Highly Allochthonous Archive

Further update: Highly Allochthonous is now found at: http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous . I am beginning to theorise that this is a c...

This morning, armed with my contract and my passport, I set out to register at my new academic home . I was told that I needed to go the Int...

Just a quick plug whilst I settle in down here in Jo'burg... Actually, I've never even tried to get properly published in Nature - I...

The last week or so has been... intense. The speed at which moving to another country went from a theoretical possibility to imminent realit...

Other people may have received cards telling them how wonderful they were yesterday – but not me. Instead, I got a nice long e-mail from JGR...

I dare you to visit this rather funky map quiz and not get addicted. My only complaint is that the pictures containing nothing but ocean fl...

I suppose as a geologist I should feel angry and aggrieved about this newly minted PhD student : …Dr. Ross is hardly a conventional paleonto...

From the Berkeley Geological Association blog (with some snipping): Geolympics is the ultimate in field geologist competition. This yearly ...

You might have noticed that things fell silent here only two days into my promised seven-day epic . As it has turned out, the reasons I prev...

In last months’ post about climate records from stalagmites and other speleothems , I concentrated on their potential for giving us detailed...