#ecsmonday Homogeneous vs heterogeneous fault veins, which produces more damage? Kong et al. (UK) compare both end members and find that heterogeneous veins trigger broader fracture networks, splay faults, and distributed seismicity. doi.org/10.1029/2026JB034195 #paperalert #structuralgeology

#ecsmonday How fast did #Rodinia move? Zhang et al. (US) combine zircon, garnet, titanite, rutile and apatite #UPb geochronology to show prolonged Grenvillian #metamorphism and slow cooling in the Adirondacks. doi.org/10.1029/2025TC009333 #paperalert #paleogeography

Jobs on Friday! The School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Ireland, is looking for a Post-doctoral Research Fellow to advance the characterisation and 3D modelling of geothermal systems. Closing date: 12:00 (local Irish time) on 29 June 2026. www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo... number 019716

#ecsmonday Xu et al. (CN/NO/NL/DE) document ~40° of #clockwise #rotation in the eastern Qiangtang since the late Eocene. How much is regional oroclinal bending, and how much is local #strikeslip faulting? And what drove it all? doi.org/10.1029/2026GL122579 #paperalert #paleomagnetism

Jobs on Friday! ⚠️ 2-years Post-doctoral level Research Fellow position in Geodynamic Modeling & Surface Processes at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, for understanding Earth’s long-term climate resilience and planetary-scale carbon management. careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

🌍TS Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award 🥇 Submit the application by proposing a TS ECS scientist you think it might deserve the award! ✨ 📆Deadline: 15 June 2026 ℹ️Info on how to nominate a scientist here: www.egu.eu/awards-medal... 📁Guidelines here: www.egu.eu/awards-medal...

#ecsmonday Fast & slow #earthquakes talking beneath New Zealand? Maubant et al. (JP/US/DE/NZ/FR) find an asymmetric relationship at #Hikurangi: Mw 4+ intraslab earthquakes accelerate #slowslip, while slow slip quietly loads interface faults toward failure doi.org/10.1029/2025JB033143 #paperalert

Jobs on Friday! Postdoc position on the geological survey of the Quaternary successions of the CARG sheets 226 Cuneo and 243 Colle di Tenda. The research project consists in the geological survey at a scale of 1:10,000 of the Quaternary successions of the area. bandi.mur.gov.it/incarichidir...

#ecsmonday Harrichhausen et al. (US/FR/EC/CO) mapped #activefaults at the northern boundary of the Quito-Latacunga #microblock in Ecuador and Colombia. Is the ~3 mm/yr of #rightlateral strain concentrated on one fault, or spread across many? doi.org/10.5194/se-17-763-2026 #paperalert #InSAR

🌍TS Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award 🥇 Submit the application by proposing a TS ECS scientist you think it might deserve the award! ✨ 📆Deadline: 15 June 2026 ℹ️Info on how to nominate a scientist here: www.egu.eu/awards-medal... 📁Guidelines here: www.egu.eu/awards-medal...

Jobs on Friday! The Department of Geology and Geological Engineering in Québec City, Université Laval, is seeking a Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Structural Geology. Application deadline: August 31, 2026 Start date: Anticipated January 1, 2027 recrutement.fsg.ulaval.ca/en-US/

This Friday!⚠️🔥

#ecsmonday How thick is the #crust beneath a seismically active #Andean valley? Criado-Sutti et al. (AR/DE) combined receiver functions and ambient noise tomography to reveal a southward-dipping #Moho and 5-layer crustal model under the Lerma Valley: doi.org/10.5194/se-17-711-2026 #paperalert

📣2-years PostDoc position at the University of Lausanne in 3D fracture and fault modelling in the Swiss Molasse basin The aim is to develop a model for geothermal exploration 🌍 📆Application deadline: 21 May 2026 at 23.59 CEST more info: shorturl.at/lKK7P

#ecsmonday Interested in #forearc architecture? Ma et al. (CN/DE) identified a #low-velocity "forearc bulge" offshore Northern #Chile driven by trench-parallel #shortening, serving as a focal point for #upper-plate deformation and #earthquake clustering doi.org/10.1029/2025TC009197 #paperalert

⛰️🌍 TectoTalks #4 is coming! This session will focus on the tectonic evolution of the Pyrenees. 📅 22 May 🕚 11:00 CET 🎙️ Speakers: Douwe van Hinsbergen & Pablo Martínez Granado 🔗 Register here: msteams.link/FG7H

#ecsmonday Multiple pulses of #extension, not just #erosion: Wang et al. (US) document #serpentinite-matrix mélange roof zone on #Cedros Island that records 172–144 Ma extensional attenuation and #exhumation of high-P rocks from 30–40 km depths doi.org/10.1029/2025TC009340 #ophiolites #paperalert

Jobs on Friday! The Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology is looking to recruit a two-year Postdoctoral Researcher position focused on research into the links between magmatism and mineral deposit genesis here in Nevada. nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... #geology #earthscience

📣EGU TS Division Social Evening!🍻🍟 📆Wednesday 6 May 2026 from 19:30 📍 Strandbar Hermann, Vienna 🍸🍻 See you there! 🔥🍻

📣Medal Talks at the EGU 2026!🏅⚒️ 📆Arthur Holmes Medal Talk by Mike Searle | Tue, 05 May, 12:45–13:45 Room E1. 📆Marie Tharp Medal Talk by Christian Teyssier | Thu, 07 May, 19:00–19:30 Room G2. www.egu.eu/awards-medal... www.egu.eu/awards-medal...

List of the EGU TS Division activities for the approaching EGU GA 2026!⚒️🔥 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ts...

#ecsmonday Slow earthquakes trigger more #aftershocks: Yuta Ito et al. (JP) show the shallow #tremor zone (10-20 km depth) off Iwate has significantly higher aftershock productivity than deeper zones - transient #aseismic slip induces seismicity doi.org/10.1029/2025GL120861 #paperalert

Do you want to know more about the EGU TS Division?🔥⚒️🌍 Have a coffee with us and meet the team at the GA!☕️ 📆Tuesday 5 May 2026 from 11:00 to 12:00 📍EGU booth - Hall X2 See you soon!🔥

Postdoc – University of Plymouth (UK) 2-year NERC-funded LITHO-FLUCHS project (peridotite-hosted hydrothermal systems) Petrograpgy + in situ trace element & isotope analyses to link deformation, magmatism, and fluid chemistry. 📅 Deadline: 18 May 2026 👉 hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

#ecsmonday Why are thinner sandstones more fractured? Su et al. (CN) reveal inverse relationship: fracture density increases as sandbody thickness decreases in Kuqa Depression's 4.5-7.2 km deep reservoirs - stress concentrates in thinner layers doi.org/10.5194/se-17-643-2026 #paperalert

📣 PostDoc (18–24m) + PhD (3y), starting in Sept 2026 🔥 🌍 Foreland basins, stratigraphy & numerical modelling ⛰️ Aquitaine Basin / Pyrenees 🎓 Earth Sciences background required 📍 CNRS Toulouse 📆 Deadline: 3 May 2026 PostDoc: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... PhD: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

📣Meet the Early Career Scientists team of EGU TS Division for a Lunch together at the GA!🔥🌮🍕 📆6th May 2026 at the General Assembly in Vienna! 📍at Donaupark🌿🌳 ⚠️Bring your own food!🍲 📌Find us at the main entrance, we will hold this flyer so you can follow us! Can’t wait to know you! 🔥

#ecsmonday The #Caribbean isn't #rigid after all: Sauerbier et al. (NL/FR/UK) add the Southern Lesser Antilles to the growing list of #deforming Caribbean blocks, driven by #transpression along the South American #plate boundary doi.org/10.1029/2025TC009223 #intraplate #paperalert

Jobs on Friday!🔥 Two Postdoc positions at Cornell University with Prof. Esteban Gazel Topic: critical minerals & carbon sequestration using geochemistry + synthetic biology. 🔬 PhD in geosciences required 📅 Review starts April 30, 2026 ℹ️[email protected] 👉 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31890

#ecsmonday New #open-source Python tool for #fault analysis! Gayrin et al. (DE/US/IT) present #Fatbox - semi-automated fault extraction, temporal tracking, and geometric analysis from #DEMs, numerical #models, and lab #experiments doi.org/10.5194/se-17-555-2026 #structuralgeology #paperalert

Jobs on Friday! 3-year teaching post-doctoral position at the University of Potsdam Responsibilities include independent research in the fields of surface processes and active tectonics www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/pr... The application deadline is 30/04/2026. #geology #jobsonfriday #tectonics

#ecsmonday How does deep #burial permanently change #claystone? Burchartz et al. (DE) show max. burial temps from 83–169°C reduce #porosity from 18% to 5% and #permeability by 10× - but #overpressure can reverse the trend doi.org/10.5194/se-17-485-2026 #LowerSaxonyBasin #paperalert

Jobs on Friday! The Connecticut Geological Survey (northern Appalachians) has an opening for a permanent and full-time position for bedrock geologist with a specialization in mapping metamorphic rocks. www.jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/bulpr... #geology #jobsonfriday #structuralgeology

#ecsmonday How does tectonic #stress control fracture patterns during #hydration? McElwee et al. (US/JP) show that stress #orientation determines whether #branching or #spalling fractures form-guiding fluid flow in oceanic #lithosphere doi.org/10.5194/se-17-537-2026 #numericalmodeling #paperalert

New EGU TS Division Blog is out!🔥🌍⚒️ “Geomythology and Science: a long lasting yet hidden relationship” by Filippo Carboni and Tim Burbery 🔗Read the blog here: shorturl.at/WbABk

Register for the next TectoTalks!! 🔥🔥 This third session focuses on Fold-and-thrust belts and orogens in seismic reflection data⚒️🌍 📅 Date: Tomorrow⚠️⚠️24 March! 🕛 Time: 11:00 CET 🕐 Duration: 1 hour 🔗 Connection link for Registration: msteams.link/NZ3T

Jobs on Friday! Postdoc position on speleothem seismic vulnerability from FEM modeling (1-2 years) financed through SONATA BIS from the Polish National Research Center www.ncn.gov.pl) under the Associate Professor Jacek Szczygieł [email protected] skk.erecruiter.pl/Offer.aspx?o...

#ecsmonday Two blocks, one #fault: Yang et al. (CN/UK/ID) find sharp #Moho depth variations across the #Palu–Koro fault, confirming it juxtaposes distinct crustal blocks with different tectonic histories doi.org/10.5194/se-17-453-2026 #crustalstructure #tectonics #Sulawesi #paperalert

Jobs on Friday! The Faculty of Sciences at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg invites applications for a Full Professor of Exogenic Geodynamics at the Department of Geography and Geosciences. This is a full-time and permanent position. www.earthworks-jobs.com/jobpost/fau2...

March 13, 1920, died on this day British artist turned geologist Charles Lapworth - here seen with geology students on a field-trip in 1896 ...

New EGU TS Division blog is out!🔥⚒️ “Tuna and Tufo: The geology and history of the Aegadian Islands near Sicily”. 🇮🇹 Favignana, a beautiful Mediterranean island whose history is deeply rooted in its geology🌍⚒️ Read here: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ts...

#ecsmonday Strongly coupled volcanic arc 🌋 meets weakly coupled subduction 🌊: Portela et al. (ES) find slab coupling Φ≈0.2 offshore El Salvador, strengthening westward into Guatemala doi.org/10.5194/se-17-369-2026 #subduction #plateboundaries #geohazards #paperalert

Jobs on Friday! The Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Appalachian State University seeks a non-tenure track Lecturer to teach introductory and sophomore level geology and environmental science courses. More information: appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/53077

#ecsmonday Where do induced #earthquakes occur? Schwarz et al. (CH) show seismicity clusters in #intermediate-velocity zones during #geothermal stimulation — avoiding both intact rock & heavily fractured zones doi.org/10.5194/se-17-347-2026 #inducedearthquakes #EGS #fractures #paperalert

Jobs on Friday! The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA, is seeking to hire a full-time Geochronology Laboratory Manager. Please see details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... #geology #geoscience

#ecsmonday Which type of #orogenic inheritance controls #rifting? Li et al. (DE) find #structural inheritance (thrust faults) dominates margin width & breakup location, while #thermal inheritance governs timing & symmetry doi.org/10.1029/2025TC009156 #tectonics #continentalbreakup #paperalert

Finding Geothermal Energy with Structural Geologists! @driptadutta.bsky.social writes how structural geologists could help explore and develop geothermal resources and contribute to a low-carbon future. 🌱 shorturl.at/5mu9j Website: driptadutta.academic.ws

Jobs on Friday! ⚠️ The Institute of Geosciences at the University of Potsdam invites applications for a Professorship (W2) in Petrology and the dynamics of geological processes to be filled by October 1, 2028. www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/pr.... The application deadline is March 31, 2026.

Last remind!!🔥⏰ See you at 10.00!