Category Archives: photos

A volcanic sunset over Edinburgh

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Chris Rowan

It may have grounded much of Europe’s air traffic, but at least Eyjafjallajoekull’s eruption has a pleasing aesthetic effect on the atmosphere.
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Categories: photos, volcanoes

More folds a-plunging

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Chris Rowan

Beautiful Scottish geological structures I happened across on my weekend walk.
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Categories: outcrops, photos, structures, tectonics

Coal and the fossil record of climate change in the Canadian High Arctic

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

Spectacular fossilized forests in the Canadian High Arctic provide clues to life on a warmer earth. Unless we mine their coal in order to heat our planet back to the Eocene.
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Categories: by Anne, Cenozoic, climate science, environment, fossils, photos

Where I’ve been

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Chris Rowan

It’s been a bit quiet around these parts since I posted on the Haiti earthquake. Those of you following me on Twitter know that at that point I was actually spending a few days exploring New York: its parks, its … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery, conferences, outcrops, photos

Water in the sky, rocks underfoot, and a little stream to carry it all

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Anne Jefferson

The two isolated mountains in Crowders Mountain State Park (NC) have withstood 500 million years of erosion, will they survive a gray and drizzly day with a hydrologist?
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Categories: by Anne, outcrops, photos