My area is the Totalp unit situated in the eastern Swiss part. To go to the field (over 2500m above the see level) I take the ‘Panoramaweg’ from the nearby village.
I woke up early in the morning and take a good breakfast. The first Panoramaweg is at 8.15am, so I need to be prepared and be on the station at least 5 minutes before. The trip takes about 30min. Once arrived at the top station, I have to walk for some time to my first outcrop. Once on the field, the very first thing is to start writing and describe what you see, you try to understand the processes and take samples. The samples would be taken usually with hammer and/or the helps of a special carrot sampling drill. My samples as special samples taken for organic geochemistry analysis, will be then wrapped in aluminium foil (put in oven at 400C to kill all the organic matter and the oil presented in it) and then put in denoted plastic bag. The last train to go back down to the town is at 5.15pm so whatever I do I need to get the last train. This means that the terrain morphology, sample weight and your personal tiredness should be taken in account to calculate the time needed to go back to the station. An appropriate marge should also be considered. Comments are closed.
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