Category Archives: geology

Six things I have learnt from my Namibian fieldwork

1) Never let yourself be talked into using a Mahindra as a field vehicle. They may almost look the part: but they’re about as tough as a chocolate teapot in a blast furnace.

Categories: bloggery, fieldwork, geology, ranting

Lusi: two methods of holding back the mud

The latest from Lusi The new, government approved method: Under the new scheme proposed by Japanese scientists, double-walled cofferdams will be built to fence in the mud so it serves as a counterweight to the mudflow… So that’s what “inverted … Continue reading

Categories: geohazards, geology, Lusi

Fieldwork photos

Here are a few snaps from my sampling trip. I didn’t take many, because the light wasn’t great for photography, and also because my camera was also being a little bit badly behaved. A view of the river I was … Continue reading

Categories: fieldwork, geology, outcrops, photos

The highs and lows of fieldwork

Four trying days into my latest field expedition, I seriously considered packing it all in and coming home, as I was clearly channelling the spirit of Murphy. Firstly, my vehicle broke down on the drive out. As it happened, this … Continue reading

Categories: fieldwork, geology, ranting

Nuclear Seismology

From ye olde blog, November 2006: A barely remembered anecdote, the buzz about the North Korean “nuclear” test, and a Web of Knowledge search combined to bring this paper up on my screen: Seismic tomographic inversion of Russian PNE data … Continue reading

Categories: geology, geophysics, paper reviews