When the tephra sample is very happy to be blasted by a laser! What trace elements will it hold.
Becca Kearney
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Postdoc in Tephrochronolgy 🌋 All things volcanic ash, palaeoclimate, geochronology. Working in eastern Mediterranean. Cycling enthusiast 🚴♀️
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Just some pretty tephra from Süphan volcano found in Lake Van, eastern Turkey 🌋 volcanic snowflakes, not one the same
Some tephra-tastic news for February! New glass geochemistry of visible tephra layers from Lake Van are finally published!!! 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The volcanoes of Nemrut and Süphan take a bow! 🌋🧪
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The triumphant but very tired feeling of submitting paper revisions. A monster of a paper. But hopefully some tephra goodness from Nemrut coming soon 🤞🤞🤞
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Snowy Süphan in the sunset. Some inspiration to get the response to reviewer comments done on the Lake Van paper. It is a biggen but it’s a goody.