Category Archives: paper reviews

Where the Earth’s magnetic field comes from

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Chris Rowan

How modelling the Geodynamo is both hard – and strangely easy…
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Categories: basics, geology, geophysics, palaeomagic, paper reviews

Do we need a new geological epoch?

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Chris Rowan

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

The Black Sea ‘flood’ and the rise of European agriculture

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Chris Rowan

It’s nothing to do with Noah.
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Categories: general science, paper reviews

How the air we breathe became breathable

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Chris Rowan

What geology tells us about the evolution of the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Categories: Archean, geochemistry, geology, paper reviews, past worlds, Proterozoic

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

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Chris Rowan

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