Author Archives: Chris Rowan

New at Erratics: What’s up with Cu?

Our goal in starting Earth Science Erratics was to promote and encourage new voices to take there first steps into the geoblogosphere. But we also want to make sure that people who have taken those first steps already, but have … Continue reading

Categories: geology, links

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Blogs in motion The Scienceseeker Geosciences category is now nicely populated with many more geoblogs, but it turns out the list I submitted is already out of date, as a couple more blogs have already popped into existence: Extremo-files, from … Continue reading

Categories: links

New at Erratics: Bubbling up

Your friendly Highly Allochthonous bloggers have already treated you to unconformicakes and edible debris flows today; now, if you head over to Earth Science Erratics, new contributors Kathy Cashman and Alison Rust present a fascinating discussion of the role of … Continue reading

Categories: links, volcanoes

The baking of an angular unconformity: Hutton’s Unconformicake

One of the most famous sites in the history of geology – in cake form!. Chris’s entry for Accretionary Wedge #30: the bake sale Continue reading

Categories: bloggery, structures

The making of an angular unconformity: Hutton’s unconformity at Siccar Point

Photos and video from a geo-pilgrimage: an in-depth look at Hutton’s Unconformity, and the geological history that it represents. Continue reading

Categories: deep time, geology, outcrops, Palaeozoic, photos, structures