Freya George

GMPV Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Freya George for the poster/PICO entitled:

Characterisation of a garnet population from the Sikkim Himalaya: implications for the mechanisms and rates of porphyroblast crystallisation (George, F.; Gaidies, F.)

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Freya George is a second year PhD student in the Department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research attempts to further our understanding of some of the fundamental metamorphic mineral-forming processes. This work combines high-resolution X-ray µ-computed tomography with quantification of the compositional variation contained within mineral populations and numerical simulation of garnet growth. The EGU 2016 poster presented results pertaining to a metapelitic garnet population from the Sikkim Himalaya, and showed that the garnet progressively nucleated and grew very rapidly, with approximate maintenance of an equilibrated state to peak metamorphic conditions.