A Blog Around The Clock (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... co-moderate the session "Connections with mathematics and programming through modeling". Chris Rowan is a geologist at the University of Edinburgh, a blogger and twitterer . At the conference, Chris will co-moderate the session "Earth Science, Web 2.0+, and Geospatial Applications". Read the comments on this post...
John Hawks Anthropology Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
A little off-topic, but interesting: Chris Rowan writes about paleomagnetic reversals and crustal movements some billion years ago. The change in inclinations through the section indicates that North America moved almost 30 degrees - around 3000 kilometres - southward in just 11 million years of volcanic activity. This means that the plate that it was located on was travelling at a speed...
Page 3.14 (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
As the Earth's tectonic plates shift and grind miles below our feet, we feel the effects on the surface in the form of earthquakes and volcanic activity. As Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science and Chris Rowan of Highly Allochthonous explain, earthquakes far from tectonic plate boundaries may be aftershocks of more violent seismic events along mid-continental faults that occurred hundreds...
