Scientists Who Selfie from the Field - Earth & Space Science News
Lior Kamhaji, an M.Sc. student at the Neev Center for Geoinfomatics, studies the tectonics and magma flow in a 100 Ma fossil mid-ocean ridge in the Troodos Massif, Cyprus. The photo was published in the "Scientists Who Selfie from the Field" project (in EOS, the American Geophysical Union’s weekly newsmagazine). Lior drills oriented samples for magnetic analysis in Ron Shaar's lab. Remanent magnetization vectors constrain the reconstruction of tectonic deformation since the had magma cooled and solidified. The magnetic fabric, corrected for 3D tectonic rotation, allows reconstruction of glowing magma directions ninety million years ago. She is about to travel to Nanyang University, Singapore, to work in Professor Benoit Taisne’s lab, where she will track particles injected into gelatin in transparent tanks, simulating 3D magma flow