Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

EGU23 Friday Highlights

Elliot Carter April 28, 2023

Fountain of orange glowing lava above a black volcanic crater, Fagradalsfjall, Iceland, 2021

Fire fountaining during the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption, Iceland. Image by Jan Oliver Eisermann via Imaggeo https://imaggeo.egu.eu/view/17149/

It’s Friday and after a long week of conferencing you’re now on the home straight, the final day of EGU 2023! The following are some suggestions for that last bit of GMPV content to to bring your conference to the perfect close: Kicking things off first thing in the morning, there’s a big, exciting session on Volcanic processes: tectonics, deformation, geodesy, unrest with a loads of fascinating p ...[Read More]

EGU23 Thursday Highlights

Inês Pereira April 27, 2023

Polarized light photomicrograph of a thin section of graphitic granulite from Kerala, India by Bernardo Cesare (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

It is Thursday, a bit more than halfway through your EGU-GA 23, and there are many interesting sessions, talks and posters to check out! If you are like me and tend to start feeling conference fatigue around this time, you will appreciate some of these highlights. Let me guide you through the Thursday sessions. Usually, about this time, I also take the opportunity to wander around the exhibition h ...[Read More]

EGU23 Wednesday Highlights

PIYAL HALDER April 26, 2023

Mineral-laden water emerging from a hydrothermal vent on the Niua underwater volcano in the Lau Basin, southwest Pacific Ocean. Source: https://www.usgs.gov/news/science-snippet/waterwords-hydrothermal-vent

Welcome to the third day of the EGU General Assembly, 2023. Hope that the participants and attendees are enjoying. Let’s start the day with a cup of tea and then enter the Hall. For virtual attendees, we have Gather.town. So don’t miss a single session wherever you are! Anyways, lets have a look on today’s sessions- The first session on “Magmatic, tectonic and hydrothermal ...[Read More]

EGU23 Tuesday Highlights

Simona Gabrielli April 25, 2023

"Glimpse of a foreign planet" by Julia Miloczki, from imaggeo.egu.eu

Time for the second day of EGU23! Get ready for other amazing sessions during the day! Here are some suggestions, in case you get lost looking at the program: Let’s start with the session Planetary Volcanism, Tectonics, and Seismology at 8.30 am, co-organized with TS13.1 and PS4, with talks regarding the InSight mission on Mars and the geology of other planets and satellites, as the Geologic ...[Read More]