Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Earthquake in Peru

And it’s a big one – magnitude 8.0 according to the USGS. The preliminary moment tensor solution indicates a shallowly dipping thrust fault, with a rupture depth of 33 km. So this looks like a subduction thrust earthquake (the convergent … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes

Resubmission

Long-term readers of this blog may recall that just before I moved out to Johannesburg (and onto Scienceblogs), I got back some rather robust reviews for two papers based on my PhD research which I’d submitted some months previously. Although … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, publication

The lab equipment is willing, but the post-doc is… skiving

When trying to diagnose why the lab computer was refusing to communicate with my magnetometer, I forgot to factor in one very important fact: the computer is running Windows, which can be a little quirky when it comes to dealing … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, bloggery

Damn, I should have been a mineralogist

From CNN Money, of all places, comes a list of the most highly cited authors in Geosciences, courtesy of Thomson Scientific. Top Ten Highly Cited Authors in Geosciences, 1996-2007 Name Institution Department/Specialty Total Number of Citations Frank C. Hawthorne University … Continue reading

Categories: academic life

Evolutionary Humour, SA style

The last couple of days have been public holidays here – yesterday was

Categories: bloggery, fossils