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Today’s [M8.6 strike-slip earthquake][sm] off the Sumatran coast is an incredible event for a number of reasons: First, it’s (as far as I’m aware) the largest recorded strike-slip earthquake. Second, it’s an intraplate …

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Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution requested writings on whether science has become overly specialized and what the ramifications of this might be. I didn’t have any of the ‘leads’ he asked for so I decided to write one. My take is …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …