Tinted detail of a photo: Aerial view of steep limestone mountain ridges whose pale rock layers are tilted almost vertical, with green grassy slopes between them, a deep shadowed valley and a building with a mast on the left summit.
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Tectonics and Structural Geology

geochronology

Minds over Methods: Dating deformation with U-Pb carbonate geochronology

Guest author August 16, 2019
Minds over Methods: Dating deformation with U-Pb carbonate geochronology

For this edition of Minds over Methods, we have invited Nick Roberts, a research scientist at the British Geological Survey, working within the Geochronology and Tracers Facility (GTF) running a LA-ICP-MS laboratory. Nick has a background in ‘hard-rock’ geology, incorporating geochemistry, geochronology, and magmatic and metamorphic petrology across a wide range of tectonic settings, and …[Read More]

Minds over Methods: Reconstructing oceans lost to subduction

March 12, 2018
Minds over Methods: Reconstructing oceans lost to subduction

Our next Minds over Methods article is written by Derya Gürer, who just finished a PhD at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. During her PhD, she used a combination of many methods to reconstruct the evolution of the Anadolu plate, which got almost entirely lost during closure of the Neotethys in Anatolia. Here, she explains how the …[Read More]