Category Archives: Cenozoic

Talking ANDRILL

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Chris Rowan

The Antarctic Geological Drilling Project – ANDRILL – is an ambitious program of drilling down to the sediments deposited around Antarctica in the past few tens of millions of years, to unravel the history of the Antarctic ice sheets: how … Continue reading →

Categories: Cenozoic, climate science, past worlds

Does plate tectonics control magnetic reversals?

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Chris Rowan

Possibly, but this paper will not convince you. Continue reading →

Categories: Cenozoic, geophysics, Mesozoic, palaeomagic, tectonics

Oregon’s fossil forests

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

Today is National Fossil Day, and half way through Earth Science Week. In honor of the occasion, I present a few notes and photos from a trip I took with my botanist mother to the John Day Fossil Beds in … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, Cenozoic, fossils, outcrops

Coal and the fossil record of climate change in the Canadian High Arctic

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

Spectacular fossilized forests in the Canadian High Arctic provide clues to life on a warmer earth. Unless we mine their coal in order to heat our planet back to the Eocene.
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