Andrew K Laskowski is a PhD Candidate, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona working with Prof. Paul Kapp. You can read more about his research here. I moved to Tucson, AZ in fall, 2010 to begin my graduate study in Geology at the University of Arizona. I had always been fascinated with Himalayan-Tibetan tectonics, and I […]
Tectonics
New England Orocline with Uri Shaanan
Impressive rock exposures and magnificent landscape in your study area are nice but having them reveal unique regional tectonic events is exciting and worth working hard for (Fig. 1). The easternmost part of the Australian continent consists of a Late Palaeozoic to Early Mesozoic orogenic belt that is tightly curved into an omega shaped oroclinal […]
The Sanbagawa Metamorphic Belt, Japan with Owen Weller
Owen is a Visiting Fellow at the Geological Survey of Canada, researching the tectonometamorphic history of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. I recently completed a short-term Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship at Nagoya University, researching the formation of the Sanbagawa metamorphic belt. The Sanbagawa belt is located in south-west Japan […]
Swedish Caledonides with Jens Grimmer
Jens is a researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research has taken him from the Alps of Austria to the ultrahigh-pressure Qinling-Dabie orogen. He is currently continuing his work in the central Scandinavian Caledonides, central zone of the Variscan orogen, and the Sulu orogen as he explores the connections of structural geology and tectonics. […]
Albany-Fraser Orogeny in SW Australia with Chris Spencer
Having recently accepted a research fellowship at Curtin University, my family and are in the process of immigrating to sunny Western Australia. In preparation for this transition, I traveled to Perth to get the lay of the land. My perusing took me to the southwest corner of Australia near the town of Albany. This corner of Australia […]