Hello everyone, and welcome to the new home of ‘Highly Allochthonous’!<\/p>\n
As regular readers already know, I’ve just completed a physical move to the southern hemisphere; but it some ways my electronic relocation, courtesy of the nice people here at Scienceblogs, seems even more unreal. I’ve occasionally commented here (and elsewhere) under the name ‘gengar’ – which has resulted in my old blog<\/a> currently holding steady at #9 on the Google search for a Pokemon name<\/a> – but I never imagined that I’d end up posting in such distinguished company. In addition, because there are far more interesting geological subjects out there than I could possibly cover, I’ll also be pointing you in the direction of other good geobloggers as well – as my new sidebar testifies, there’s far more out there than when I first started a year and a half ago.<\/p>\n Let the fun begin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello everyone, and welcome to the new home of ‘Highly Allochthonous’!
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\nAs it says on the sidebar, I’m a geologist. I’m principally interested in how the earth deforms in response to the motions of tectonic plates, but I write about pretty much anything geological that piques my interest (the categories on my old front page<\/a> should give you the gist). I also occasionally rant about the trials and tribulations of trying to establish an academic career; and, because you can’t seem to help it nowadays, I keep an eye on the strange people who think that I’m either foolishly deluded to accept the evidence for a 4.55 billion year-old earth, or that I spend my days fabricating that evidence to delude others.<\/p>\n
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