Megan and Nik joined Jason Harvey from Leeds University for xenolith sampling in Arizona and New Mexico.
On the night before Halloween, we took a trip to the USS Hornet for Nerd Nite at Sea – part of the Bay Area Science Festival. Highlight of the evening: Drones!
Over beer and reubens, Bob Coleman explained the geology of Californian peridotite massifs, including the Cedars and Burro Mountain. He also explained how New Idria got him started on the whole peridotite business to begin with.
Postdoc Lars Hansen packed his bags for the sunny spires of Oxford University, to begin a faculty position in the Department of Earth Sciences and a fellowship at University College.
Lars, Megan, Nik & Suzanne took an exploratory trip to the Cedars Peridotite in Sonoma County to round out their June fieldwork. The travertine deposits are spectacular, but finding fresh peridotite is a challenge.
In June we headed up to the Josephine for 4 days of fieldwork on Fresno Bench. This was our first spring foray into the Siskiyou and we had been warned that the weather could be bad. We were fortunate to encounter nothing worse than some clouds and high wind – and more wildflowers than on […]
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 Pyrenees. 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 Geosciences Montpellier.