Pete Rowley

@pyroclasticpete

Volcanologist at the University of Bristol working on pyroclastic density currents and their deposits, and maritime volcanic risk. Occasional brewer, baker and blacksmith.

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Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· 19h

Little crescent suns using a tree as a pinhole camera

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· 20h

Eclipse ready

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· 11d

Cheese and biscuits time

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· 26d

Did a prehistoric pottery course with my wife a month ago. Today I'm seeing if I can fire it...

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· 29d

"Draw me like one of your French girls"

Cat lying on its back showing all of its belly

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· May 20

You have finished work now human.

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Apr 1

Memories of Dismaland

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Mar 31

Just rescued this little one out of a bucket of water

Peacock butterfly drying it's wings in the sun

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Nov 16

Are we sure it's not a Roman fast food stall? www.npr.org/2020/12/27/9...

Picture of two stone counters in a food stall excavated at Pompeii

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Nov 14

Some pyritised ammonites from Charmouth last weekend

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Oct 2

Pile of notebooks as evidence

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Jul 31

Text from Return to the Volcano: "An unusual story circulated after the war that Allied aircraft attacking Rabaul had dropped bombs into the craters of Tavurvur volcano to trigger an eruption that, hopefully, would be sufficiently large to dislodge the Japanese from their military base. So unusual was the story that many people believed it was probably untrue—a rumour, a myth, a good yarn. But the volcano bombing did take place. Takashi Kizawa told one of us (R.W.J.) of seeing bombers avoiding other targets and circling towards Tavurvur where they released bombs into the craters. The bombing had no effect, and Japanese soldiers considered the event to be a great joke. Kizawa, however, took a different view: that the enemy was inventive and determined enough at least to attempt a new technique. It helped him confirm his view that Japan would lose the war. Norm Fisher also told R.W.J. that he was consulted officially by the Royal Australian Air Force during the war about the use of bombing in triggering an eruption at Rabaul. He dismissed the suggestion outright, but after the war was amused to discover bomb craters within the volcanic craters of Tavurvur."

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Jun 18

If cats are liquid this must be some kind of pitch-drop experiment

Cat asleep on table with head hanging off the edge

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Apr 14

Gneiss geology up here.

A bolder of gneiss with a hill in the background

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Apr 11

Hollibobs!

Photo of the fairy glen on Skye, with pathways leading up to a basalt tower outcrop and a person standing on top

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Mar 12

Whale (?) breaching in the Clyde this afternoon. Think it might be a Minke? Blew a water spout first then breached about a dozen times around the same place.

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Feb 13

8.30 pm. This is a trap. Any attempt to stroke floof will result in teeth and 4 sets claws being embedded in your hand. This is not to be confused with 7 am floof which must be stroked immediately to avoid loud meowing.

White cat lying on its back on a red kilim rug exposing its belly for strokes / slash / mauling

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Jan 17

Months of knocking shit off the mantle piece finally clears enough ground to just lie there and absorb heat from the fire

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Jan 11

Had a walk out at Stockholm woods near Priddy. Plenty of ice and snow still on the ground and some particularly pretty light through the trees

Moss and ice on an old tree stump in sunlight

Trees on a slope in sunlight with mossy ground

Pine trees with moss and snow lit from the side with golden sun light

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Jan 3

Went to see the starlings at Ham Wall this evening. Always impressive (as long as you luck out and go to the right place...)

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Dec 30

December 30th 2024. Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. Marcus Aurelius

Easter eggs and chocolate rabbits for sale in a shop alongside discount Christmas chocolate selection boxes.

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Dec 27

Hoomans, stop going out. Demand strokes now.

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Dec 16

Piles the Christmas penguin is out for his 20th birthday. Stanley is apparently delighted.

Large toy penguin stood with Stanley the white cat lying down in front with his belly to the sky

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Nov 30

Stanley insists that the floof must be stroked before anyone is allowed to move on with their day. Trills are provided as encouragement.

Large white cat stretched out on bed lying on its side.

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Nov 19

Proper fat snow outside my office

Large flakes of snow falling outside an office window, with houseplants.

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Oct 10

All go in Somerset

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Aug 17

"Helping".

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· May 25

Which joker thought a yellow boardmarker was a good idea?

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· May 10

Aurora above our back garden. Not bad for Somerset.

Pete Rowley@pyroclasticpete· Feb 24

What I love is when the very passive and mild phrasing used by the BBC results in things like this. How to make him sound like someone not entirely of full faculty...