Gouffre 56 at La Soufrière de Guadeloupe was roaring today! 🔈 sound on!
Not somewhere you want to fall into!
#MYGALE 🌋🕷️

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The top of the dome at La Soufrière de Guadeloupe can look like a barren hellscape in places 🌋 hydrothermal activity has killed the vegetation and is rotting the rocks forming the dome
#MYGALE 🌋🕷️
📸 Dr. Alexandra Kushnir

Lots of cool hydrothermal alteration work was showcased at #EGU24 ! Also, zoom in on the little sticker on the podium 😏 🌋 EGU GMPV Division

First in-person ROTTnROCK meeting since the start of the project! 🌋 Catch us this week at #EGU24 ! We are all now armed with ROTTnROCK stickers - so watch out for those around the conference centre too!
Claire Harnett TR Walter MagmaProf Rock Lab Strasbourg

Hello! 👋
The ROTTnROCK project has officially started (as of 01/04)! 🥳
Stay tuned for updates!
All four PIs will be at EGU next week, so don't hesitate to talk to us about the project!
Rock Lab Strasbourg Claire Harnett TR Walter MagmaProf
📸 Poás, Costa Rica (credit: M Heap)

New paper out about the distribution, intensity, and timing of palagonitisation in glaciovolcanic deposits! 🥳 The paper, led by Sophia Leiter UBC EOAS, focusses on the case study of Cracked Mountain volcano in Canada 🌋🇨🇦 Check it out here 👇

doi.org/10.1007/s00445…

Rocks from Tambora 🌋 in Indonesia arrive in the laboratory, thanks to the Marine Geological Samples Laboratory Marine Geological Samples Laboratory- URI of the Graduate School of Oceanography URI Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island!
Claire Harnett TR Walter MagmaProf Rock Lab Strasbourg

ROTTnROCK PI Claire Harnett delivers the opening keynote at the Physics of Volcanoes conference! 🌋 Looks like there are some rotten rocks in that dome!

Opening talk at the Physics of Volcanoes workshop. Great new results from the three dimensional modeling front. ⁦ROTTnROCK⁩

Bombs of the hydrothermal seal at a collection of Costa Rican volcanoes reveal their secrets! 🌋
Hydrothermal alteration can also make rocks, not just destroy them!

Altered rocks for the win! 😍

Hydrothermal alteration can also make volcanic rocks strong! 💪

😍 Alteration for the win.

New La Lettre de l'EOST Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre features a write up about our new European Research Council (ERC) project ROTTnROCK 🌋 and Patrick Baud's recent EGU EMRP EGU medal 🏅

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First ROTTnROCK poster, outlining the project, presented by Claire Harnett at VMSG 2024 in Bristol! Thrilled at the interest in the project! Get in touch for more details! 🌋
Rock Lab Strasbourg TR Walter MagmaProf

I was the behind the 23rd of December window in the - advent calendar of 2023! 🎄🎄🎄 Merry Christmas!
ROTTnROCK European Research Council (ERC) 🌋