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Rocks on the airwaves

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Chris Rowan

The geopuns just keep coming – the inaugural geology ‘podclast’ has just gone up over at goodSchist. Your hosts Chris Town and Ron Schott discuss the recent volcanic activity on Kilauea, the latest bout of navel gazing stirred up by … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery, links

I’ll be back soon…

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Chris Rowan

Sorry for the lack of activity this week – my mental energies have been fully engaged by events in the Real World over the past few days, and as a consequence I haven’t managed to focus well enough to write … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery

Peperite: a basaltic sneeze into wet sediments

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Chris Rowan

The outcrop that I gave you to ponder on Friday is pretty strange, but I can assure you that this isn’t a wall: Most of you correctly guessed that the dark fragments are composed of a mafic (basalt-esque) igneous rock, … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, geopuzzling, volcanoes

Death Valley Dispatches

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Chris Rowan

If you’re bored with the recent metabloggery here (don’t worry, I’m done, and with ‘nary a mention of the F-word), you could do much worse than to head over to The Dynamic Earth, where Eric has been posting an excellent … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery, fieldwork, geology, links