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Italy Field Trip 2010, "Global Tectonics"

The Global Tectonics class visited Sicily over Spring Break, braving a solid week of unprecedented rainfall before Helios intervened and enabled the students to complete a small mapping project as well as tour the island's fold-thrust belt.

Extracurricular Creation

Pleistocene pillow basalts on the Hyblean Plateau
Overlooking the Turkish Steps, with astronomically paced late Miocene rhythmites
Overturned anticline in the mapping area near Agrigento
Jurassic-Cretaceous redbeds in the northern Sicilian nappes
Mesozoic carbonates at Caltabellotta
Underground chapel in a Messinian salt mine
Panormide carbonate reef and impromptu snowball fight
At the summit of Volcano, in the eolian islands
"Extreme danger of intoxication:" consider yourself warned!
Sulfurous vents along the crater rim
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