MGeol2020

MGeol Students from the University of Aberdeen! Follow us for rocks, rocks and rocks 🌋🌍⛰

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On yesterdays hike, this pretty lady befriended us. We dubbed her 'Bill' after the horse in Lord of the Rings, our trusty companion 🐴🐕

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Hiked over into Italy today, looking at high pressure metamorphic rocks - blueschists, and eclogites! I luv subduction zones ❤

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Through the clouds into Italy, ready to look at some subduction zone products #mgeol #Geology #alps #metamorphism

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Return to familiar terrain... Chenaillet Ophiolite welcomed me back with gorgeous weather #mgeol #geology #montgenevre #ophiolite #alps

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Working hard on interpreting seismic sections!

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Incredible day spent hiking through the Cottiennes Geo park. View from the top of the Chenaillet massif.
Fascinating geology of the well-preserved alpine oceanic crust.

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"Pillow Porn"

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Made it over the Italian border, mamma mia!

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Up, up and away!

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Pre-alpine migmatites

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Day 2: Classic Outcrop of the Ornan Fault, Basement and Fault Plane to the right and Jurassic Olistolith containing blocks of Triassic dolostone and basalt to the left #mgeol

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Half-way up al alt. 2416m, Gare de Peyrou d'Amont!
Meet the gang 👋🏼

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Cracking view from Le Chazelet this morning

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#MGeol Alps Field Trip Day 1: Urgonian Platform carbonates near Font d'Urle. Between the Urgonian cliffs are vegetation covered deeper water sediments - representing flooding events. Stunning landscape and outcrop #geology

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Yesterday marked our first day out in the field! Fair to say we were hot, sweaty and confused 😅
We visited 5 localities, looking at the Urgonian Formation platform carbonates. This photo was taken at our first outcrop - what a view.

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Bonjour Twitter! For the next week, 8 students from @aberdeenuni will be in the French Alps, undergoing fieldwork with the aim of understanding the evolutionary and structural history of the alpine belt. Follow us for an insight into the start of our MGeol journey 🌋⛰