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Author Archives: Chris Rowan
Diversity (or lack thereof) in geoscience: are we hyping up the wrong things?
Via Dr Sarah Greene, some data from a survey of student attitudes to STEM careers, including geosciences, at a college in the SW US indicates that they care more about whether their career can help people or the environment than the … Continue reading
Why do we get earthquakes a long way from plate boundaries?
There’s already a lot of good info out there about this week’s magnitude 5.9 earthquake near Melbourne, Australia. I wanted to dig a little more into the broader reasons you can get earthquakes like this in places you might not … Continue reading
The unthanked shoulders we stand on
Via Liz Hide on Twitter, a thought-provoking acknowledgement of the important role the in discovering and excavating the paleontological treasures in many museums’ collections. On a similar theme, I think of the story of Alfred Wegener and continental drift. The … Continue reading
Why did North Carolina experience a magnitude 5.1 earthquake yesterday?
The location of this earthquake seems a little odd because North Carolina is about as far as it’s possible to get from an active plate boundary – thousands of km from the mid-Atlantic spreading ridge to the east and the … Continue reading
Marie Tharp’s Adventures in Mapping the Seafloor, In Her Own Words
Establishing the rift valley and the mid-ocean ridge that went all the way around the world for 40,000 miles…You can’t find anything bigger than that, at least on this planet. Lots of cool science history in this first-person account, but also … Continue reading
Nice plan for content warnings on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Now you need a Mastodon/Fediverse button on this blog.