This follows on from an earlier post, which documents the first half of a trip to China, myself and an undergraduate student from Royal Holloway made in 2012. In this part of the trip we were travelling from Lanzhou in the Gansu Province up the source of the Yellow River in Qinghai Province through Sichuan […]
Bhutan: Elusive eclogites and their importance in Himalayan mountain-building Clare is a senior research fellow at the Open University, UK and holds a NERC Advanced Research Fellowship. Her research interests focus on the metamorphic and temporal evolution of plate collision zones: from subduction zone eclogites to melting during mountain-building episodes. She her research profile […]
Anna Bird is a postdoctoral researcher at Royal Holloway University of London. Read more about her research here. Thanks to Anna for the great post. In 2012 Abigail Alderson and I headed off to China to collect samples as part of a NERC funded project titled “Dust storms and Chinese loess sources over the last […]
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 […]
