Yearly Archives: 2008

Uniformitarianism in action (sort of)

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Chris Rowan

Most of you correctly identified the sedimentary structures in Friday’s mystery photo: two sets of ripple marks can be seen on the left, and a lower bed on the right has what look like dessication/mud cracks, formed by the drying … Continue reading →

Categories: deep time, geopuzzling, outcrops

The balancing act

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Chris Rowan

It was nice to get away over the Easter weekend – I went with some friends down to St. Lucia, on the east coast of South Africa north of Durban. I’m not generally the sort of person who gets much … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life

Geopuzzle #9

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Chris Rowan

After a bit of a hiatus, I return to the geopuzzling fray with this photo: Your task is easy enough: interpret the features in the image above. Update: Answer here.

Categories: geopuzzling

Seismology@home

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Chris Rowan

There’s an interesting news story in Nature* about a distributed computing project with a seismological twist. The proposed aim of the Quake-Catcher project is to hack and collate data from laptop accelerometers – designed to protect the hard drive when … Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology, geophysics, public science

Now showing in the geoblogosphere

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Chris Rowan

If you haven’t already checked it out, the latest Accretionary Wedge went up while I was away, stacked full of entertaining musings from your favorite geobloggers about the role of geology, and geologists, in the entertainment industry. Or, as our … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery, public science