Category Archives: tectonics

Geology: the (almost) musical

Whilst reading through the song–related submissions to the current, geo-arty edition of the Accretionary Wedge, my mind was cast back to my dim and distant undergrad days, when no field trip was complete without sem-drunken final evening entertainments, and the … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery, geology, tectonics

The slow death of a sedimentary basin

Time catches up with us all – even rocks…
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Categories: deep time, geology, tectonics

Earthquake in Iceland

In which we fail to falsify plate tectonics
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Categories: earthquakes, geology, tectonics

What plate tectonics doesn’t tell you

How the past may be the key to the tectonic present
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Categories: geology, tectonics

New Zealand gets a festive shaking

When I was out in New Zealand doing fieldwork for my PhD, I spent most of my time based in Gisborne, a sleepy little town on the east coast of the North Island. Over Christmas, it seems that Gisborne was … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology, tectonics