Authored by Lonnie Hufford. This post is about my second field season in Alaska. You can read about my first field season here: https://structuretectonics.org/2019/08/22/fire-and-seagulls-a-game-of-rocks/ Prof. Whitney Behr, Dr. Mark Helper, Dr. Zoe Braden, and I completed another field season this past summer in southern Alaska. Over the course of a month, we traveled the Kenai Peninsula using boats, planes, and
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Everyone’s tuning into AGU2020 over the next couple of weeks! If you want to catch up with what the Structure and Tectonics Group is up to, click on the titles below to check out our posters and talks. Thursday, 10 DecComparing quartz-in-garnet elastic barometry to conventional thermobarometers for rocks from diverse tectonic settingsMiguel Cisneros & Whitney Behr Friday, 11 DecModelling
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The 18th Swiss Geoscience Meeting will be hosted by the Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zürich on 6-7 Nov. If you’re attending, be sure to stop by the talks and posters of the Structural Geology and Tectonics Group! Dr. Zoe Braden, “Deformation processes and weakening mechanisms along a sediment-starved subduction megathrust”16.00-16.15, 7 Nov, Session 1: Structural Geology, Tectonics, &
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Authored by Leif Tokle. The last 9+ months have been chaotic and very ‘brave new world’-esque for everyone. Fieldwork for many (including our group) was canceled due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, Zoe Braden, Whitney Behr, and myself were able to make the short trip to Austria and spend seven days in the field studying high pressure rocks in
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No field work in Alaska for SGT this year, but that means that our research team has extra time to practice their water-based field techniques. This past week, the Alaska team – along with a couple of other intrepid SGT explorers – tested out their Alpacka pack rafts on the Limmat here in Zürich. Their serene two hour float in
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