CORE ON DECK CORE ON DECK

CBcallanbentley.bsky.socialOct 5, 2024 5:11pm

First core of deck of #JTRACK #IODP #exp405 ! ⚒️🌊

Two impacts at the KT boundary? Maybe, looks like better dating is required but great find! www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Asteroid that eradicated dinosaurs not a one-off, say scientists

Scans of underwater crater in West Africa suggest another large asteroid smashed into the planet around the same time

Jeremy Wong's 1st paper w/ Wenyuan Fan and I is published in JGR! Quantitatively comparing 32 slip models of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, we find that small-scale complexities remain unresolved & highlight the need for dense offshore instrumentation agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

A Quantitative Comparison and Validation of Finite‐Fault Models: The 2011 Tohoku‐Oki Earthquake

We evaluate 32 finite-fault models of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, using realistic slab geometry and varying spatial resolution The models show strong agreement on large-scale slip features, b...

A little video documenting the past 30 hours of my life... youtu.be/MOy3B3O90nw

Callan travels to Sendai

YouTube video by Callan Bentley

Checked in for my flight! Tomorrow I begin the 36 hour journey to the Chikyu by car/plane/plane/train/bullet-train/taxi/helicopter. ⚒️🌊

Weehooo!! All to another mode of transit….ship!

We can’t wait to have you onboard!!!

Top ten percent by a hair! Finally! been waiting for this day since high school!!! 😂

Craters xkcd.com/2985

Incredible! Food, science, good humans-all fabulous! It’s our first night shift and we just watched the logging tools get assembled… next stop, the seafloor (in 30 hrs hehe)! Our first data from the sediments happening soon!