John Cottle

Inexplicable! We’re headed to the South Island next week for the fieldtrip portion, so I still have time to convert them…

Over the past 10 weeks our “Geology of NZ” class has rated various kiwi treats baked by the Cottle whanau. Today the class ranked them. Results are controversial to say the least…

Structural, geochronological, and metamorphic discontinuities across the Monashee décollement, southern British Columbia, Canada The Monashee décollement (MD) is a crustal-scale shear zone within the southern Omineca belt of the Canadian Cordillera. This structure separates autochthonous Precambrian basement rocks and cover seq...

📄Just-IN: Structural, geochronological, and metamorphic discontinuities across the Monashee décollement, southern British Columbia, Canada by Holt et al. @kylelarson.bsky.social @antarctica360.bsky.social
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Today we passed our final test for full membership to the republic - scoring and announcing baseball 🦅🇺🇸⚾️

Inside the Laboratory – The Petrochronology Group at University of California, Santa Barbara In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” John Cottle, PhD, a professor of geology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a member of Spectroscopy’s Editorial Advisory Board, disc...

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⚒️ New paper re-examining low dispersion ID Lu-Hf geochronology in the Himalaya using in situ methods with @antarctica360.bsky.social and others. Quick summary? - Previously published ID dates appear to reflect mixing of Paleozoic cores and Cenozoic rims: doi.org/10.1016/j.gs...

Well, I’m exhausted, but thrilled that today was a success. Bittersweet that the first GSA session I chaired was honoring my advisor’s early retirement, but so happy to have brought these wonderful folks together and to have completely filled the room all day long!

Job Alert! The UC Santa Barbara Natural Reserve System is hiring. Know anyone who might be interested? Come lead this great organization committed to research, education, and environmental stewardship

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