Category Archives: fieldwork

Electronic field notebooks: useful, or pain in the posterior?

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Chris Rowan

The UJ mapping class this year were piloting electronic field notebooks, with each group being given a PDA in which they could enter a locality, a description, and any structural data they were measuring. Especially with the structual data, this … Continue reading →

Categories: field gear, fieldwork, gifts and gadgets

Are jeans sensible fieldwear?

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Chris Rowan

One thing I noticed amongst the students on last week’s trip was that a fairly sizeable proportion of them were regularly wearing jeans in the field. You are unlikely to see British third year geology students opting for denim in … Continue reading →

Categories: field gear, fieldwork

How to stop worrying and love your mapping project

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Chris Rowan

Some tips for effective field mapping
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Categories: basics, fieldwork, geology

What’s up with those Archean sandstones?

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Chris Rowan

In addition to searching out evidence for Archean microbial mats, my revisitation of the Pongola sandstones gave me the chance to look a bit more closely at their lithology. When I last posted pictures from this sequence, there was a … Continue reading →

Categories: Archean, fieldwork, geology, geopuzzling, past worlds