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Subduction

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]

Subduction through the mantle transition zone: sink or stall?

March 14, 2018
Subduction through the mantle transition zone: sink or stall?
And we thought that subducting slabs couldn't sink any lower.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons, xkcd

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 ‘Geodynamics 10 ...[Read More]

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]

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]