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 […]
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 […]
