than 4000 planets have now been identified orbiting other stars, … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, planets, tectonics, volcanoes

Scenic Saturday: our stripy oceans, explained 50 years ago today!

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Chris Rowan

A slightly different Scenic Saturday this weekend, as we celebrate an important milestone in geological science: a look at the South Pacific through a geophysical lens. The colours on this map show fluctuations in the Earth’s magnetic field produced by … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, palaeomagic, tectonics

Expanding Earth “Philosophy”: Fail

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Chris Rowan

Or should that be FAIL?
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Categories: antiscience, general science, geology, tectonics