Field trip: Alaska 1964 earthquake and tsunami

The SSA 2014 conference in Anchorage, Alaska is over and so is the post-meeting excursion. Our friend and colleague Gösta was attending this field trip on the environmental effects of the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964 and he sent us some nice images and a brief description of this trip. This is the second part of his report.

Copper River Delta

Flight over copper river delta: rivers, glaciers and environmental effects of the 1964 earthquake (and some bearprints on the beach).

Glaciers and coseismic uplift in the Copper River Delta area. Great that the weather is better now.

Two tsunami scientists, two beers, two black t-shirts. Javier Lario (left) in the colors of paleoseismicity.org and Gösta (right) telling everyone he was “born on coal”…

Two tsunami scientists, two beers, two black t-shirts. Javier Lario (left) in the colors of paleoseismicity.org and Gösta (right) telling everyone he was “born on coal“…

Meanwhile, Teresa is practising tongue twisters, just as if German wasn’t hard enough to learn already…

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Now the field trip is over and the participants are on their way back home – have a safe journey!

Read the first part of Gösta’s report here.

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Christoph Grützner

Christoph Grützner

works at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Jena University. He likes Central Asia and the Mediterranean and looks for ancient earthquakes.

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