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Remarkable Regions – The India-Asia collision zone

December 20, 2017
Remarkable Regions – The India-Asia collision zone
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. This week we zoom in on a particular part of the eastern Tethys as Adina Pusok discusses the India-Asia collision zone. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, US. Without doubt, one of the most striki ...[Read More]

On the influence of grain size in numerical modelling

November 29, 2017
On the influence of grain size in numerical modelling
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]

Alaska: a gold rush of along strike variations

November 22, 2017
Alaska: a gold rush of along strike variations
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 exploring the Mediterranean and the ancient Tethys realm, we now move further north and across the Pacific to the Aleutian-Alaska subduction zone. This post was contributed by Kirstie Haynie who is a PhD candidate at the department of geology at the University at Buffalo, State Univer ...[Read More]

The quest of a numerical modelling hero

November 15, 2017
The quest of a numerical modelling hero
Let's kill the bugs dragons and save the code princess!
Credit: Wikimedia commons: Saint George and the Dragon by Paolo Uccello

Numerical modelling is not always a walk in the park. In fact, it resembles a heroic quest more often than not. In this month’s Wit & Wisdom post, Cedric Thieulot, assistant professor at the Mantle dynamics & theoretical geophysics group at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, tells the story of his heroic quest to save the princess from the dragon clear a code from bugs and shows ...[Read More]