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Field Training Course and Workshop “Tectonic and climatic forcing on the Late Quaternary landscape evolution of Central Argentina”, 14-18 October 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 05:44 pm
From 14-18 October 2013 a field training course will take place in Central Argentina. The course and a workshop are organized by the Sam-GeoQuat Group, the topic is: “From the Pampean Ranges to the No...
New paper: Wiatr et al., 2013 – Slip vector analysis with high resolution t-LiDAR scanning 7 Aug 2013 | 04:23 pm
A new paper in Tectonophysics deals with the use of terrestrial LiDAR for identifying the slip vectors on fault planes. Thomas Wiatr, Klaus Reicherter, Ioannis Papanikolaou, Tomás Fernandez-Steeger an...
Quaternary shortening at the Andean orogenic front (31°-33°s), Argentina: Current issues and challenges 5 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
Quaternary shortening at the Andean orogenic front (31°-33°s), Argentina: Current issues and challenges Carlos Costa1, Emilio Ahumada1, Benjamin Brooks2, Andrew Meigs3, Lewis Owen4, Thomas Rockwell5....
Paleoseismology course at the Annual Meeting of the Union Geofisica Mexicana on 2 and 3 November 25 Jul 2013 | 08:09 pm
A course on Paleoseismology and Archeoseismology will be held at the Annual Meeting of the Union Geofisica Mexicana on 2 and 3 November 2013. The course will be coordinated by Víctor Hugo Garduño. Als...
Accretionary Wedge #58: Signs! (This sign is a sign, isn’t it?) 23 Jul 2013 | 08:12 pm
Following Evelyn’s call for geological/geographical/funny signs in the field, I post some nice ones that I came across during the last years. Check out the Accretionary Wedge #58 for more signs! Alban...
Job opportunity in tectonics – Postdoctoral fellow at Bergen University, Norway 22 Jul 2013 | 04:14 pm
Bergen University currently advertises a post-doc position in tectonics and surface processes, mainly involving modelling surface processes along active faults. It is a joint project with Patience Cow...
Field work image of the day: Broken stalagmites indicating earthquake activity 18 Jul 2013 | 04:56 pm
Todays field work image is again by Elisa Kagan and shows a damaged stalagmite in the Soreq Cave near Jerusalem. Damaged stalagmites were used to reconstruct earthquake recurrence intervals. Younger ...
Field work image of the day: A mass-movement core from the Dead Sea 17 Jul 2013 | 03:01 am
Elisa Kagan sent me this nice field photo of the day – a drill core containing mass-movement evidence from the Dead Sea: Mass-movement event from Dead Sea depocentre, ICDP-Dead Sea core, age: last Gl...
Field work image of the day: Four on the fault 16 Jul 2013 | 03:28 am
No comment. Four on the fault. Near Bonn, W Germany.
New papers on earthquakes, paleoseismology and a “lost fault” 9 Jul 2013 | 02:39 pm
The latest issue of the Seismological Research Letters (SRL) does not only have a very stylish cover, but also includes some papers that will be of interest for the fans of old earthquakes and environ...