Category Archives: volcanoes

Rattle, then boom, in the Andes

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Chris Rowan

Do you get more volcanic eruptions in the aftermath of large earthquakes? Sometimes.
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Categories: earthquakes, geology, paper reviews, volcanoes

Don’t these people look where they’re drilling?

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Chris Rowan

Honest, guv – that magma chamber came out of nowhere!
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Categories: geology, volcanoes

Capetonian Geology: the Seapoint contact

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Chris Rowan

Very messy geologically, very pretty photographically – and studied by Charles Darwin.
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Categories: fieldwork, geology, outcrops, photos, volcanoes

AAPG Day 2: showdown at the Lusi corral

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Chris Rowan

Was the mud volcano drilling or earthquake-triggered? The AAPG decides…
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Categories: academic life, conferences, earthquakes, geohazards, Lusi, public science, volcanoes

Dike swarms and continental barcodes

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Chris Rowan

Who would have thought a mess of ridges could hold the key to reconstructing past geographies?
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Categories: geology, geopuzzling, tectonics, volcanoes