July 2017

Karaoke, geodynamics, and a bit of history

Iris van Zelst July 26, 2017

Anybody up for singing the Fossil Rock Anthem? Credit: Nikolay Frolochkin (source)

Let me just talk to you about what I have been doing with my free time recently: I discovered a feature from Google Books named Ngram viewer which allows you to make graphs that show how words or phrases have occurred in a selection of books (e.g., English) over the selected years. I have of course been playing with this thing! You can imagine how exciting my weekends are. In all seriousness, thou ...[Read More]

Don’t be a hero – unless you have to

Iris van Zelst July 19, 2017

How does computer programming work? I need a hero!
Credit: Modified by Iris van Zelst from Thibault fr, http://abstrusegoose.com, and Max Pixel

The Geodynamics 101 series serves to show the diversity of topics and methods in the geodynamics community in an understandable manner for every geodynamicist. PhD’s, postdocs, full professors, and everyone in between can introduce their field of expertise in a lighthearted, entertaining manner and touch on some of the outstanding questions and problems related to their method of choice. Thi ...[Read More]

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

Iris van Zelst July 12, 2017

Let's get rid of the mystery and reveal who we are! Credit: Max Pixel (source)

Romeo and Juliet famously had some identification problems: they met, fell in love, and only afterwards realised that they were arch enemies, which *spoiler* resulted in their disastrous fate. Oops. Of course, this could happen to anybody. However, we do not want this to happen to you! We want you to know who we, the EGU Geodynamics Blog Team, are! So, in order to prevent any mishaps during future ...[Read More]

Pre-plate-tectonics on early Earth: How to make primordial continental crust

Anna Gülcher / Lucía Pérez Díaz July 5, 2017

Artistic representation of the Earth in the Archean. Credit: Richard Bizley (www.bizleyart.com).

The sequence of events before continental crust formation has long been contested. Numerical simulations performed by Rozel and colleagues imply that the key to the puzzle could lie in the intrusive magmatism. Despite several decades of research on the topic, the trigger of proto-continental crust formation on early Earth remains an enigma. However, magmatic processes may hold the key to unravelli ...[Read More]