Early in the morning we will take a taxi to Kranoyarsk, and with any luck, fly with our samples from there to Moscow, to Paris, and finally to Washington for me, and Boston for Seth. Though there is one more opportunity for blog-worthy drama, in the airport clearing Russian customs, there will...
It’s a new Noril’sk. Her friends hardly recognize her. Immediately I was shocked by the sleek new airport terminal, entirely different from my visit in 2006, when rain was pouring through each of the high ceiling light fixtures and flooding the floor to a depth of several inches, requiring that...
Today the wind was from the south, and it brought a thick blue haze of smoke from forest fires on the Putorana Plateau. That meant our helicopter ride was delayed, and the photos I have to show are not as clear as they might have been. It also meant warm, clear weather, more good luck.
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Today we studied many layers of lavas and some tuffs while walking up a rushing stony creek called the Mokulay. Some tectonic folding and faulting of these rocks in the last 250 million years has conveniently tipped the layers, so we walk more or less horizontally along the river and pass the...
As one of our colleagues commented, "For every one day of work there are three days of arrangements. It's bad that way in Russia because we have many chiefs" Another result is that every carefully laid plan gets revised again and again right up to the moment it is happening; another colleague...
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Photo Credit: Scott Simper, Lindy Elkins, Ben Black, Seth Burgess,
John Rubin, Henrik Svensen
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