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Plumbing the plume that created Samoa: a graduate student explores the magmatic origins of island chains.(Matthew Jackson's geological research)
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Oceanus
- Article date:
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April 1, 2008
- Author:
- Nevala, Amy E.
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Matthew Jackson began his journey to the center of the Earth on lonely gravel roads in Montana.
Uninterested in motorcycles and horses, and miles from neighbors and friends, Jackson roamed on his family's 6,000-acre cattle ranch an hour north of Yellowstone Park and flanked by the Rocky Mountains. His eyes hunted for agates and petrified wood fragments, and he filled so many cardboard boxes with specimens that his mother occasionally asked him to empty some before collecting more.
As he matured, Jackson's appreciation for rocks moved beyond aesthetics. "I wanted to know how they formed. I wanted to know their stories," said Jackson, now 30.
Jackson carried his ...