Impressions from the microscopic worlds of Brothers Volcano
Many of the scientists aboard Expedition 376 have been looking at tiny features in extremely thin slices of rock. They’ve…
Art in the rock … What do you see in these thin sections ? EPISODE 2
Answer episode 1 : A horse giving birth … by Jiansong Zhang our poetry-geologist ! Can you guess this one…
Art in the rock … What do you see in these thin sections ? EPISODE 1
Jiansong Zhang, our Chinese reporter, gives a new vision of these ‘dry’ olivine-gabbro!!! let’s see Courtesy of Bill Crawford, IODP…
CORES DESCRIBERS : 3 teams, 3 specialties, 1 goal EPISODE 1: IGNEOUS PET
IGNEOUS PETROLOGISTS Jim, Lyderic, Tomo, Chuan-Zou, Biswajit, Alessio They focus on lithology and mineral composition. They have to determine grain…
Thin-Sections Part 1: What in the world are they?
If you take the stairs up to the core lab and keep taking a left through the lab, you will come across…