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Published: August 16th 2015
Frasassi Gorge!
Our first day mapping, looking out over the Frasassi Gorge that we will get to know very well!I haven't posted in a while, because, well, I've just been having way too much fun in Italy! We've been learning all about the formation of the Italian Apennine mountain range, which is all limestone but depending on the age has subtle differences in the color, thickness of bedding, and composition including layers of chert, marls or shale. Last week we learned not only how to identify these different layers but also about strange anomalies within them.
Last week we went to Ancona on the Adriatic Coast to look at some cool rocks like evidence from an impact crater (not the same one that killed all the dinos), and some sweet gypsum anhydrite formed during a great oceanic anoxic event. After learning some geology, we went to the beach and ate lunch at an AMAZING restaurant that looked out at the Adriatic. After being served up two types of delicious pasta with fresh caught muscles and shrimp followed by sardines with bread and olive oil, the waiters brought out a whole smorgasbord of shellfish: more muscles, two types of escargot and mini clams. With white wine, looking out at the coast, eating shellfish in the warm summer sun, I could
Lexi roomie!
My roommate Lexi and I with a butterfly! hardly be more happy! After lunch we went swimming, and the water was so warm and salty, like nothing I have experienced before. Molto bene!
A few days ago we drove into Apiro, a small Medieval town nearby (but larger than Coldigioco) for a world folk dance festival. A few friends and I bought a liter of sangria and watched a dance group from Russia and one from Mexico-- the Mexican dancers changed their outfits at least five times! That night a group of us brought some wine (5 liters for 7 euro!) out to the field at Coldi, celebrated my new friend Luci's birthday and slept under the falling stars of the Perseid meteor shower, which has been visible for the better part of my trip so far. Bellissimo!
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