Monthly Archives: March 2007

Rebellious mantle refuses to tie itself to ridge axis

The new geophysics results from the spreading ridge on the East Pacific Rise, just published by Toomey et al., have already been mentioned on Deep Sea News: as guest poster Kevin Zelnio discusses, this new mapping of where the mantle … Continue reading

Categories: geophysics, paper reviews, tectonics

Yet more evidence that I don’t understand Americans

Would you believe that up until last week, I hadn’t heard of this whole March Madness palava? Hence the lack of real comment on the Science Spring Showdown – I was basically having an ‘Englishman in New York’ moment until … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery

Do blogging and CVs mix?

My latest Naturejobs postdoc column is now available. In it I discuss some of my motivation for moving to South Africa – so you could argue that regular readers have got the widescreen technicolour version already, although the emphasis is … Continue reading

Categories: academic life

Lusi quieting down?

The latest from Lusi Despite the sarcasm, I have been following the attempt to stem the flow of mud from Lusi with some interest, if only because the whole thing sounds like its been dreamed up by the Star Trek … Continue reading

Categories: geohazards, Lusi

Want to know about Monazite? Then phone a friend

At the beginning of the week, I came across this story, about the new ‘Ultrachron’ machine (developed by Michael Williams and Michael Jercinovic at the University of Massachusetts), which seems to offer some exciting possibilities for extracting the detailed tectonic … Continue reading

Categories: geology, links, rocks & minerals