HimaTibetMap-1.1: An expanded and updated version of the Database of Active Faults from the Indo-Asian Collision Zone- for ArcGIS, GMT, and Google Earth

This was a post that originally appeared on my old blog. Please note that I have left the post the way it was in 2011, except for the GitHub announcement I made in May 2013; however, please get the HimaTibetMap database from GitHub instead of the KU Hawkdrive, as that …

How to create topographic profiles in ArcGIS with x,y coordinates, and plot them with projected sample locations in Python

This post was from my old blog, and was far and away the most 'popular' post in terms of pageviews, etc. It has received minor formatting changes.

I have been getting a lot of zircon (U-Th)/He cooling data these past couple of weeks from my South Lunggar project, and …

International field geology campaign checklist

This is a post that appeared on my old blog on 20 April 2011. It is very slightly modified from that post.

It’s getting close to summer, and various geologists around me are gearing up for field campaigns to exotic locations. Doing this while trying to get the normal …

2010 Sierra El Mayor - Cucapah Earthquake Rupture: Initial field photos and impressions

This post originally appeared 29 March 2011 on my old blog. The text and figures are shown unedited.

Alt Text I just returned from a short trip to the site of the M 7.2 Sierra El Mayor – Cucapah (Baja California) earthquake that occured 4 April 2010. The purpose of the trip …

Slip partitioning part I: Earthquake slip obliqiuty across the globe

This post originally appeared 14 March 2011 on my old blog. The text and figures are shown here unedited. Presently, I think a lot of this can be explained by Mohr-Coulomb mechanics and rheologic heterogeneities in the crust. I also cringe a little at the way I did the statistics …

Himalayan arc-parallel extension from variably-oblique convergence

This post originally appeared 28 Feb 2011 on my old blog. The text and figures are shown here unedited, though my thoughts have evolved a bit.

Here is a summary of the first paper of my dissertation, which has been accepted to Geosphere (all figures are slightly modified from that …