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20 August 2010
The Purgatory Conglomerate
After my thesis defense at the University of Maryland, my mentor and friend E-an Zen asked me if I had ever heard of the Purgatory Conglomerate. I had not. Over the years, E-an has been a great source of new ideas and information to me, and so when he raises a notion, I pay attention. In my thesis, I had done some strain analysis on volcanic clasts in a meta-ignimbrite …