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Come see the Behr Group at AGU 2018!

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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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Fall field work on Syros – lots of sunshine, cats, and cool rocks!

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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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