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The fully published version of a comparison of seismic v geodetic moment rate of Afar and Corinth rifts available at
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lodn_wVTd...
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The fully published version of a comparison of seismic v geodetic moment rate of Afar and Corinth rifts available at
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lodn_wVTd...
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Contrasting rifts compared by Gareth Hurman from the perspectives of seismic vs a seismic extension of the Danakil and Corinth rifts
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Seismic and aseismic deformation in the Danakil depression, East Africa and Corinth Rift, Greece: Magma-rich vs magma-poor rift extension
The mechanisms accommodating extension in magma-rich and magma-poor rifts likely differ, with magmatic intrusion (largely aseismic) potentially domina…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004019512500304X
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ADD-ON - Afar Dallol Drilling
19 days ago
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@derekkeir.bsky.social
@
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"On the way to drill deep in science: Danakil Depression"
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Alessandro La Rosa
18 days ago
First day passed at LASI VII in Iceland, with many Inspiring talks and posters on magmatic intrusions in various geodynamic contexts! We presented our 2024 natcomm study on the pressurizion of a deep sill network in the Afar rift
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Sascha Brune
about 1 month ago
⚒️ Interested in the latest machine learning advances for understanding rifts? ⚒️ Join our
#RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
with Tolulope Olugboji, Eric Beaucé,
@gimmi-p.bsky.social
Monday, Sept 1st, 4 pm CEST Register
uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
Past talks
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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New ideas published in
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Geology that the Northern Appalachian anomaly beneath the Eastern US is a migrating small-scale convection cell originating from past rifting of the Labrador Sea
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@sasbrune.bsky.social
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A viable Labrador Sea rifting origin of the Northern Appalachian and related seismic anomalies | Geology | GeoScienceWorld
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G53588.1/659899/A-viable-Labrador-Sea-rifting-origin-of-the
2 months ago
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New ideas published in
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Geology that the Northern Appalachian anomaly beneath the Eastern US is a migrating small-scale convection cell originating from past rifting of the Labrador Sea
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@sasbrune.bsky.social
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A viable Labrador Sea rifting origin of the Northern Appalachian and related seismic anomalies | Geology | GeoScienceWorld
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G53588.1/659899/A-viable-Labrador-Sea-rifting-origin-of-the
2 months ago
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Congrats to Rhiannon Rees on publication of her trace element study from Ayelu, Abida and Gabilema volcanoes in the Ethiopian rift
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...
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Frontiers | Melt generation and evolution in the Adda’do rift segment of the Afar rift from trace elements and petrography
Along-rift variations in the stage of continental separation are observed in the northern East African Rift System (EARS), from magma-assisted continental ri...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1575660/full
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Congrats to Rhiannon Rees on publication of her trace element study from Ayelu, Abida and Gabilema volcanoes in the Ethiopian rift
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...
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Frontiers | Melt generation and evolution in the Adda’do rift segment of the Afar rift from trace elements and petrography
Along-rift variations in the stage of continental separation are observed in the northern East African Rift System (EARS), from magma-assisted continental ri...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1575660/full
2 months ago
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Roberto Rizzo
2 months ago
🎉 Our new
#PrePrint
, "Fault stability and reactivation risks in the Tulu Moye geothermal field, Main Ethiopian Rift," is now available. Crucial insights for sustainable
#GeothermalEnergy
. 👇
#FaultMechanics
#RockMechanics
#StructuralGeology
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;
@earth-science.bsky.social
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ADD-ON - Afar Dallol Drilling
2 months ago
The ADD-ON project has contributed to understanding the recent eruptive activity at Erta Ale volcano in Afar. See the activity report at
comet.nerc.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
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If you are interested in the Fentale diking episode then have a read of Prof. Elias Lewi's new paper in Bull. Volc.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Scientific response to the 2024–2025 dyke intrusions in the Fentale-Dofen Region, Ethiopia: geophysical monitoring, surface manifestations, and hazard mapping - Bulletin of Volcanology
In continental rifts, tectonic deformation, magmatic processes, and earthquakes interact dynamically reflecting the crust’s complex response to extensional stress and evolving subsurface and surface c...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00445-025-01852-x?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250714&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs00445-025-01852-x
3 months ago
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If you are interested in the Fentale diking episode then have a read of Prof. Elias Lewi's new paper in Bull. Volc.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Scientific response to the 2024–2025 dyke intrusions in the Fentale-Dofen Region, Ethiopia: geophysical monitoring, surface manifestations, and hazard mapping - Bulletin of Volcanology
In continental rifts, tectonic deformation, magmatic processes, and earthquakes interact dynamically reflecting the crust’s complex response to extensional stress and evolving subsurface and surface c...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00445-025-01852-x?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250714&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs00445-025-01852-x
3 months ago
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ADD-ON - Afar Dallol Drilling
3 months ago
An advert to see Dr Birhan Kebede talk about the ongoing subsidence at Dallol observed by InSAR in the Rifts and Rifted Margins seminar series
www.gfz.de/sektion/geod...
to subscribe for the session use link at
www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/subscr...
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Rift and Rifted Margins Online Seminar
https://www.gfz.de/sektion/geodynamische-modellierung/projekte/rift-and-rifted-margins-online-seminar
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Sascha Brune
3 months ago
⚒️ What do the ups and downs of rifts tell us about tectonics, volcanism and fluid flow? ⚒️ Join our
#RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
with Kyle Murray, Birhan Kebede, Bodo Bookhagen Monday July 7th, 4 pm CET Register
uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
Past talks
www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...
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Interested in the Turkana rift in East Africa? If so have a peak at the latest research by Corti et al. in GRL of the
@agu.org
@sasbrune.bsky.social
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Control of Gravitational Potential Energy on the Distribution of Off‐Rift Volcanic Activity in the Turkana Depression, East African Rift
We analyze volcanic vent distribution and calculate the Gravitational Potential Energy (GPE) in the Turkana Depression, East Africa GPE-related stresses resulting from variations in topography an...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2024GL114277?campaign=woletoc
3 months ago
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Interested in the Turkana rift in East Africa? If so have a peak at the latest research by Corti et al. in GRL of the
@agu.org
@sasbrune.bsky.social
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Control of Gravitational Potential Energy on the Distribution of Off‐Rift Volcanic Activity in the Turkana Depression, East African Rift
We analyze volcanic vent distribution and calculate the Gravitational Potential Energy (GPE) in the Turkana Depression, East Africa GPE-related stresses resulting from variations in topography an...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2024GL114277?campaign=woletoc
3 months ago
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Luca Caricchi
3 months ago
@iavcei.bsky.social
#SA2025
in
#Geneva
is in full swing! Hot hot hot, but fantastic atmosphere! Amazing to see the city invaded of the peaceful
#volcanology
crowd!
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Fumihiko Ikegami
5 months ago
I am speechless... >> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
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First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive
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LastQuake
3 months ago
Εγκαταστήστε δωρεάν το LastQuake για άμεση πληροφόρηση για σεισμους.Μοιραστείτε με άλλους την εμπειρία σας: 📱
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for a nice summary of the work on the pulsing Afar plume by
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
see this article in
@newsweek.com
www.newsweek.com/geology-plat...
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@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
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Magma "heartbeat" is tearing continent apart, geologists discover
"The plume is pulsing," said Earth Science professor Tom Gernon of the University of Southampton.
https://www.newsweek.com/geology-plate-tectonics-rift-mantle-plue-heartbeat-africa-afar-2089881
3 months ago
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In this new paper in
@natgeosci.nature.com
by
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
, she uses analysis of seismic and geochemical data to see pulsing of a mantle plume and how it flows along the rift
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@gernon.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mantle upwelling at Afar triple junction shaped by overriding plate dynamics - Nature Geoscience
The mantle upwelling beneath the Afar rift may be influenced by tectonic processes in the overriding lithospheric plates that shape the distribution of both the compositional heterogeneities and abund...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01717-0
3 months ago
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University of Southampton
3 months ago
@natgeosci.nature.com
@lancasteruni.bsky.social
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@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social
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University of Southampton
3 months ago
Our scientists have discovered deep Earth pulses beneath Africa that are slowly, over millions of years, tearing the continent apart and forming a new ocean 🌊 Read more 👉
https://tr.ee/Rj8ooV
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Nature Geoscience
3 months ago
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Magma "heartbeat" is tearing continent apart, geologists discover
"The plume is pulsing," said Earth Science professor Tom Gernon of the University of Southampton.
https://www.newsweek.com/geology-plate-tectonics-rift-mantle-plue-heartbeat-africa-afar-2089881
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Nature Geoscience
3 months ago
⚒️ Article: Mantle upwelling beneath the Afar rift may be influenced by tectonic processes in the overriding lithospheric plates
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@gernon.bsky.social
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
@swanseavolctephra.bsky.social
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ADD-ON - Afar Dallol Drilling
3 months ago
Interesting articles in the media of the research by
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
on the Afar mantle plume that is pulsing and flowing beneath the Danakil depression
@derekkeir.bsky.social
@echambersgeo.bsky.social
www.iflscience.com/on-a-timesca...
www.thesun.co.uk/tech/3555097...
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"On A Timescale Of Millions Of Years": Scientists Detect Pulsing “Heartbeat” Under Africa
Every beat leaves a different chemical signal in the rocks around the Ethiopian Rift for us to find.
https://www.iflscience.com/on-a-timescale-of-millions-of-years-scientists-detect-pulsing-heartbeat-under-africa-79755
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Emma Chambers
3 months ago
Absolutely fantastic work by Emma Watts
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
, Tom Gernon
@gernon.bsky.social
Derek Keir
@derekkeir.bsky.social
and others on the Afar plume combing geochemistry, geophysics and mathematical modelling!
add a skeleton here at some point
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In this new paper in
@natgeosci.nature.com
by
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
, she uses analysis of seismic and geochemical data to see pulsing of a mantle plume and how it flows along the rift
@wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@gernon.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mantle upwelling at Afar triple junction shaped by overriding plate dynamics - Nature Geoscience
The mantle upwelling beneath the Afar rift may be influenced by tectonic processes in the overriding lithospheric plates that shape the distribution of both the compositional heterogeneities and abund...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01717-0
3 months ago
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ADD-ON - Afar Dallol Drilling
3 months ago
If you're interested in the latest Danakil rift related conference and publication activity then see the updates on
www.afardalloldrilling.com/publications
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PUBLICATIONS | afardalloldrilling
Publications and conference abstracts output from the Afar Stratoid project
https://www.afardalloldrilling.com/publications
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Congrats to Birhan Kebede on successfully defending her PhD at University of Florence today. Thanks to her defence committee too.
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4 months ago
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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin
4 months ago
🧪🌋⚒️. Mesmerizing timelapse of
#Kilauea
#Volcano
#eruption
episode 23 in its entirety from V3 webcam this past week, courtesy of USGS. Original video and caption at
www.usgs.gov/media/videos...
. Lava fountains reached 300m,and the ensuing solidified tephra plume reached an amazing 1.5 km!
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Congrats to Birhan Kebede on successfully defending her PhD at University of Florence today. Thanks to her defence committee too.
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4 months ago
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Sascha Brune
4 months ago
⚒️ How, where and when do Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Elements accumulate in Rifts? ⚒️ Join our next
#RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
with Lukas Klose, Anne Glerum, Holly Elliott Monday June 2nd, 4 pm CET Register
uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...
Past talks
www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...
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Sascha Brune
4 months ago
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Gianmaria Tortelli
4 months ago
Excited to share our latest paper on rift localization in Afar,
@derekkeir.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
. Check it out on
@commsearth.nature.com
at
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Volcanism records plate thinning driven rift localization in Afar (Ethiopia) since 2-2.5 million years ago - Communications Earth & Environment
Rapid and localised changes in plate thinning caused by rifting is the primary control on the spatio-temporal distribution of volcanism in the Afar rift, according to argon dating of volcanic rocks fr...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02356-4
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Paper on the evolution of Quaternary volcanism in Afar from new rock dating just out in
@commsearth.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@rehachandresh.bsky.social
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Volcanism records plate thinning driven rift localization in Afar (Ethiopia) since 2-2.5 million years ago - Communications Earth & Environment
Rapid and localised changes in plate thinning caused by rifting is the primary control on the spatio-temporal distribution of volcanism in the Afar rift, according to argon dating of volcanic rocks fr...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02356-4
4 months ago
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Paper on the evolution of Quaternary volcanism in Afar from new rock dating just out in
@commsearth.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
@sasbrune.bsky.social
@sorcerinsar.bsky.social
@rehachandresh.bsky.social
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Volcanism records plate thinning driven rift localization in Afar (Ethiopia) since 2-2.5 million years ago - Communications Earth & Environment
Rapid and localised changes in plate thinning caused by rifting is the primary control on the spatio-temporal distribution of volcanism in the Afar rift, according to argon dating of volcanic rocks fr...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02356-4
4 months ago
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Well venting for the
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4 months ago
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The
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students enjoy the view of Elba from the Bianchane fumerole field
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4 months ago
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field trip to the Lardarello gethermal museum
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4 months ago
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The Google map of the Roman world explained to the
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@seismatters.bsky.social
4 months ago
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The
@talents-dn.bsky.social
students enjoy the view of Elba from the Bianchane fumerole field
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@susannebuiter.bsky.social
4 months ago
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network at steam venting from geothermal well at Lardarello
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@seismatters.bsky.social
4 months ago
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network at steam venting from geothermal well at Lardarello
@susannebuiter.bsky.social
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@seismatters.bsky.social
4 months ago
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Well venting for the
@talents-dn.bsky.social
network
4 months ago
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The Google map of the Roman world explained to the
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@sasbrune.bsky.social
@susannebuiter.bsky.social
@seismatters.bsky.social
4 months ago
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field trip to the Lardarello gethermal museum
@sasbrune.bsky.social
@susannebuiter.bsky.social
@rehachandresh.bsky.social
4 months ago
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Sascha Brune
4 months ago
Josef Zens
@gfz.bsky.social
on science communication. A short course for
@talents-dn.bsky.social
doctoral candidates.
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@susannebuiter.bsky.social
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