Greetings from Oz. Thanks for visiting the blog! Jon and I have finally made it to Adelaide, and we are both suffering from some pretty intense jet lag (in fact, Jon has totally passed out and his "nap" is quickly becoming three cycles of uninterrupted REM sleep). Somehow, we managed to pull off quite a productive day running errands after our morning arrival despite our zombified state—but more on that later! My eyes are getting droopy, and while a string of loosely connected, semi-coherent ramblings might be entertaining, it's more likely to be disastrous.
In the meanwhile, feel free to browse around the page link tabs above for more information about why I'm in Australia and what I'll be doing here. Comments are much appreciated. Hooroo ('good-bye' in Australian lingo, apparently)!
Yayy! I'm so glad you are actually doing this. The layout is awesome, and I'm excited for updates :)
ReplyDeleteWow! This is pretty awesome! You constructed this all in your droopy jet-lagged state?
ReplyDeleteIs your research only concerned with timing? Or will you also be making deductions from data as to the cause of the depletion? I guess I should probably wait till you update that haha.
ReplyDelete@Doyouthinkhesaurus: The cause of the Shuram anomaly is basically the big mystery that we are trying to figure out. All the research we accomplish goes towards resolving this question, but the biggest setback to finding the answer is the fact that we can't apply absolute dating techniques to the Wonoka; volcanic ash beds for U/Pb analysis just aren't there. If we knew exactly when and especially how long the anomaly lasted, that knowledge would further constrain the processes that could have caused the depletion. So that's what we've set out to do!
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