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Project Acronym: BASE | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5069

ins.: 2021-11-29 08:19, 4 yrs ago
By: Scientists
Category: BASE-Moodies
BASE-Moodies

BASE: 2021_11_26

Summer in South Africa is turning out unexpectedly cool, today not more than 18° C.
The suspected reason for the early-diagenetic silicification of Moodies microbial mats is the intrusion of a major mafic sill at Moodies time. We visited its gabbros and diorites, morphologically expressed as a deep forested valley in the BGB.

Summer in South Africa is turning out unexpectedly cool, today not more than 18° C. Drillers have a long weekend. Dora and Christoph went with visitor Jeff Moyen and his PhD student Steve on a field trip.