Monthly Archives: October 2007

The Indian plate’s days as a Cretaceous boy-racer

Does the thickness of a tectonic plate control its speed?
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Categories: geology, geophysics, Mesozoic, paper reviews, tectonics

Knees up, Mother Earth

How could I forget the Earth’s birthday? For a geologist, I’m fairly sure that’s an unforgivable sin. Of course, October the 23rd only has geochronological significance if you believe the biblical calculations of Archbishop Ussher (or possibly one of his … Continue reading

Categories: antiscience, bloggery

Kelud and Lusi

The latest from Lusi It seems that a certain mud volcano is situated less than a 100 km away from the grumbling Mount Kelud, and it is not responding well to the increased geological activity in the area: Separately, a … Continue reading

Categories: geohazards, geology, Lusi, volcanoes

A match too far

Even if I hadn’t been watching on TV, the cheers and hooting which rose into the Jo’burg night from around 10:45 pm on Saturday would have informed me that the result of the Rugby World Cup final was far more … Continue reading

Categories: rugby

The Jabal al-Tair eruption in close-up

I seem to be having a fairly volcanic week, so whilst we’re on the subject of volcanoes in the news, someone over at Nasa’s Earth Observatory got a satellite to snap Jabal al-Tair in the Red Sea, which erupted at … Continue reading

Categories: volcanoes