G'day Tim,
Good to see you got something back from the ARC ... although I fear not as much as hoped, but hell its better than nothin'.
I just got back from the Musgraves. Man is that place remote! Fly into Alice Springs, then two days drive southwest along a very restricted aboriginal track. Nice rocks, but I couldn't hammer most of them because the aboriginal elders who tagged along (and were paid more than me) wouldn't let us. Lots of tea to drink since alcohol is forbidden anywhere within 100 miles of the place. Nothing like a hard days field work topped off by a nice .... cup of tea. You get used to it.
The rocks were excellent. Extremely high grade, dry granulites. Nice mylonites as you predicted. I collected some for dating and may show up over there to do it on the probe. Also pseudotachylites galore (I suppose more up Tom's alley). I swear I found a 20 metre wide one! That quake would've have topped N. Korea's.
How are things going over there? Settled in under the new regime? In the next few months I may be able to have some input into the foliations paper if you want to give it a go.
Paul
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