Because the Strait of Hormuz and the geological forces that created it are in the news, I present hot-off-the-presses work by @aramfathian.bsky.social, @activefaults.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

A vanished Holocene lake once covered Central Iran, a region now defined by deserts. Lake level fell not in one collapse, but through climate-driven pulses of expansion and contraction. Alexander the Great’s route skirts its margins. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Zagros orogen does not end at the shoreline. Our study shows that active deformation continues offshore, beneath the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf. Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article alert: Onshore-offshore evidence for active tectonics and the propagation of the Zagros deformation front into the Persian Gulf by @aramfathian.bsky.social @activefaults.bsky.social and friends 🧪⚒️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is a highly useful thread outlining practical tips and unwritten rules in academic applications. Details that are often overlooked but are genuinely critical for navigating each stage of the process. If you are applying, read carefully and keep this in mind as you prepare your materials. 📌📄

Strongly recommend this opportunity with the waterSHED Lab. An excellent place to do graduate or postdoc research. 🌊🏔️

On FB, Yukon Geological Survey posted some spectacular photos of landslides & snow avalanches triggered by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Dec 6 in the St Elias Mountains. Here are some of my favs. @geocron.bsky.social @theronfinley.bsky.social @davepetley.bsky.social @ksvenenvig.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

New paper today in @science.org focused on unraveling the chain of events that led to the 2023 Teesta disaster, which resulted in about 130 people either dead or missing in Sikkim, India. Short thread to follow. 🧪⚒️ doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Glad to share our paper published in the journal “Science” titled “The Sikkim flood of October 2023: Drivers, causes and impacts of a multihazard cascade.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Analogue” #InSAR forward modeling

🧪⚒️ A M5.6 earthquake struck southern Iran earlier today, causing dozens of injuries and damaging hundreds of homes. This was an unusual earthquake: it occurred on a nearly horizontal fault. But while earthquakes like this are rare, this hazardous fault is well known to geologists!

Bluesky debut—let’s shake things up (pun intended)! 🌍💥 Today’s M5.6 EQ in SW Iran highlights hazards of sub-horizontal detachment faults, introduced in studies like Barnhart et al. (2018). Fathian et al. (2021) show EQs along both mid-crustal décollement and upper crustal detachment in Zagros.