Monthly Archives: April 2009

Not dead – just in Oman

Apologies for the unannounced hiatus in my blogging. Basically, I’m out in Oman doing some fieldwork, a trip that went from ‘happening at some point’ to ‘why don’t you leave next Monday?’ in a length of time rather too ridiculously … Continue reading

Categories: fieldwork

Foreshocks and aftershocks of the Italian earthquake

Monday’s earthquake did not occur in isolation – what do the smaller earthquakes tell us?
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology

Earthquake prediction: if only

Any geologist would be celebrating a genuine, proven, method of earthquake prediction: but we’re clearly not there yet.
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology

Tectonics of the L’Aquila Earthquake

Some geological background on the 6.3 near L’Aquila, Italy.
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology, tectonics

New Precambrian macrofossil discovered

[Update: It should come as no surprise that W. Haldanei comes not from southern China but some rather extreme photoshopping of a picture of a cute (and very much alive) bunny rabbit. The ‘biomarkers’ are all found in chocolate. And … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery