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Volcanology and Petrology Lab Group as West Virginia University 🌋 Thoughts and opinions are our own

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Our lab group is having a fun, productive time in Medicine Lake, CA! We had a successful time droning Medicine Lake this morning.

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Exciting news for @WVURockDoc, @ShelbyIsom, and @WVUGeology!

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For an early #thinsectionthursday entry, here is a beautiful ankamarite from Hawai'i (pebble found on Kona shore).

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Three samples of metamorphic rocks close(-ish) to WVU for #ThinSectionThursday - Wissahickon schist (SE PA), marble from US 340 (Potomac River, MD), and garnet gneiss from Hollofield, MD (W Baltimore)

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Walking between two tectonic plates with volcanoes and glaciers in the distance, @WVUGeology and @wvugeography students reached one of the few places on Earth where fire and ice collide. 🌋❄️Read more about their travels to Iceland 🇮🇸 in Eberly Magazine. https://t.co/isr7leAMKv

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Frosty the bubble says happy #ThinSectionThursday

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@breakmohrrocks This is awesome.

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This #ThinsectionThursday is brought to you by an unhappy basalt. @brennagcole has appropriately named this #FireandIce.

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Today's UG researcher is @rockycharlottie! Charlotte is a senior in @WVUGeology. Her research has focused on the reversal of the Frasier River in British Columbia. Charlotte's project has been primarily GIS based with a goal of identifying and evaluating past river terraces.

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@FossilDetective @GeoGinger23 @WVURockDoc Now you are just being disrespectful to Elvis and his hair.

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Happy #ThinSectionThursday from this chalcedony Elvis bowling pin. I hope you see the resemblance.

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Today's UG researcher is @anna_himelstein! Anna is a junior in @WVUGeology looking at rheomorphic textures in ignimbrites. Anna photographs hand samples and then traces the rotated clasts in inkscape. Her goal is to find the degree of rotation!

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Celebrating the last lab meeting of the semester with cookie cake 🌋

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This aged well

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@emma_krolczyk @TheJR This was her mega pumice drop which happened ~3 weeks ago. As you can see, there is an exceptionally stubborn piece of pumice floating at the surface. Emma put in many hours in the lab sieving and describing her samples before dropping them all. Gneiss job, Emma!

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Today the spotlight is on our UG researcher @emma_krolczyk, AKA: The Pumice Queen 👑. Emma has been recreating submarine volcanic eruptions in the lab by dropping pumice into homemade graduated cylinders to assess the validity of @TheJR's half piston coring method.

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@brennagcole Brenna was also just awarded the 'Outstanding Senior' award in @WVUGeology as a junior. Her hard work and attention to detail are unparalleled. You rock, Brenna!

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This week we are going to highlight our outstanding lab group members, starting with our undergrad researchers!

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This is @brennagcole! Her research focuses on developing an alternative method of analyzing olivine grains in kimberlites using x-ray computed tomography. If that sounds interesting to you, reach out to her! She would love to tell you all about it.

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@WVURockDoc @GeoGinger23 @MicroEarthSci Sample #14 from the rocks we just sent off. It was the basalt with olivine phenocrysts and large vesicles.