Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Earth’s magnetic field: still not reversing

Birds falling from the sky? Airport runways realigning? 2012 approaching? Only one of these things is at all to do with magnetic field behaviour, and even that is nothing to worry about. Continue reading

Categories: antiscience, palaeomagic

New at Earth Science Erratics: Meteorites and Geology

We’re pleased to introduce the first Earth Science Erratics blogger: Simon Wellings, also known as Metageologist. In his first post, he discusses the geological record of meteorite impacts: One of the few advantages of having being on the Earth for … Continue reading

Categories: links, planets

An avalanche at the museum

At the Chicago Museum of Science & Technology, make your own debris flows with the hypnotic Avalanche Disk. Continue reading

Categories: geohazards, geology, geophysics, public science, science education

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Now the holidays are over, it’s back to your regularly scheduled link-fest. Continue reading

Categories: links

Ten million feet upon the stair

During my time in Edinburgh, I lived in an apartment in a nice old tenement building: several floors of individual flats, all connected by an internal communal staircase. The building is at least a century old, and because this was … Continue reading

Categories: deep time, environment, geomorphology