Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes

How do you know your if friendly neighbourhood volcano is dead, or merely dozing?
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Categories: basics, geohazards, geology, volcanoes

What’s up with those Archean sandstones?

In addition to searching out evidence for Archean microbial mats, my revisitation of the Pongola sandstones gave me the chance to look a bit more closely at their lithology. When I last posted pictures from this sequence, there was a … Continue reading

Categories: Archean, fieldwork, geology, geopuzzling, past worlds

Archean bacterial mats under the hammer

Geovandalism rears it’s ugly head once more.
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Categories: Archean, fieldwork, fossils, geology, paper reviews, past worlds, ranting

Publication tag clouds

Brian’s had the cool idea of summarising some of his pending scientific papers using tag clouds, and I’m joining Lab Lemming, ReBecca and Maria in jumping on the bandwagon. The following two clouds, which may or may not provide some … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, publication

Sabbatical

I’m off into the field again for a week. Since the geoblogging around here has been fairly light of late, you might not even miss me. Hopefully, a bit of fieldwork is just what I need to get me out … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery