Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Where on Earth was Chris?

My regular readers are probably quite used to my occasional bouts of silence on this blog, but my low internet profile in the past fortnight has been for the quite justifiable reason that I was away on holiday. I had … Continue reading

Categories: outcrops, photos

Accretionary Wedge #25: An Illustrated Glossary of Cool Geological Things

A smorgasboard of earth science imagery, in visual dictionary form.
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Categories: geology, photos

Lava lake tectonics

In the crater of Erte Ale, we can see processes that take tens of miliions of years on a global scale happening in just a few hours.
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Categories: geology, tectonics, volcanoes

Top Kill: what BP is trying to do

How injecting drilling mud can hopefully stem the well leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Categories: environment, geohazards, geology

Macro rock photography with the iPhone

and a little help from a hand lens…
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Categories: fieldwork, gifts and gadgets