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Sun, 08/07/2011 - 20:38Congratulations ( x2) Leah!!!!!!!! I note that 'Oh I got married.' comes a little further down after 'Got my degree' and ' what a wonderful place Cyprus is'! Nice to see you've got your priorities correct, although you have totally missed out and mention of Keo beer and Belapais and St Patalina wine (I cannot be held responsible for the spelling as its very difficult to read the labels after a bottle of either!)
Thanks for the write up on it. Any pics?
I went out there on a UN tour when I was in the Army (1976) and I had only just started collecting minerals then, but even in that 'green' state I realised that the place was a geological wonderland. Just wish I'd known more.
Once again congratulations on both counts.
John
“Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” - Will Durant
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Sun, 08/07/2011 - 20:46Thanks for the congratulations!!! Ooooo when we were there Keo was really expensive but you could buy a litre of "Leon" for 2 euros, so we mainly drank that or very cheap house wine. I do have some pics and will get them uploaded as soon as I can or I'll try and link you to my FB account that has the albums on it
Leah
At first you Mafic I'm basicaly intrusive, but when you get to know me you'll realise I'm orthogneiss.
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Sun, 08/07/2011 - 21:50Clearly things have changed drastically. Keo was cheap then. The wine and brandy were in the same green flagons. The difference was that wine had a white plastic cover cap and brandy a red one.
When the lads were coming back on leave or finally, they bought one of each (or maybe two or more of each!) went to the medical centre and scrounged a hypodermic needle (those things weren't laying around on beaches in those days) and they would draw the wine out using one hole - very carefully. That would be put in a glass and transfered to an unspillable place!! The brandy would be opened and syringe full by syringe full carefully squirted into the empty wine flagon through the same tiny hole. A small blob of Tippex 'camaflage' finished the job. I never heard of any soldier not getting through customs with it.
John
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Submitted by geo_girl on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 10:56.Hello all you lovelyt people
Sorry I havn't been around much, it's been a busy busy few months. I've finally finished my degree and I am now an upper second class (hons) master of Geology, I had a 2 week biostrat internship with Fugro...... Oh and I married another geologist
But I'm sure you're all itching to finds out about the Cyprus trip, so I thought I'd do a little report;
Dykes..... lots and lots of dykes. That's the first thing you'll notice about Cyprus, and they are all aligned in a certain way (NE-SW if my memory serves, I can't find my field notebook....) and as we near the tyransform fault (yep an on land transform, amazingly cool, even for someone like me that likes dead things a lot) they start to rotate with the direction of movement on each side of the fault.
Pillow lavas that's another things there are a hell of a lot of. Everyone has seen pillows before I guess, but these ones have feeder tubes and funky shapes and you can see whare they've rolled and they're geometry is really quite amazing as it's not all classic tear drop shape.
So pillow lavas and dykes..... that covers the top of the oceanic crust sequence.... ooo there's also a lot of gabbro layered and mushy, and I got some huge pyroxene crystals out of it.
Within on roadside outcrop (I'll get you the name if you want to know) you can see a fantastic representation of the multiple magma chamber model, dykes, gabbro, granite and bassalt can all be seen in the same 100m section.
The sedimentary stuff is mainly shallow water turbidite material, no real quantity fossils in most of it, but there are some if you've got a good eye. mainly coral, mega gastropods and fragmented shelly material.
There are a gfew very good non working gypsum quarries around where at least 4 types of gypsum can be observed in one place. Same goes for an open cast sulphur mine.
plenty of hyloclastic material to be seen on roadside outcrops.
If anyone wants specifics about names or areas let me know and I'll find out the field guide
Leah
At first you Mafic I'm basicaly intrusive, but when you get to know me you'll realise I'm orthogneiss.