Category Archives: fieldwork

Death Valley Dispatches

If you’re bored with the recent metabloggery here (don’t worry, I’m done, and with ‘nary a mention of the F-word), you could do much worse than to head over to The Dynamic Earth, where Eric has been posting an excellent … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery, fieldwork, geology, links

Fieldwork Album

Scenic and action shots from my sampling trip.
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Categories: fieldwork, outcrops, photos

Geologists in peril – and liking it?

After linking to some spectacular photos taken from right in the path of an avalanche, and a jealousy-inducing photo of himself standing right next to an oozing lava flow, Geotripper asks if geologists have a death wish: I considered what … Continue reading

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Into the Bushveld #2: ‘Look at the size of that thing!’

The world’s biggest igneous intrusion is very large indeed…
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Categories: fieldwork, geology, volcanoes

Into the Bushveld #1: holy hunks of magnetite!

Igneous rocks – “sedimentary” processes?
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Categories: fieldwork, geology, volcanoes