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Mount St. Helens
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Rock of Ages, Burrington, Combe.
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The sacred mountain
Fuji-san, Japan Polaroid SLR670-S, Polaroid Originals Color 600
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Postcard of Vesuvius (EVA 148 S)
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Greetings from the R/V Tangaroa, offshore the South Island of New Zealand. At the moment we are deploying a Controlled-Source Electromagnetic instrument offshore the Canterbury Plains, which will allow us to measure sub-seafloor resistivity. Once the data are integrated with new multi-channel seismic reflection data that we plan to acquire next week, we will be able to characterize the distribution and geometry of one of the shallowest offshore freshwater aquifers in the world. We are 12 days out on a 24 day research cruise. In the following weeks we plan to ground-truth our geophysical data by acquiring seafloor pore-water and water column samples where the groundwater is seeping into the sea to determine its origin and age.
You can follow our cruise on: www.facebook.com/marinegeologyseafloorsurveying/ The cruise is supported by a European Research Council grant (MARCAN) and NIWA.
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We got this card from my sister and her husband today. They are touring Iceland. Now, Icelandic is a tricky language. Fortunately I studied geology and we talked at length about Iceland and Icelandic volcanos. That’s why I know that Eyjafjallaökull is pronounced “Bob”.
Really well shot video tour through Iceland. Some of these are areas that appear in lots of Icelandic videos, but the sea stack at about :45 in and the volcanic craters that follow, as well as some of the valleys, are places I haven’t seen featured in these and they make a great view too.
Nice view of Lake Erie through the trees.
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Dear everyone,
There are few active volcanoes in the world as accessible as the Mt. Yasur cinder cone in Tanna, Vanuatu. With only a local guide, you can walk right up to the caldera rim (if you dare) where eruptions occur every 2-3 minutes. I was able to collect some very fresh lava samples to complement the oceanfloor samples that we collected during the SO-229 cruise along the New Hebrides Arc-Backarc.
Wish you were here,
Melissa Anderson, Ph.D. student at the University of Ottawa, Canada