Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

EGU23 Monday Highlights

Franziska Keller April 24, 2023

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]

EGU-GMPV Division Medal and Award

Inês Pereira April 21, 2023

Are you ready for another exciting EGU General Assembly? This is that special time of the year, when you are finalising your talks, printing your posters, and selecting the talks/sessions to make your personal programme during next week’s GA. Exciting days! The GMPV blog team will be here, on your side, drawing your attention to sessions and talks that we think may appeal to your GMPV hearts! If y ...[Read More]

GMPV Early Career Scientists at #EGU23

Simona Gabrielli, Giulia Consuma and GMPV ECS Campfires Team April 17, 2023

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien - from shutterstock.com

Spring is here and EGU23 is approaching fast! Are you ready for a full immersion into every aspect of Geosciences? Anyway, EGU is not only scientific sessions, presentations, and posters… but also social events and networking! The ECS team of GMPV (and other Divisions) will be there, ready to meet you on many occasions. Here is a quick list of where and when you can find us. Sunday 23 ...[Read More]

Paper focus: Plumbing the depths of magma crystallization by Hugo Moreira and co-authors

Inês Pereira April 5, 2023

Secular variation in the mean depth of zircon-bearing magmas (Figure 4 featured in Moreira et al., 2023, in Geology).

Do you know when you stumble upon a very interesting paper, with a captivating title and you wish you could talk to the author(s)? Well, I did just that. It happens that I know the first author quite well, so I had no shame in contacting him and ask about it. One of his latest papers was published in Geology with the title “Plumbing the depths of magma crystallization using 176Lu/177Hf in zi ...[Read More]