Category Archives: fieldwork

Geopuzzle #3

Can you identify my latest fieldwork trophy?
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Categories: fieldwork, geology

The Palaeomagician’s bane

Why lightning may be my new mortal enemy
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Categories: fieldwork, geophysics, in the lab

Palaeomagnetism: from drilling to publication

How the measurements I make in the lab are distilled into the results reported in a typical scientific paper.
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Categories: basics, fieldwork, in the lab, palaeomagic

What is a greenstone belt?

The Barberton greenstone belt – one of the oldest bits of crust on the planet
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Categories: Archean, fieldwork, geology, past worlds

Namibia: the stromatolites’ last hurrah

Some of the more massive limestone beds in the Nama group are chock full of stromatolites, the remnants of sizeable Precambrian algal reefs. Technically, stromatolites are not true fossils, because the mineralised layers are not directly precipitated by the photosynthetic … Continue reading

Categories: fieldwork, fossils, geology, outcrops, past worlds, photos, Proterozoic