Harvard Geology Field Trip to Italy, 2010

I had the pleasure of traveling to Italy with a Harvard Undergraduate course, called Sedimentary Stratigraphy, which I have been auditing. I went along in order to film the trip for the Harvard Earth and Planetary Science Department. Check out the resulting vid!

Some cool tidbits: The music for the video was made by a local geologist and our field guide. The first song is actually composed "by the earth." Different pieces of scientific data from the period when the dinosaurs went extinct were assigned different instruments. For example, the asteroid impact that (most likely) killed the dinosaurs caused a huge spike in the rare element Iridium. That means that the rocks that were deposited at the time of the asteroid impact had an abnormally high amount of iridium in them. The iridium abundance in the rocks can be plotted on a graph. In the song, bells were assigned to iridium abundance, so at the point in the song where you here a big crash of bells, that is actually the iridium spike caused by asteroid impact! Pretty cool, huh? Its called "geophonics."

I'd like to especially thank The Earth and Planetary Science department, and the teaching staff of the EPS 182: Sedimentary Stratigraphy course (Ryan and Francis) for letting me come along.

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• Geology
• Sedimentary Stratigraphy
• KT boundary
• K/T boundary
• Earth and Planetary Science
• Adara Rotman

[7855waldo]

01:54: Inscribed on rock" "Hannibal slept here."

[pudgybuddy]

Geology Field Trip to Italy .... FOR ME TO POOP ON!

[soundmakeup]

you could of stayed home and done it here in the usa

[ElGanaFormation]

2:23 - Posher than any field trip I've ever been on.