Author Archives: Chris Rowan

AGU on the interweb

It’s been a somewhat frustrating week for this geoblogger, with many potentially interesting stories popping up containing some variant of “presented this week at AGU in San Francisco”. With 15,000+ Earth Scientists collected in the same place, it’s no surprise … Continue reading

Categories: geology, links

A deskcrop-full of komatiite

I have on my desk evidence for a hotter mantle 3 billion years ago. Nifty, eh?
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Categories: geology, volcanoes

Don’t put your faith in (no) sunspots

Reports of a Maunder-like minimum are somewhat premature
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Categories: climate science, planets

Terry Pratchett ‘not dead’, thank goodness

When I saw that one of my Facebook friend’s status was ‘very upset about Terry Pratchett’, my blood ran cold. Fortunately, I was wrong to fear the worst, but there’s still bad news: he’s been diagnosed with “a very rare … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery

Martian plate tectonics

Are striped magnetic anomalies on the Red Planet evidence of ancient sea-floor spreading?
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Categories: geology, geophysics, planets, tectonics