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Field Work

SAMPLING THE MARIANA TRENCH

Checking our position in the Jason control room.

A plagioclase peridotite! We can learn a lot from this sample.

Team photo, ROV Jason in the background.

Here’s a YouTube video documenting a day of sampling.

XENOLITH SAMPLING IN NEW MEXICO


Sampling on the flank of Cerro de Guadalupe, Cabezon Peak in the distance.


A fresh lherzolite.

OMAN DRILLING PROJECT


The drillsite for borehole BA4A, North Sharquiyah, Samail ophiolite (Oman).


The engineering and science team after collection of the final core!

D/V Chikyu in Shimizu port, where core description took place.


Brown alumni and faculty.

LUNAR CRATER VOLCANIC FIELD


The namesake of the Lunar Crater volcanic field, central Nevada.


Easy Chair crater.


Enjoying a beautiful day in the field!

TRINITY OPHIOLITE


A dunite-harzburgite-lherzolite sequence at Trinity ophiolite, Klamath mountains California.

METEORITES


An X-ray map of LL5 ordinary chondrite Alta’ameem. Blue is Fe, green is Si and red is Ca.


Forsterite in Bishopville aubrite in cross-polarized light. The white phase is enstatite.