Author Archives: Chris Rowan

I’ll be back soon…

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

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

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

A few more thoughts on the position and the responsibilities of science bloggers

Is my blogging undermining my scientific credibility
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Categories: bloggery, public science

Geopuzzle #10

What’s all this, then? Update: Click through for the answer.

Categories: geopuzzling