There's salt in Utah!

UPDATE: More great lines from Mihai (see right)

Well der! It is the home of the famous Salt Lake (and its City) and the Bonneville Salt Flats where Richard Green made himself famous with Thrust SSC but now its also the location of my mini-research project im doing with my Exploration Seismology lecturer. Weve got some awesome data off a well known oil company so its now my task to process, analyse and interpret it ahead of the Geology Departments critically acclaimed annual Geodaze Symposium in the spring where my poster and presentation will be assessed for much coverted prizes.

Also this semester ive got a small side project with the Planetary Team, using some ground penetrating radar data from the Mars Recconnaissance Orbiter to produce a 3 dimensional model of a section of the Northern Polar Ice Cap with a view to find potentional carbon dioxide bearing rocks to help explain the presence of liquid water in Mars' ancient history. Both project involve using Promax, GIS and Kingdom software (all industry standard packages)!

So, boring stuff over (just thought it was worth a mention - im quite pleased at getting them going). Aside from that, this week's been nothing special (hence the lack of blogging!) - people don't want to read a load of crap when they could be spending their time on the internet much more effectively (Tim!).

The odd news this week involves geology (slightly!) - copper! The price of which has inflated somewhat recent thats its reported a 2p coin is worth more in copper than its face value. Anyway, a desperate thief in Germany recently tried to steal LIVE copper electrical wiring from a sub-station. He subsequently got shocked with 10,000 volts and died. Police can only identify him by his fingerprints since his hand was severed from his body during the shock. The rest of his body was completely unrecognisable! Theres a lesson to learn there - if your going to steal some copper either do it from a local DIY store or cut the power first!