Douwe van Hinsbergen
@vanhinsbergen.bsky.social
Geology - Plate tectonics - Mountain building - Paleogeography - Mantle dynamics - Paleomagnetism - Whole-Earth System Science - Science communication - @GeoTdF.bsky.social - cyclist with a taste for ITTs - Professor at Utrecht University
In Beijing with old friends! Ready for some fieldwork in the Sichuan Basin
I fully agree with this analysis. The current peer review-based funding system is removing daring and innovative science, and awards toothless dragons that promise fire, but produce just recycled smoke.
Prof Chris Jackson@seismatters.bsky.social · 2w agoHas this been discussed here? #AcademicSky #Academia #ECR #HigherEducation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Published in #GJI Geophysical Journal International: "Paleo- and Neo-Tethyan subducted slabs beneath the Eastern Mediterranean region", van Hinsbergen et al. This is Fig. 1: please visit academic.oup.com/gji/article/... to read the paper. @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @academic.oup.com
A large 7.7 quake struck Flores, Indonesia. This occurred behind a major northward subduction zone at a ‘back thrust’ fault, where the volcanic islands from Bali to Wetar are pushed northwards, towards the uppet plate of Indonesia. earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m77-earthq...
M7.7 earthquake strikes Flores, Indonesia
Backthrusting along the Flores Thrust
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Only the second clip of its kind: the rupture of a fault during an earthquake! The fault offsets the lawn in the top left corner, and tilts the houses and lawn upward!
Henning@geohenning.bsky.social · last mo.A new video emerged which seems to show a surface rupture in Yatsushiro, Japan following the M6.8 earthquake in July! Exact location of the video would be 32°30'04.0"N 130°38'29.9"E. Absolutely wild. Only the second ever video of a surface rupture forming after the 2025 Myanmar video! ⚒️🧪 #geology
Especially for @janeikelboom.bsky.social ! Eclipse in Aliaga, Spain. With @ingeloes.bsky.social, as announced in @volkskrant.nl 😂.
Nathaniel Scharping wrote such a fantastic piece about me on #EOS @agu.org Thanks Nate! #Science #Geoscience #Earth #Geodynamics #Paleomagnetism eos.org/features/dan...
Daniel Pastor-Galán: Studying Ancient Earth, with a Little Help from His Friends - Eos
This rock lover carries his musical inspirations with him as he peers far back in geologic time.
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Two years ago, we made a clip about the Geology of Alpe d'Huez! Enjoy today's climb!
Geology of the Tour de France@geotdf.bsky.social · 2mo agoAlpe d'Huez day! Two years ago, Marjolein made this clip for the @le-tourdefrance.bsky.social Femmes about how the Alpe is folding without breaking! Enjoy the climb! And the spectacular folds...
Big subduction zone earthquake in Mexico, close to the border with Guatemala, 7.3. No major damage, luckily. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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This was my favorite @geotdf.bsky.social clip we made! Cantal Volcano day today!! 🌋
Geology of the Tour de France@geotdf.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday's Tour de France stage ends at Le Lioran, at the top of the Cantal Volcano, Europe's larges stratovolcano. Two years ago, we made this clip there, our favorite :) How volcanism led to the invention of the bicycle! @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social @uugeo.bsky.social
@nature.com publiceert vandaag een razend interessant artikel waarin voor het eerst spreiding van een mid-oceanische rug is vastgelegd. Ik legde @nrc.nl erover uit: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
Franse onderzoekers zien live hoe de aarde opensplijt en een onvoorstelbare hoeveelheid lava een nieuwe oceaanbodem vormt
Geologie: Grote en kleine stukken van de aardkorst zijn voortdurend in beweging. Geofysici hebben nu live gezien hoe zulke platentektoniek werkt. „Soms krijg je een cadeautje.”
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The FIFA assigned an American referee to USA-Belgium. Playing time will depend on when the USA has scored more than Belgium. The rule that a ball has to have entered a goal is abandoned. What goal to score in will be decided afterwards by the referee. The VAR got a peace prize. Let’s see who’ll win!
Massive earthquake in Venezuela, 130 km west of Caracas, on the main Caribbean-South America plate boundary. A double event of 7.2 and 7.5. Fear for major casualties and damage. The quake occurred on a triple junction with yet another major fault. This does not look good 🙁.
I climbed the epic Mont Ventoux today, with colleague Niko Wanders. I will not lightly forget the sheer happiness of riding in the barren limestones at the top 6 km of the climb. It was fantastic.
#paleontology question: not the first time to find something like this in fossiliferous #Oxfordian (#Jurassic) beds SE Spain (Prebetics) full of #ammonites, #belemnites, #brachiopodes. This part of a sponge, someone? #fossil ⚒️
A new study by @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social and colleagues introduces Paleolatitude.org 3.0, an updated tool for reconstructing ancient latitudes and paleogeography to support paleoclimate and paleobiology research. plos.io/4tBnAnE
Paleolatitude.org 3.0: A calculator for paleoclimate and paleobiology studies based on a new global paleogeography model
Paleogeography, and particularly the paleolatitude, provides key context in the interpretation of paleoclimatic and paleobiological data but these fields are typically studied by scientists in…
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Spread the word: We have a vacancy for a PhD student at the interface of geology and ecology/biology! Do you want to study - also in the field - how volcanism of the Cape Verde islands, and probably more, influenced ecosystem resilience? Come work with us in Utrecht! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
PhD: does an island’s geologic history predict its ecosystem resilience today
Curious about the relationship between geological history of islands and the resilience of their ecosystems in the face of human-induced environmental change?
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Here's a little experiment with Paleolatitude.org! The paleolatitude of a location on Earth changes for two reasons. One is the motion of plates over the mantle. For instance,India moved north in the last 100 million years or so, from ~60°S to the modern location. #SciComm
Paleolatitude
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The new Paleolatitude.org web tool is getting media coverage, like in Vice magazine. It's appeared in dozens of countries on almost every continent, and the site had >300.000 visitors since last Thursday. If you haven't checked it out: have a look! @uugeo.bsky.social www.vice.com/en/article/s...
Scientists Built a Tool That Lets You Look Millions of Years Into Your Home's Past
Hundreds of millions of years ago, the place you call home could have quite literally been somewhere else entirely on the face of the Earth.
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Paleolatitude.org 3.0 is out! But it’s been picked up by the media and the site is a bit slow due to high traffic…working on it! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Paleolatitude.org 3.0: A calculator for paleoclimate and paleobiology studies based on a new global paleogeography model
Paleogeography, and particularly the paleolatitude, provides key context in the interpretation of paleoclimatic and paleobiological data but these fields are typically studied by scientists in differe...
journals.plos.org
A short picture impression of our geological fieldwork on the Mascarene Islands 👇🏽 www.geologist.nl/mascarenes-2...
Mascarenes 2026 – Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen
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A few months ago, Goran Andjic and I figured out a way to reconstruct plates from the Cretaceous era in the ocean to the west of California. A week or so after we got that idea, I explained it to Nick Zentner on his great Youtube channel (www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFKN...).
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YouTube video by Nick Zentner
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