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50 years of plate tectonics: then, now, and beyond

July 11, 2018
50 years of plate tectonics: then, now, and beyond
Collège de France. Nice place for a symposium, I'd say.
Credit: Wikipedia

Even if we cannot attend all conferences ourselves, your EGU GD Blog Team has reporters that make sure all significant geodynamics events are covered. Today, Marie Bocher, postdoc at the Seismology and Wave Physics group of ETH Zürich, touches upon a recent symposium in Paris that covered one of the most important milestones of geodynamics. On the 25th and 26th of June, the Parisian Collège de Fra ...[Read More]

Let’s talk about disability in geosciences

July 4, 2018
Let’s talk about disability in geosciences
Geosciences should be accessible for everyone
Credit: Pixabay

Climbing towards outcrops during fieldwork for your undergraduate studies simply isn’t doable for everyone. However, this doesn’t mean that there are adequate alternative solutions available. This week, Katy Willis, PhD student on strain-localisation in the continental lithosphere at the University of Leeds, UK, discusses disability in the geosciences, because regardless of who you are ...[Read More]

Happy blog birthday!

June 27, 2018
Happy blog birthday!
Happy birthday to us
Happy birthday to us
Happy birthday dear EGU Geodynamics Blog
Happy birthday to us
Credit: Modified from Pixabay and NASA JPL

If the title and image didn’t tip you off: the EGU Geodynamics blog is celebrating its first anniversary! Almost exactly 1 year ago (okay, so it’s one year and one day, because I wanted to stick to the Wednesday upload schedule), the EGU GD blog was launched! Yay! Applause! Good thing we’re not insanely vain about or proud of this and going to milk this event with a blog post. Oh ...[Read More]

Remarkable Regions – The Kenya Rift

June 13, 2018
Remarkable Regions – The Kenya Rift
Image Credit: modified by Anne Glerum after NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens.

Every 8 weeks we turn our attention to a Remarkable Region that deserves a spot in the scientific limelight. After looking at several convergent plate boundaries, this week the focus lies on part of a nascent divergent plate boundary: the Kenya Rift. The post is by postdoctoral researcher Anne Glerum of GFZ Potsdam. Of course an active continental rift is worthy of the title “Remarkable Region”. A ...[Read More]