Wir haben natürlich auch eine deutsche Version der Antwort auf die Frage, warum die Antarktis rund 30 Mio Jahre eher vereiste als die Arktis 👇🏻 www.gfz.de/presse/meldu...

Warum wuchs der antarktische Eisschild viele Millionen Jahre früher als das Eis in der Arktis?

Die durch Gesteins-Tropfen an der Unterseite der antarktischen Platte verursachte Kontinentalhebung hob die Landmasse über einen Kipppunkt hinaus, ab dem Eis wachsen und bestehen bleiben konnte.

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GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung@gfz.bsky.social · last mo.

Yes. Highly recommended reading! Some of our colleagues were involved in the study, for instance @sasbrune.bsky.social If you want to read our press release (based on the one of University of Southampton), click the link 👇🏻 www.gfz.de/en/press/new...

Really nice to read this in-depth feature in @science.org on our Science paper on East Antarctic Ice Sheet formation. A huge thanks to @voosen.me for your continued interest in and coverage of the mantle waves story! www.science.org/content/arti...

How an ancient continental breakup helped spawn the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Mantle waves and tectonic stretching lofted polar mountains into a deep freeze

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The formation of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet has stumped scientists. Could a tectonic event that took place tens of millions of years prior offer an explanation? eos.org/articles/the...

The Breakup of Gondwana Over 100 Million Years Ago May Be Why Antarctica Has Ice Today - Eos

A rift event set off a domino effect of geologic processes that created conditions ripe for Antarctica’s glaciation, a new study suggests.

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Our new study on how uplifting terrain in Antarctica helped provoke glaciation is out @science.org. Delighted to see this work through after many years. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @sasbrune.bsky.social @gfz.bsky.social @derekkeir.bsky.social @polarguy.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Continental breakup–driven uplift instigated East Antarctic Ice Sheet formation

Why Antarctica became glaciated ∼34 million years ago (Ma) remains debated, as relatively warm climates and sea temperatures appear inconsistent with ice sheet formation. Although a critical decline i...

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Bulletin of Volcanology link.springer.com/journal/445 paper just out about the first ever recorded eruption of Hayli Gubbi in November 2025 @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @alarosa.bsky.social @afardalloldrilling.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The first documented volcanic eruption of Hayli Gubbi, Afar, Ethiopia - Bulletin of Volcanology

Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar Regional State of Ethiopia experienced its first historically documented volcanic eruption on 23 November 2025. The event produced a short-lived sustained eruption colu...

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Bulletin of Volcanology link.springer.com/journal/445 paper just out about the first ever recorded eruption of Hayli Gubbi in November 2025 @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @alarosa.bsky.social @afardalloldrilling.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The first documented volcanic eruption of Hayli Gubbi, Afar, Ethiopia - Bulletin of Volcanology

Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar Regional State of Ethiopia experienced its first historically documented volcanic eruption on 23 November 2025. The event produced a short-lived sustained eruption colu...

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⚒️ Why are there earthquakes at passive continental margins? ⚒️ Find out in our #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar July 6th 2026, 4 pm CEST with Hamza Skikra @baoningwu.bsky.social Hardy Nkodia M.D-V. Register uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... Past talks www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...

@rehachandresh.bsky.social just before being mobbed at her @egu.eu poster @talents-dn.bsky.social

@rehachandresh.bsky.social just before being mobbed at her @egu.eu poster @talents-dn.bsky.social

Thrilled to share our new study, published in Tectonics, on spatio-temporal graben evolution in the rift linkage zone in #CentralAfar using quantitative #geomorphology, showing fault initiation timescales & evolution patterns.🌍 @derekkeir.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social doi.org/10.1029/2025...

The SGI-SIMP 2026 meeting is in Padua 15-17 September en.geoscienze.org/padua2026/ For extensional tectonics see “P12. Faulting, magmatism and crustal stretching during extension” en.geoscienze.org/N538/p12.html submission deadline 11.05.2026 @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social

The SGI-SIMP 2026 meeting is in Padua 15-17 September en.geoscienze.org/padua2026/ For extensional tectonics see “P12. Faulting, magmatism and crustal stretching during extension” en.geoscienze.org/N538/p12.html submission deadline 11.05.2026 @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social

⚒️ How do rotational tectonics affect continental rifting and break-up? ⚒️ Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar on March 2nd 2026, 4 pm CET with Ran Issachar, Hany Khalil, Asfaw Erbello Register uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... Past talks www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...

Stress inversion of focal mechanisms + structural mapping + Monte Carlo simulations. All open source. Open access. With @derekkeir.bsky.social @healydave.bsky.social 📄 doi.org/10.1029/2025... ⚒️ @eos.org #FaultMechanics #RockPhysics #StructuralGeology #EarthSciences #Geothermal #OpenAccess

Fault Stability Assessment in Tectonically Active Geothermal Fields Through Integrated Stress Analysis

Static fault stability analysis establishes critical baseline conditions for safe geothermal development The majority of faults in the Tulu Moye geothermal field are critically stressed under cur...

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Congratulations to new doctor Marella Parnas

New paper on fault slip susceptibility and role of fluids in fault slip by @robrizzo.bsky.social in GCubed agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Fault Stability Assessment in Tectonically Active Geothermal Fields Through Integrated Stress Analysis

Static fault stability analysis establishes critical baseline conditions for safe geothermal development The majority of faults in the Tulu Moye geothermal field are critically stressed under cur...

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Hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, and discrimination are viruses, magnified by suffering, carried in buckets, spilled onto the world. We cannot eliminate them by actions that magnify hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, discrimination and suffering - only by actions that relieve them.

New InSAR study by Marella Parnas provides insights on the likely fault responsible for the 1995 Aigion earthquake in the Corinth rift @alarosa.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...

Frontiers | New InSAR and seismology analysis of the 1995 Aigion Mw 6.2 earthquake (Greece)

As early rifts initiate and evolve, different fault geometries and kinematics may form. In particular, it is debated at what stage low–angle normal faulting ...

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New InSAR study by Marella Parnas provides insights on the likely fault responsible for the 1995 Aigion earthquake in the Corinth rift @alarosa.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...

Frontiers | New InSAR and seismology analysis of the 1995 Aigion Mw 6.2 earthquake (Greece)

As early rifts initiate and evolve, different fault geometries and kinematics may form. In particular, it is debated at what stage low–angle normal faulting ...

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Lisa McNeill training to use a Guralp Certimus for Corinth seismic project @seis-uk.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

New Research Topic on rifting and the energy transition available for submissions in Frontiers in Earth Science @rehachandresh.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Researchers say the ancient breakup of tectonic plates creates churning waves in Earth’s mantle that tumble in slow motion under the continents for tens of millions of years, sculpting topography deep within continental interiors. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4s8GTEs #ScienceMagArchives

New Research Topic on rifting and the energy transition available for submissions in Frontiers in Earth Science @rehachandresh.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

We have 51 ESPCDs available for loan at SEIS-UK. These devices are most suitable for shorter period surface wave and body wave studies. #SeismicSaturdays

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

#FieldPhotoFriday Sometimes flipping a switch is all it takes when trying to remedy a down station, if only the breaker that had flipped was local! The field crew stopped by this station near Jurupa Valley to diagnose and fix it, flipping the breaker and adjusting some cables is what did the trick!

@seis-uk.bsky.social has had seismic equipment on every continent through our work with the wider geophysics community. We supply equipment, software, training and expertise to ensure that world leading research can be conducted.

Nature research paper: The importance of past rifting in large igneous province development go.nature.com/4nFsYmD

The importance of past rifting in large igneous province development - Nature

Seismic data from the Turkana Depression in East Africa show that areas of thinned lithosphere are not necessarily persistent weak zones where extension and magmatic provinces will develop.

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Lisa McNeill training to use a Guralp Certimus for Corinth seismic project @seis-uk.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

AI is not just for menial works! Great job Gianmaria @derekkeir.bsky.social