Geodynamics 101

Finding the forces in continental rifting

Editorial Team 2 February 28, 2018

This week's Geodynamics 101 is on rifting and is by PhD padawan Luke Mondy (had to utilize some editorial license and go for the Star Wars puns). Font generated from flamingtext.com

The Geodynamics 101 series serves to showcase the diversity of research topics and methods in the geodynamics community in an understandable manner. We welcome all researchers – PhD students to Professors – to introduce their area of expertise in a lighthearted, entertaining manner and touch upon some of the outstanding questions and problems related to their fields. For our latest ‘Geodynam ...[Read More]

Rheological Laws: Atoms on the Move

Editorial Team 2 January 17, 2018

Opportunistic defects and sneaky, introvert atoms... much is happening within a rock across all scales. Left image by Brian Skinner and right image from Snorgtees

The Geodynamics 101 series serves to showcase the diversity of research topics and methods in the geodynamics community in an understandable manner. We welcome all researchers – PhD students to Professors – to introduce their area of expertise in a lighthearted, entertaining manner and touch upon some of the outstanding questions and problems related to their fields. For our first ‘101’ ...[Read More]

On the influence of grain size in numerical modelling

Editorial Team 2 November 29, 2017

Considerations of grain size are not just for sedimentologists...tiny grains have big consequences! Right image from Mark Wilson

The Geodynamics 101 series serves to showcase the diversity of research topics and methods in the geodynamics community in an understandable manner. We welcome all researchers – PhD students to Professors – to introduce their area of expertise in a lighthearted, entertaining manner and touch upon some of the outstanding questions and problems related to their fields. This month Juliane Dannberg fr ...[Read More]

The jelly sandwich lithosphere: elastic bread, the jelly, and gummy bears

Iris van Zelst November 1, 2017

Anyone else getting really hungry when doing geodynamics?
Credit: Max Pixel, Pixnio, and Max Pixel.

The Geodynamics 101 series serves to showcase the diversity of research topics and methods in the geodynamics community in an understandable manner. We welcome all researchers – PhD students to Professors – to introduce their area of expertise in a lighthearted, entertaining manner and touch upon some of the outstanding questions and problems related to their fields. This month Vojtěch Patočka fro ...[Read More]