The team (Henk, Will and Ben) visited the High Atlas for a week in early June, to collect sediment cores and rock samples for the research project, and were joined in the field by Ali Rhoujjati (Marrakech University) and Abdel Eawague.
Our first port of call was to visit the Oukaïmeden plateau (where we have previously cored) to check out the vegetation. On our previous fieldtrip to Oukaïmed…
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Coring and Exploring the High Atlas
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Fieldtrip to the High Atlas, October 2018
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As we start work on our new research project, we took a short fieldtrip to the (snowy!) High Atlas to explore the study area and collect some initial rock samples for cosmogenic dating.
The trip included a visit to our "base of operations" at the village of Imlil, with surrounding valleys, including the Arromd valley being a focus research area. We also visited the village (and ski…