Great Salt Lake, Jordan River, and mapping in my backyard
Alborz/Talesh Mountains of Iran – Annique van der Boon
Thanks to Annique van der Boon for this great post about her trip this month to Iran. December in Iran – Perfect field conditions. Iran is a fascinating country for geologists. Most of the country has a semi-arid to desert climate, so there is quite little vegetation, which means there is a lot of outcrop. […]
Sikkim Himalaya – Catherine Mottram
Catherine Mottram is a good friend who is just completing her PhD at The Open University entitled: “An integrated metamorphic and isotopic study of crustal extrusion along the Main Central Thrust, Sikkim Himalaya”. She recently had the first of several papers on this topic come out in the Journal of the Geological Society of London […]
Ten years on the Grand Staircase
As a geology student, I lived for field trips. It didn’t matter whether we walked up Rock Canyon or flew over the Himalaya, being amongst the rocks was the paramount experience of every class. Although I have now ended my student phase, nothing has changed. I belong in the field. As I transition from the […]
Namaqua Metamorphic Complex
The Namaqua Metamorphic Complex forms the western end of the Namaqua-Natal orogenic belt (see the bizarre granitoids of Natal here). These rocks were formed during the formation of the supercontinent Rodinia which was assembled roughly 1.1 to 1.0 billion years ago. This metamorphic belt reveals the guts of a collisional orogen. If we were to […]