Category Archives: geology

Peru’s new crater extra-terrestrial, but illness not

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Chris Rowan

One of the main risks of our media-saturated world is that although events can make it onto our TV and computer screens with unrivaled speed, this does not necessarily mean we have any idea of what’s actually going on, which … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, planets, public science

19th century geologists slandered again

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Chris Rowan

Are folks at the University of Bristol intentionally trying to annoy me? In the very same week that I write about the abundant signs of old age in the rock record, they put out a press release which states: By … Continue reading →

Categories: deep time, geology, public science

Geobloggers reveal their shameful secret

Posted on September 3, 2007 by Chris Rowan

The inaugural edition of the geoscience blog carnival The Accretionary Wedge over at Clastic Detritus reveals that It’s not just me – it seems.that we’re all refugees from other sciences. Of course, our late conversions seem to have only increased … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, links

Bacteria and black smokers go back a long way

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Chris Rowan

I tempered the other week’s repost on some rather impressive 1.5 billion year-old black smoker chimneys, and the fossilised microbes found within them, with some words of caution about the ‘clues to the origin of life’ spin that the discovery … Continue reading →

Categories: fossils, geology, paper reviews, Proterozoic