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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
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Franziska Keller

Franziska Keller is PhD student at the Institute for Geochemistry and Petrology, at ETH Zürich. Her current work focuses on the understanding of long-term petrological cycles in silicic calderas of Japan applying different petrological and geochronological techniques.

A Geologist’s Dream Vacation: Exploring Europe’s Volcanic Wonders!

July 10, 2023
A Geologist’s Dream Vacation: Exploring Europe’s Volcanic Wonders!
Stromboli by Serena Repice Lentini (https://unsplash.com/de/fotos/C6lkAtaQy5k)

Summer time can be stressful – you have plenty of things to do at work but at the same time you’re thinking about your next vacation all the time. This is at least how I was feeling, combined with some curiosity, I asked chatGPT to write a blog post about vacation destinations for geologist around volcanoes in Europe – here are the results, I hope you get inspired:  Calling all g ...[Read More]

EGU23 Monday Highlights

April 24, 2023
EGU23 Monday Highlights
Grand Prismatic Spring by David Mencin (via imaggeo.eu)

EGU23 is finally starting! Hopefully many of you were able to join the icebreaker events yesterday evening and have a smooth start into the conference today! So why not kick the day off by listening to the Xin Zhong’sECS awards lecture on his outstanding work on grain-scale stress variation in metamorphic rock? Alternatively, next to many more exciting scientific sessions (e.g. a session on volcan ...[Read More]

#EGU23 session in the spotlight: Building the next generation of realistic models of magma propagation and volcano deformation

November 30, 2022
#EGU23 session in the spotlight: Building the next generation of realistic models of magma propagation and volcano deformation
Modelling of magma propagation mechanisms is essential to forecast and better interpret events like the Fagradalsfjall eruption in Iceland in 2021 depicted here (photo by Drumstick21 from commons.wikimedia.org)

The abstract submission for the General Assembly in 2023 is open now until 10. January 2023! The #EGU23 is set to again become a forum for innovation and debate about the latest progress in the geosciences, with a mixture of broader and more focused sessions. Today, we highlight one of those targeted sessions GMPV8.2 which aims to spark debate at the edge of the push in the GMPV community towards ...[Read More]

Sedimentary Rocks – Insight Into The Past And Future Climate

and July 28, 2022
Sedimentary Rocks – Insight Into The Past And Future Climate
Faulted jaspilite banded iron formation (Image by James St. John, distributed via https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/14872822457)

In the recent past, a lot of effort has been directed toward evaluating the consequences of the rapidly rising global temperatures. Among them, one very alarming consequence is ocean acidification (Fauville et al, 2012; Gatusso et al, 2015). Ocean acidification is the direct result of atmospheric CO2 increase caused in part by anthropogenic activities such as burning fossil fuels for energy activi ...[Read More]