Geodynamics

Between the Volcano and the Deep Blue Sea: Tales from Montserrat (Part 2)

Lorenzo Mantiloni, edited by Michaël Pons and edited by Constanza Rodriguez Piceda January 15, 2025

View of Soufrière Hills Volcano from Saint George's Hills, May 16th, 2024.

In 1995, the Caribbean Island of Montserrat was shaken by the beginning of one of the most significant volcanic eruptions in recent history: one that profoundly changed the natural, social and economical landscape of the country. Three decades later, Soufrière Hills Volcano and its legacy of destruction still shape the lives of Montserrat’s people. Last October, we took you on the first half of ou ...[Read More]

New Insights into Plume Buoyancy Fluxes and Dynamic Topography from Numerical Modelling

Ziqi Ma, edited by Yinuo Zhang and edited by Constanza Rodriguez Piceda January 8, 2025

Figure 1. Illustration of the hotspot swell and plume buoyancy flux. White dashed line shows the original seafloor topography due to half-space cooling. Dark green line represents the surface dynamic topography caused by the dynamic uplift of the plume. One of the main surface expressions of dynamic topography are hotpot swells formed by mantle plumes. In this week’s post, Ziqi Ma, PhD candi ...[Read More]

Queer Quarterly: Allyship in the LGBTQIA+ community – what it is, how you can help

Queer Quarterly and Pauline Gayrin December 11, 2024

Queer Quarterly logo, designed by Lea Pennac

Queer Quarterly is the blog series of the EGU pride group, a LGBTQIA+ team of geoscientists engaged to uphold and improve the rights of the community in the EGU organization. This week’s post is dedicated to allyship: how people outside of the community can support our efforts. The term LGBTQIA+ is the abbreviation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual. The addition ...[Read More]

How Hot our Moon Can Get: Mapping Radioactive Elements and Thermal State of the Lunar Interior

Arkadeep Roy and edited by Prachi Kar December 4, 2024

Geochemists and geophysicists, even with their favorite tools, have often scratched their heads while probing Earth’s deep interior—one can only imagine the challenges while applying those techniques to the Moon! This week in News & Views, Arkadeep Roy, a PhD candidate from the University of Arizona demonstrates how the intersection of experimental petrology, geochemistry, and geophysic ...[Read More]