Geoscience articles on my current reading list

Quantification of the degree of confinement of a turbidite-filled basin: A statistical approach based on bed thickness distribution - Felletti et al -- method attempting to predict the degree of confinement of a deep-water system by using bed-thickness distribution; study area is in the Tertiary Piedmont Basin of Italy.

Facies controls on the distribution of diagenesis and compaction in fluvial-deltaic deposits - Hammer et al --  facies controls on diagenesis and compaction trends in the Triassic-Jurassic Are Formation of mid-Norway.

Lacustrine turbidite channels and fans in the Mesozoic Songliao Basin, China - Feng Zhi-qiang et al. -- documentation of delta-fed lacustrine turbidites, including dimensional data.

Romanian-born German wins 2009 Nobel Prize

Herta Müller, the Romanian-born German novelist and essayist won the 2009 Nobel Prize for literature.  She grew up in communist Romania and lived part of her adult life there. I relate to that experience, I left Romania when I was 25-years old.  My circumstances were different, and my adopted country was different, but I recognize many of my experiences in her writings. Ms. Muller's modesty and down-to-earth attitude when interviewed after she learned of the award stuck with me:

"I am the person that I am, I am now nothing better and I’m nothing worse. It’s O.K., it’s nice, but it won’t change anything for me. My inner thing is writing. That I can hold on to."

This is a great!  The typical news from Romania these days are not great, usually "no news is good news".  This is truly extraordinary, and makes me very happy and proud.