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Tectonics and Structural Geology

plate tectonics

Meeting Plate Tectonics – Dan McKenzie

October 23, 2018
Meeting Plate Tectonics – Dan McKenzie
Credit: Grotzinger, J. and Jordan, T. (2014). Understanding Earth. [Plate boundaries by Peter Bird, UCLA]

These blogposts present interviews with outstanding scientists that bloomed and shape the theory that revolutionised Earth Sciences — Plate Tectonics. Get to know them, learn from their experience, discover the pieces of advice they share and find out where the newest challenges lie! Meeting Dan McKenzie Prof. Dan McKenzie is one of the key actors empowering the Plate Tectonic Theory. He was Profe ...[Read More]

Meeting Plate Tectonics

October 23, 2018
Meeting Plate Tectonics
Credit: Grotzinger, J. and Jordan, T. (2014). Understanding Earth. [Plate boundaries by Peter Bird, UCLA]

The sixties brought us many moving moments: Woodstock, the civil rights movement, the moon landing… and the establishment of the plate tectonic theory. It is during the turbulent late sixties that scientists published groundbreaking manuscripts proving that pieces of the Earth’s outer layer are in a constant state of motion. In Late 1967 to mid-1968, Dan McKenzie and Robert L. Parker, Jason ...[Read More]

Minds over Methods: Making ultramylonites

September 8, 2017
Minds over Methods: Making ultramylonites
The Large Volume Torsion apparatus - Credits: Andrew Cross

“Summer break is over, which means we will continue with our Minds over Methods blogs! For this edition we invited Andrew Cross to write about his experiments with a new rock deformation device – the Large Volume Torsion (LVT) apparatus. Andrew is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, USA. ...[Read More]