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Marlo's on top of the world
Gibraltar
We took short day trip to visit a big chunk of British carbonate.
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Uploaded on Sep 23, 2009
Marlo and layered peridotites
Stunning pyroxenite layers in the Ronda peridotite, with amazing field assistan Marlo for scale.
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Uploaded on Sep 23, 2009
Spanish towns like decorating with my research!
Strike-slip fault
A large strike-slip fault with a reverse component brings up all the units from the Malaguide and Alpujarride nappes.
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Uploaded on Apr 8, 2009
Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada of southern Spain is a metamorphic core complex which brings up Iberian basement through the nappes of the Alboran domain.
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Uploaded on Apr 8, 2009
Whitney on Reales
Clouds lapping on the shore
Compositional layering in the peridotite
orange is dunite, bright green is clinopyroxenite, grey-green is peridotite.
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Uploaded on Apr 8, 2009
Great field vehicle
The clearance wasn't great, but this little guy carried us all over southern Spain with no complaints!
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Uploaded on Apr 8, 2009
Me + Peridotite
Layers!
Head in the Clouds
Reales is only about 1 kilometer high, but right next to the Mediterranean, the clouds are low enough to reduce our visibility.
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Uploaded on Apr 8, 2009
