User:Mikenorton
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I am a structural geologist based in the UK. I did a Masters on the Fracture Mechanics of quartz and a PhD on the formation of shear zones. I continued doing research, particularly on the Devonian basins of Norway and Scotland, until my funding ran out. I started doing consulting work while waiting for that elusive permanent university post to come along. 19 years later I'm still consulting, but I have given up waiting. I've worked mainly on nuclear waste disposal problems and for the oil industry, so no environmental issues at all.

I started contributing to the Wiki in July 2006, concentrating on adding content to structural geology, although I seem to be increasingly straying into Seismotectonics, which apparently gives me another article to write.

This user is a member of WikiProject Geology.

This user is a member of WikiProject Earthquakes.

This user is a geoscientist or is specializing in geoscience.

Articles started

I have started the following articles, although far too many of them are still stubs.

• Orca Basin
• Pseudotachylite
• Wackestone
• Gulf of Suez Rift
• Fabric (geology)
• Compaction (geology)
• Partheite
• Mangerite
• Seismogenic layer
• Continuous sub-grain rotation type dynamic recrystallization
• Deformation mechanism
• Detachment fault
• Extensional fault
• Extensional tectonics
• Strike-slip tectonics
• Thrust tectonics
• Ferropericlase
• Monocline
• Sheeted dyke complex
• Pressure solution
• Psammite
• Rockall Basin
• Sedimentary depositional environment
• Tectonite
• Continent-ocean boundary
• Source rock
• Focal mechanism
• Tectonostratigraphy
• Supershear earthquake
• Magnetostratigraphy - using text from the main stratigraphy article, I did find some references
• 2001 Kunlun earthquake
• 2002 Denali earthquake
• 1888 North Canterbury earthquake
• 1855 Wairarapa earthquake

To do list

• Work on the stubs I've started
• Expand Geology of Norway, it's almost without content right now.
• Start an article on Focal mechanisms
• Improve the 'Naturally occurring earthquake' section of the Earthquake article - hopefully achieved
• Improve the Quartzite article, sort out the lead and extend the occurrence section to the whole world
• Start an article on the Strain ellipsoid
• Generally improve the use of stress and strain terms in geological articles
• Start articles on major rift basins of the North Atlantic, Faeroe-Shetland Basin, Voring Basin, More Basin, Porcupine Basin etc.
• Start an article on Tectonostratigraphy
• Start an article on Continent-ocean boundary
• Improve the Geology of Lizard, Cornwall article
• Start an article on Supershear earthquakes
• Add an aftershock section to the Earthquake article
• Add a section on rupture propagation to the earthquake article
• Start an article on the 2001 Kunlun earthquake
• Add a geology section to the Tibetan Plateau article, its origin doesn't get a mention
• Start an article on the 2002 Denali earthquake
• Start an article on Seismotectonics