Research paper word clouds

Brian at Clastic Detritus has word clouded two of his papers, creating what has to be the coolest word cloud use ever. Having no shame, I am going to copy him.

Here is Birch et al. 1997:

abrasion age al andalusite arnaud associated australia australian basaltic carapooee concentrates contact corundum crystals deposits diamond et figure formation fragments generally geological gold grains granites gravel heavy hills likely ma maghemite metamorphic minerals mm pb present range region report rocks rutile sapphires showing source south spinel sutherland typical victoria zircon

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Here is Klemme et al. 1998:

ablation al analyses analysis analytical apatite ca compositions concentrations coupled elements et fragments germany glasses heidelberg hf homogeneity icpms in-situ inductively interest isotope laser major mass materials measured minerals nb performed phosphate plasma prepared reference relative results several silicate sims spectrometry standard table techniques titanite trace university used values zr

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Note that both papers pass the suck-up test- the PhD advisor's name (from references) is not a prominent word. This is unsurprising, given that the people who actually wrote these papers haven't been students for some time.

The appearance of Sutherland raises a self-referential alert in Birch et al., but other than that the lists seem pretty topical.

Now I need to get some of my own manuscripts submitted so that I can do this on them!