Category Archives: geology

An avalanche at the museum

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Chris Rowan

At the Chicago Museum of Science & Technology, make your own debris flows with the hypnotic Avalanche Disk. Continue reading →

Categories: geohazards, geology, geophysics, public science, science education

The 12 geological days of Christmas: a reprise

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Chris Rowan

Merry Christmas, everyone! I’m having a rather strange Christmas this year – most of my unwrapping this year has been of the flat-pack furniture variety, as my new flat in Chicago slowly starts to look a little less minimalist. Whilst … Continue reading →

Categories: geology

The flat of the land

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Chris Rowan

Just as there are many ways that a landscape can end up being pointy, there are several ways that it can end up being flat. Continue reading →

Categories: geology, geomorphology

All quiet on the Alpine Fault?

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Chris Rowan

The Alpine fault has not ruptured since European settlement in the 1840s. Paleoseismology tells us that this is the longest it has gone in a millenium without generating a magnitude 8+ earthquake. Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology, geomorphology, tectonics