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Project Acronym: GYGY | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5011

ins.: 2009-04-22 02:00, 16 yrs ago
By: Scientists
Category: Elgygytgyn
Elgygytgyn

Elgygytgyn: 2009-04-22

Christian Koeberl, University of Vienna (one of the principal investigators) ...
The impact breccias are being collected in split metal sleeves instead of using the lexan liners. Christian Koeberl looks on.

Christian Koeberl, University of Vienna (one of the principal investigators) arrived at Lake E to start studies of the impact rocks as we finalize the drilling at site 1C. Here he is inspecting an impactite core containing strongly fragmented and monomictly brecciated volcanic target rocks, which are part of the central uplift of the El’gygytgyn crater.