User:Mikenorton

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. 35 years later I'm still consulting, although it's probably more accurate to say that I'm mostly retired. I've worked mainly on nuclear waste disposal problems and for the oil industry, so no environmental issues at all.

I started contributing to Wikipedia in July 2006, concentrating on adding content to structural geology, although more recently I've also worked on earthquake articles and other general geology/geophysics pages.

User pages
My DYKs

Articles started

Barnstars & stuff

First sandbox

Second sandbox

Third sandbox

Fourth sandbox

Fifth sandbox

Geology of the Lake District

British Institutions Reflection Profiling Syndicate

2018 Lombok earthquakes

Earthquake catalogue

Tectonics of the Early Earth

Earthquake notability guidelines - now superceded, see here for the latest version

Depositional environment

Hornelen Basin

Geology of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake - rewrite of that section of 2008 Wenchuan earthquake article, now hopelessly outdated

Geology of the Death Valley area - attempt at rewrite

Hellenic Trench - need to find a way of reconciling the very different views of this bathymetric feature

Seismic wide-angle reflection and refraction

Sedimentary basins infobox

Earthquake articles to expand

Cretaceous template

To do list

 * Work on the stubs I've started
 * Expand Geology of Norway, it's almost without content right now - made a start
 * 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.
 * Improve the Geology of Lizard, Cornwall article
 * Add a section on rupture propagation to the earthquake article
 * Add a geology section to the Tibetan Plateau article, its origin doesn't get a mention
 * Add natural examples + something on pore fluids and effective stress to the Hydraulic fracturing article
 * Add something on mini-basins to the Gulf of Mexico article
 * Start articles for earthquakes on the Historical earthquakes, List of 20th century earthquakes & List of 21st century earthquakes pages - 57 added
 * Start article on the Gonâve Microplate
 * Add deformation sections for some of the main minerals (quartz, olivine & feldspar) that control the rheology of the lithosphere
 * Create an article on Lithology - needs to be more than just a dab page I reckon - see /Sandbox
 * Move Jan Mayen Plate to Jan Mayen Microcontinent and expand to at least 'start' level
 * Produce guidelines for notability of earthquakes
 * Create articles on the Lewisian complex, Dalradian Supergroup , and Hebridean Terrane - rewrite the Torridonian article
 * Create articles on Marlborough Fault System, Clarence Fault, Awatere Fault, Wairau Fault and expand Hope Fault
 * Expand articles on the East African Rift and the Baikal Rift Zone and start one on the Gulf of Corinth Rift
 * Start articles on list of earthquakes in countries that lack them - 4 added
 * Expand earthquake stubs - 20+ so far
 * Start article on 1877 Iquique earthquake - the tsunami killed people on Fiji and Hawaii
 * Expand article on Granitoid
 * Correct and expand Moine Thrust Belt
 * Start article on 551 Beirut earthquake
 * Start article on stress drop
 * Start articles on the 62 Pompeii earthquake and the 141 Lycia earthquake
 * Start article on Deep seismic profiling
 * Rewrite the Geology of the Death Valley area to bring it up to date so that it can be resubmitted for FA review - need to find a more recent review to allow update, given the number of competing views on the past and current tectonics
 * Rewrite the geology section of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake
 * Start an article on the Syrian Arc structures
 * Expand the 1269 Cilicia earthquake using the sources that I identified
 * Expand the 1511 Idrija earthquake using the sources that I identified
 * Expand the 1905 Calabria earthquake article
 * Rewrite the Torridonian, Moine Supergroup and Dalradian Supergroup articles in the light of recent publications
 * Start articles on Wester Ross Supergroup and Loch Ness Supergroup
 * Start articles on Knoydartian Orogeny and Renlandian Orogeny

Ready responses

Useful links

 * Template messages/User talk namespace
 * Duplication detector
 * title
 * Special:OldReviewedPages
 * IISEE online earthquake catalogue search page
 * Italian online earthquake catalogue (includes eastern mediterranean)
 * NOAA Significant Earthquake Database search page
 * The SHARE European Earthquake Catalogue (SHEEC) 1000-1899
 * The Wayback Machine
 * WP Geology - the unassessed importance list
 * list of earthquakes with >5,000 fatalities - we should have articles on all of these
 * template:cite web
 * template:cite news
 * template:cite journal
 * template:cite book