Category Archives: geophysics

Martian plate tectonics

Are striped magnetic anomalies on the Red Planet evidence of ancient sea-floor spreading?
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Categories: geology, geophysics, planets, tectonics

The Palaeomagician’s bane

Why lightning may be my new mortal enemy
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Categories: fieldwork, geophysics, in the lab

A map of wonderful magnetic things

A new magnetic anomaly map illustrates the differences between oceanic and continental crust
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Categories: geology, geophysics

The Indian plate’s days as a Cretaceous boy-racer

Does the thickness of a tectonic plate control its speed?
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Categories: geology, geophysics, Mesozoic, paper reviews, tectonics

Nuclear Seismology

From ye olde blog, November 2006: A barely remembered anecdote, the buzz about the North Korean “nuclear” test, and a Web of Knowledge search combined to bring this paper up on my screen: Seismic tomographic inversion of Russian PNE data … Continue reading

Categories: geology, geophysics, paper reviews