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Tag Archives: dike
Summer undergraduate researchers travel to Iceland to explore volcanoes
Iceland – In our last post, Team Geochemistry was getting ready to head to Iceland for some field work on volcanoes. Our goals were to map and sample volcanoes that erupted under glaciers, which have since retreated, exposing the pillow … Continue reading
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Tagged ash, basalt, cookie, dike, field work, geothermal, glaciovolcanism, hot dog, hyaloclastite, Iceland, pillow lava, team geochemistry, tephra, undergraduate research
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Keck Students Doing Rock Hard Research
Hafnarfjörður, Iceland – Guest Blogger Ben Kumpf (’18)
Keck 2016 Arrives in Iceland
Hafnafjörður, Iceland – What a fantastic day! Dr. Ben Edwards and I are leading a 6-student Keck trip to Iceland to study a glaciovolcanic ridge. It was a long travel day, but everyone (and their luggage) arrived safe and sound. … Continue reading
Science Highlights from VMSG 2016
Dublin, Ireland – The technical program of VMSG 2016 concluded today and I am saturated with new ideas about igneous systems. Abstracts for all of the talks and posters can be found on the VMSG 2016 website. There were so … Continue reading
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Tagged 3-D printing, Bushveld, dike, education, kinematic modeling, Lp, magma mush, Mt. Etna, olivine zoning, outreach, plagioclase, pyroxene, seismic, sill, thermodynamic modeling, VMSG, VMSG2016, volcanic hazards
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Pillows, and Dikes, and Bears. Oh My!
Guest Bloggers: Mary Reinthal, Julia Franceschi, and Liz Plascencia Greetings from Smithers, British Columbia! It is day three on the road and we are less then 2 days away from arriving at our field site – Pillow Ridge here we … Continue reading
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Tagged basalt, bear, British Columbia, columnar joint, dike, pillow lava, undergraduate research, waterfall, Wells Gray
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A day of talks and scientific camaraderie at the 2014 Larwood Meeting
SOPOT, POLAND — Our first day of the Larwood Meeting was much fun, especially after I unloaded my presentation in the morning and could relax. We are gathering on the beautiful campus of the Instytut Oceanologii (one building pictured above), … Continue reading
A Journey Inside the Volcano
ICELAND – You may remember that Team Iceland is trying to determine the origin of interesting columnar-jointed features exposed in the interior of a subglacial pillow ridge. We have several hypotheses, one of which is that they could be related … Continue reading
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Tagged basalt, cinder cone, dike, Iceland, Inside Volcano Tour, lava, moberg, Thrihnukagigur
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Mission Possible: Mapping the Quarry Walls
ICELAND – We spent Sunday morning discussing all of the features that we’ve seen during our reconnaissance investigations. After comparing notes, we defined several lithofacies, or mappable units with specific lithologic features. Our coherent lithofacies include pillow lavas, dikes, and … Continue reading
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Tagged basalt, breccia, dike, Iceland, lithofacies, pillow lava, quarry, tuff
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Let the Work Begin
Guest blogger: Becky Alcorn Today was our first day of field work in Undirlithar quarry. Although a lot of the quarry has been filled in in the last year, we had a very successful day and found three dikes that … Continue reading
A Short Update from the Diabase Quarries
We have an early morning tomorrow, since we’re running our NE-SE GSA field trip for the Pennsylvania Geological Survey. So, this post will be short and sweet. Here are a few of the highlights from today’s diabase escapades:
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Tagged diabase, dike, drill, Morgantown Sheet, Pennsylvania, quarry, sill
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