Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Drilling for oil is more risky than it used to be

Our unabated demand for oil is driving drilling in places where accidents of this sort – major, hard to stem leaks – are going to be a major risk.
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Categories: environment, geohazards

Stuff I linked to on Twitter last week

The interesting bits of my Twitter stream for the last week
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Categories: links

A very British paradigm shift

My admiration for the intellectual integrity of Arthur Holmes, and his patient advocacy of continental drift.
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Categories: deep time, geology

A uniformitarian approach to Earth day

I’m sure recycling prose is good for the environment somehow.
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Categories: environment, links, ranting

The seismic non-pocalypse

Why seismically, 2010 is not as out of the ordinary as some people think – and why the question is actually the wrong one to be asking anyway.
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology