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GeoTalk: Meet Marisa Storm, Molecular Fossil researcher!

Simon Clark March 14, 2023

Marisa Storm

Hi Marisa. Thank you for joining us today! Could you tell our readers a bit about yourself and your research? Hi, I am a geologist and organic geochemist, currently working as a postdoc at the NIOZ Netherlands Institute for Sea Research based on the island Texel. After my geology-focused undergraduate and master studies in Germany at the RWTH Aachen and Heidelberg University, I graduated wi ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Foggy Bandon beach, Oregon

Frederik Tack June 17, 2019

Foggy Bandon beach, Oregon. Credit: Frederik Tack (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu).

This picture was taken at Bandon beach, Oregon. Bandon is well-known for its memorable seascape of stacks of all shapes and sizes. These rock formations are known to geologists as ‘knockers’ and carry nicknames like ‘the Wizards hat’. They date from the Jurassic period – about 200 to 145 million years ago – and are what remains from the great mélange during tectonic subduction processe ...[Read More]