At the 7 December annual meeting, the Bradley Best paper was awarded to Brent Goehring (Tulane University) for Holocene Glacier Length. Variations along the Spine of the American Cordillera. Confirming Hypotheses and Worrisome Trends. The Best paper is awarded $200. The runner-up for the Best Paper was awarded to Jan Hellman (UMD) for Fractionation and Mixing Processes in the Early Solar System inferred from Tellurium Isotope Variations in Chondrites. The runner-up paper is awarded $100. The best informal communication was from Kadie Bennis (NMNH) for a presentation on the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption. The best informal communication is awarded $50. The Sleeping Bear award goes to Steve Shirey.
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Preserved footprints in Kenya appear to record two different species of ancient humans walking over the same muddy lakeshore, probably within days of each other.
Happy Birthday P.J.!
The Bledug Kesongo mud volcano in Indonesia ๐
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๐ขTectonic Modelling Tuesday #102 - with analog work by @PabloGranado9 & co. (@IRGeomodels @Univ @UniBarcelona OMV AUSTRIA), on basin inversion in tectonic wedges (the Alpine-Carpathian fold-and-thrust belt)๐
More info in their 2017 Tectonophysics paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.02.022