As some of you are aware, my posting here to LJ is no where near as frequent since moving to Sweden as it had been while living in Tasmania, and Italy, where a much higher percentage of my leisure time was spent on-line. However, LJ has been no where near as neglected as my geology blog, which I hadn't posted in since February. However, last week' ( Read more... )

I have been aware of the existence of "spider" diagrams to display the concentration of Rare Earth Elements (REE) within a rock sample since I was an undergrad. However, I have never really used them because A) my data from my previous research projects didn't include that sort of data, and B) I didn't really understand how to "normalize" the data ( Read more... )

What have I been up to ( Read more... )