Brand South Africa Blog

Chris Rowan, a British geologist doing post-doctoral work at the University of Johannesburg, is fascinated by our old rocks. “My geological instincts, honed back in the UK where ‘Precambrian’ is almost a synonym for fubarite, have always been somewhat dizzied by my many encounters in the past couple of years with rocks that have hung around for 2 or 3 billion years with nothing much happening to them.” Cape Town offered some relief. There old rocks really do look old.

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.