Author Archives: Chris Rowan

A ton of 2+ year-old AGU journal articles are now open access!

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Chris Rowan

All you have to do is wait two years after publication… Continue reading →

Categories: geology, public science, publication

Reconstructing ocean spreading when half your record is now in the mantle (or: a plug for my new paper)

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Chris Rowan

If you’re studying the last 100 million years or so of plate tectonics, the history of sea-floor spreading recorded by the magnetic stripes that parallel and extend away from the Earth’s ocean ridges is a key source of information. Each … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, geophysics, palaeomagic, tectonics

Antarctica field log: Penguin Island? Surely you mean Volcano Island!

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Chris Rowan

But yes, there were penguins too. Continue reading →

Categories: Antarctica, outcrops, photos, tectonics, volcanoes

A real-life geological map, no colouring in required

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Chris Rowan

There’s much more to geological mapping than colouring in, but a big part of the process of reconstructing the geological history of an area is spending a lot of time examining the exposed rocks to work out how to distinguish … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, structures

Puerto Rico sends the Caribbean a sobering seismic anniversary present

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Chris Rowan

Four years ago on Sunday, Haiti, and particularly its capital, Port-au-Prince, was devastated by a shallow magnitude 7.0 earthquake, which killed many tens, and possibly hundreds of thousands of people*, and left more than a million people homeless. Even today, … Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, geohazards, society