Category Archives: geophysics

Bumpy ice: proof of a Martian water cycle?

Some interesting data from Mars Odyssey about the distribution of sub-surface ice on Mars were published in Nature last week by Joshua Bandfield at Arizona State University (see also here and here). Mars Odyssey had already detected the presence of … Continue reading

Categories: geophysics, paper reviews, planets

Know thy co-ordinate system

Even the best measurements are meaningless if you muck up your corrections
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Categories: geology, geophysics

Geological Basics: the art of Paleomagic

If I’m ever going to talk about my own research in any detail, I’m first going to have to explain a little (or a lot) about the field I fell into almost by accident, paleomagnetism. Literally ‘ancient magnetism’, paleomagnetism is … Continue reading

Categories: basics, geology, geophysics, palaeomagic

Rebellious mantle refuses to tie itself to ridge axis

The new geophysics results from the spreading ridge on the East Pacific Rise, just published by Toomey et al., have already been mentioned on Deep Sea News: as guest poster Kevin Zelnio discusses, this new mapping of where the mantle … Continue reading

Categories: geophysics, paper reviews, tectonics

The dampness within

So much for a honeymoon period; no sooner do I arrive at Scienceblogs than commentators start making demands. Fortunately, the story I’ve been ordered to write about was already in my ‘of interest’ pile, so in this instance it’s not … Continue reading

Categories: geology, geophysics