Two weeks ago I finally resubmitted a manuscript with a batch of co-authors, 9 months after it was returned to me needing major revisions: I got them to extend the usual 2 months to 5 months, missed that deadline, got an extension to end April, missed that one also, got a 3rd extension, and got that done. It partly took so long because I completed the interpretation of folding and faulting offshore Palos Verdes Hills: before it was Santa Monica Bay and San Pedro Shelf done with a big gap in the middle of the structure. It took me the equivalent of 3 months full time work to do the interpretation, modify figures, work with a co-author who came up with a new model, and rewrite the manuscript 3 or 4 times for a total of about 8 times over 2 years (actually, part of this was part of a manuscript that was rejected about 5 years ago).

The next day, I had only that day to write an extended abstract. I worked about 14 hours and came up with a 4 page extended abstract with 4 figures. Most of it was written from scratch although a little bit was from our 2008 AGU abstract. The figures existed in some form but they all needed some modification. This extended abstract is not bad in my humble opinion (IMHO). It will be presented by a Turkish student who was here for 4 weeks working with me: it is on an age model for the sediments offshore Istanbul across parts of the North Anatolian fault system. The conference is linked but the abstracts do not seem to be online yet. It is for the 500th anniversary of the 1509 earthquake.
Chris