From November 8, 2021 to December 7, 2021
After months of delays caused by the global pandemic, Alain Zanella from Le Mans Université, France, was finally seconded to YTEC, Argentina. Together with Augusto Varela (CONICET, Y-TEC SA, Argentina), Remigio Ruiz (CONICET, Y-TEC SA, Argentina) and Leonel Wainstein (CONICET, Y-TEC SA, Argentina), he undertook a field trip to the Austral Basin in Patagonia to expore natural fractures in rocks, filled fractures, bedding parallel veins, and complex networks.