September saw the addition of new members to the Warren Research Lab at Stanford University, seen below with current members after 2 weeks in the field.
In late August/early September, we spent two weeks in northern California and southeastern Oregon, looking at ultramafics in the Trinity Ophiolite (CA) and Josephine Peridotite (OR). This trip was part of a Stanford field class, GES 190: Advanced Field Methods, and the students blogged about their experience here.
The type locality for lherzolite is Lers, in the French Pyrénées. Megan and Jessica spent a weekend scrambling around these rocks – in snow! The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies generously provided funding for this trip.
Thanks to funding from the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Megan and Jessica spent a few weeks France, working on a project with Margot Godard and Benoit Ildefonse at Géosciences Montpellier.
Camping near Wadi Tayin – our site is by the white vehicle off in the distance
We’re heading south to Wadi Tayin for a few days of sampling. In the meantime, here are a few photos from the past week:
So far fieldwork is great. Internet access is not so great! Here’s one photo – not sure how long the internet connection will last.
This January, I will be doing fieldwork in Oman with Mark Kurz (WHOI) and Pierre Bouilhol (MIT). We will be sampling peridotite in the Oman Ophiolite to look at noble gas storage in the mantle. This project is supported by funding from the US National Science Foundation. Assuming that we have web access, I will […]