Geology for Global Development

Friday Photo (69): Geologists in the Field – on Top of the Fault

Rosalie Tostevin March 1, 2013 Active geology, Geologists in the field, Photos 2 Comments

These two geologists are standing at the top of a fault in Greece. The large elevation has built up over successive earthquakes, each moving the right hand side a few meters higher than the downthrow side of the fault on the left.

By Rosalie Tostevin

Rosalie was the Himalayas Programme Officer for Geology for Global Development and writer for the GfGD blog. She is a geochemist and a postdoc at the University of Oxford.

2 Comments

Simon Redfern March 1, 2013, 2:06 pm

Ha! Exploring extensional faulting (me in red) … I am rarely called a geologist 🙂
Simon Redfern March 1, 2013, 4:25 pm

… me on the right. It’s not often that I am called a “geologist in the field”!

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