Post-Lake Glenmaggie Mapping Trip Pt. 1

Aaaaaaaaand that's a wrap! The first mapping trip at Lake Glenmaggie was completed successfully with the generosity of Chris Booth allowing all eight of us on his property to camp. The brave souls who ventured onwards this time around were:

• Callum

• Cassia

• Billy

• Elaine

• Zac

• Gen

• Caitlin

With most of the group, it was the first time mapping and so I have to extend my apologies with thrusting the enormity of tackling the eastern margin of Lake Glenmaggie on them as their first exercise. But hundreds of dip/strike and lineation data measurements later along with a sprinkle of sketching, we have all survived through Lake Glenmaggie with, I hope, a little bit more experience in interpreting and understanding the many secrets that rocks display for geologists to unravel.

This trip was no easy walk along the shoreline though. Our transverse was riddled with periods of intense confusion, discussion and theorising... all good things for an aspiring geologist to experience and engage with. Perhaps the most difficult portion of the field trip was in separating foliation and fold generations as overprinting relationships were rare and often ambiguous. Areas of markedly higher deformation were found which often stumped previously developed ideas on what was happening in the region but I'll leave a conclusive statement until after I've interpreted all my data and stereonetted everything.

With hard work comes the simple pleasures of camping in a remote location in the middle of the Australian bush - moonlit trees and fireside conversations while sharing sweets and snacks.