Pico de Orizaba or Citlaltepetl, at 18,490 ft. above sea level, is the highest mountain in Mexico and the third highest mountain in North America. It is a dormant stratovolcano within the Trans-Mexican volcanic belt that extends across much of central Mexico. The modern day volcanic edifice of Pico de Orizaba was built within and […]
Yarlung river, flowing at the geological boundary between Pre-Eocene Asia and India Douwe in Venice By Douwe van Hinsbergen In the summer of 2013, an international team of Earth Scientists undertook a field trip to the Indus-Yarlung suture zone, which demarcates the fault zone where since early Cretaceous time the Neotethyan Ocean subducted into the […]
Great Salt Lake, Jordan River, and mapping in my backyard
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. […]
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 […]
