Week 9 - Fall 2025 - Turning 45, TLF Edits, and GIS Trench Logging Continued

I turned 45 on October 21st and we celebrated with a nice dinner out in SLC and then had a few friends over at the end of the week too. Time is flying by in the semester 2/3 of semester means 1/3 of the sabbatical. I still am about 1/3 done with the work I proposed for the sabbatical, so that is good, but I have stagnated a bit on progressing with the DLV San Andreas Fault paper. Mostly I've been dealing with slowly digitizing and re-digitizing some of the trench logs. There were 9 trenches! It's challenging because it was strike slip faulting, with pervasive faulting/fracturing and how to represent oblique to the trench fractures that generally reach the surface, but often don't continue with the trench wall due to their obliquity to the surface trace of the fault makes the logs a bit cartoonish when you need to close polygons. It's a compromise and will require some nuanced discussion and different types of figures to completely represent everything. Given the slow down, I'll need to pivot a bit to work on another chapter of the textbook so that can be completed by when it is needed too. Oh well... 

I have received coauthor reviews and made edits for all but two of the coauthors, so I should be able to submit the paper in a week or two, depending on how much reformatting time takes since we've decided to switch from Seismica to Geosphere for a broader (geology and tectonics) readership. 

I did a fair bit of biking during the birthday week, lots of climbing for me (over 6,000 ft). The weather has remained mostly good for all type of riding except it is getting a bit chilly for fast/flat road riding, hence all the uphill work to warm up and bundle up (padding on the MTB). Plan to tackle a few PRs and maybe try for an off road trophy sometime this week. If the weather warms up a bit maybe I'll go for a 100 km ride, I have not done a full century ride in a while. 


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