Report on Spanish Adventures!

Hello sadly neglected blog, I've missed you! You want to finally hear about Spain, huh? Well here you go.

I (Sarah) got the opportunity to spend the last week of May in Spain and it was awesome. The trip was a Chevron field course where geologists in the company get to see field analogues to some of the subsurface rocks we work with for our jobs. This particular course was looking at growth structures in a compressional setting to learn about how you can use growth strata to constrain time of migration and trapping of hydrocarbons.

Some of the gorgeous rocks we looked at. This is a tower of conglomerate.

We went to the Pyrenees mountains in the north of Spain, technically Catalonia (Catalonians hate to be called Spanish, I guess). We were pretty rural so didn't see much of Barcelona. But there is some incredible hiking to be had in that countryside, as well as some neat medieval towns and castles.

OK, I can't get stupid blogger to allow me to upload any more photos. This will have to be followed immediately by a post full of pictures. There's not too much more to say, I ate and drank my weights worth of delicious food and red wine. There were some really great folks on the trip and I had a great time hanging out with them. There's honestly nothing bad I can say about northern Spain and all its glory.