Drilling deep

From Nights 11 May 2015

University of New England Earth Science researcher Dr Alan Baxter was on board a sea expedition to the Bay of Bengal earlier this year to recover a geological core revealing information on the formation and climate of the Himalayan Mountains during the last 55 million years.

Alan at his microscope

Core on the sample table

Drill bit locker

Drill floor

Joides Resolution ship

JR at the Panama canal

Scientist BBQ

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