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Beyond ‘black and white’: rethinking continental drift and land bridges through plate tectonics and orogenic bridges

Beyond ‘black and white’: rethinking continental drift and land bridges through plate tectonics and orogenic bridges

In this essay, Jean-Baptiste Koehl reflects on the origin of a 100-year-old divide within the geoscience community and explores how tectonics and paleontology may be brought closer together through the concept of orogenic bridges. Disclaimer: The reflections presented here reflect my perspective grounded in my own research and experience.   One of the most iconic …[Read More]

Bridging the Gap: How Virtual Reality is Helping the Next Generation of Geoscientists

Bridging the Gap: How Virtual Reality is Helping the Next Generation of Geoscientists

Deciphering Earth’s geological history is no easy feat. For undergraduate students beginning their journey in geology, identifying a rock and drawing connections with relevant geodynamic processes occurring over millions of years can be a challenge. In this week’s blog post, Phillip Ruscia explains how virtual reality (VR) and the High Immersion Virtual Experiences (HIVE) research …[Read More]

The Hidden Topography of the Deep Earth

The Hidden Topography of the Deep Earth

Travel across the globe and you will see landscapes change along the way. But what if the same were true inside Earth? What if the landscapes we see on the surface also exist deep within? In this week’s Geodynamics 101 post, Ankit Barik, Assistant Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University, explores the hidden topography deep inside …[Read More]