Author Archives: Chris Rowan

4 weekends in Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Chris Rowan

We may have been a bit remiss in sharing it with the Internet, but we’ve been enjoying our weekends here in Ohio, as late summer has faded into autumn (or Fall, which even Chris admits is a nicely evocative name). … Continue reading →

Categories: photos, ranting

Talking ANDRILL

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Chris Rowan

The Antarctic Geological Drilling Project – ANDRILL – is an ambitious program of drilling down to the sediments deposited around Antarctica in the past few tens of millions of years, to unravel the history of the Antarctic ice sheets: how … Continue reading →

Categories: Cenozoic, climate science, past worlds

What the kids are interested in these days

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Chris Rowan

One of the courses I teach at Kent is an introductory geology course called ‘Earth Dynamics’. In my first lecture of term last week, I gave my new class a brief survey to get an idea of their previous exposure … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, teaching

Scenic Saturday: our stripy oceans, explained 50 years ago today!

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Chris Rowan

A slightly different Scenic Saturday this weekend, as we celebrate an important milestone in geological science: a look at the South Pacific through a geophysical lens. The colours on this map show fluctuations in the Earth’s magnetic field produced by … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, palaeomagic, tectonics

Scenic Saturday: a ravishing roadcut

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Chris Rowan

In the coming semester, I’m teaching a Tectonics and Orogeny course, which will include a field trip to the Appalachians to check out the closest accessible example of tectonics and orogeny look like up close. A successful field trip comes … Continue reading →

Categories: outcrops