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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Authored by Lonnie Hufford. When asked what you did over the summer, it is common to talk about the camping trips, picnics, or vacations you took. However, as a geologist who does field work you can almost always respond with, “I was in the field.” What this statement means is completely different to each geoscientist, as it may encompass months
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Authored by Carolyn Tewksbury-Christle. Whitney Behr and Mark Helper, both fresh off several weeks of field work in Alaska, joined me in another field season exploring the geology of the Condrey Mountain Window. Straddling the California-Oregon border, the Condrey Mountain Window is a part of the Klamath Mountains and belongs to both the Rogue Valley and Klamath National Forests. This
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The American Geophysical Union Fall meeting starts on Monday, and we’re excited to share our latest research with you. Come see our talks and posters! Rachel Bernard Thursday, 13 Dec @ 8:15 Relationships between olivine LPO and deformation conditions in naturally deformed rocks and implications for mantle seismic anisotropy Thursday, 13 Dec @ 9:00 (coauthor, presented by Nick Dygert) Xenolith
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In case you didn’t know… Syros represents a fossil subduction shear zone. Rocks were brought to eclogite facies conditions in the Eocene and exhumed through the Miocene, partially along the plate interface and partially by crustal scale low-angle normal faults of the North and West Cycladic Detachment Systems. We go there to study the structural and rheological evolution of several different
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