Category Archives: geology

Layer cake stratigraphy

Geonerdy t-shirtiness. I want.
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Categories: bloggery, geology

Into the Bushveld #1: holy hunks of magnetite!

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

A further clue to the mystery deskcrop

Some of you are on the right sort of track to the answer to Friday’s geopuzzle, but I think that I can clear up the uncertainties considerably by demonstrating exactly why this particular rock is staying well away from my … Continue reading

Categories: geology

Geopuzzle #3

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

Do we need a new geological epoch?

Anthropocene! Naming a new geological time period after ourselves certainly has a nice dramatic ring to it, even if it smacks of the hubris that got us into our current climatic mess in the first place. But can our species, … Continue reading

Categories: basics, deep time, geology, paper reviews