7 SPOTLIGHT ON INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH We are excited about our experiences in Malawi. Last year, Amy Pritt and Wesley Prater, two students from the Boone Pickens School of Geology at Oklahoma State University, and Alejandra Santiago‐Torres and Kevin Vélez Rosado, two students from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, accompanied Dr. Laó Dávila in a 1‐month field excursion in southern Malawi to better understand the role of pre‐existing structures on the architecture of new faults created by rifting. They collaborated with colleagues of the Malawi Geological Survey Department and Malawi University of Science and Technology. Structural and geological mapping in the northern escarpment of the Shire Valley, was conducted to determine if current extension was being accommodated along the faults of the Jurassic Rift. In addition, the contacts between border faults and the ring complexes in the Zomba area were characterized to determine if the occurrence of the intrusions had an effect on the orientation of the faults. Preliminary results of this research were presented in the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting and Exposition in Denver, Colorado and in the American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco at the end of the year. We will return this year to Malawi with 5 new students to the southern part of the rift to study the evolution of the Bilila‐Mkatakata Fault. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. II‐1358150. Left – right: Dr. Daniel Lao Davila, Patrick Chindandali (Malawi Geological Survey), Wesley Prater (OSU undergraduate), Alejandra Santiago‐Torres (University of Puerto Rico), Amy Pritt (OSU undergraduate), Elias Chikalamo and Lois Kamuyango from the Malawi University of Science & Technology with the Salimbidwe ring complex in the background (Kevin Vélez‐Rosado took the photo).
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