Category Archives: fieldwork

Capetonian Geology: the Seapoint contact

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Chris Rowan

Very messy geologically, very pretty photographically – and studied by Charles Darwin.
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Categories: fieldwork, geology, outcrops, photos, volcanoes

More Capetonian geology

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Chris Rowan

Granites, sandstones and angular uncomformities
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Categories: fieldwork, geology, outcrops, photos

2700 million years in one outcrop

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Chris Rowan

Now this is what I call continental stablity…
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Categories: deep time, fieldwork, geology

When bears attack

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Chris Rowan

We’ve discussed before how geologists’ pursuit of the critical outcrop sometimes puts us in somewhat sticky situations, but in this story, rather scarily, its not so much a case of geologists ambling into danger as danger ambling towards them. At … Continue reading →

Categories: fieldwork, geohazards

Back

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Chris Rowan

So, I’m back in Johannesburg, after a very interesting trip which took us all the way from Archean congolomerates in the stable continental interior to diamond-bearing Tertiary alluvial gravels on the West Coast. Plenty of stuff to talk about, then … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery, fieldwork