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New book in Springer Briefs in Energy
Congratulations to Sam Carmalt !
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New paper in Nature Geoscience
According to a pluridisciplinary study under the lead of UNIGE and published today in Nature Geoscience, the largest volcanic eruption of the last millennium would not necessarily have plunged the world into a societal crisis, severe food shortages and turmoil worldwide. To arrive to this conclusion…
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Congratulations to Carlos Arbiol
Congratulations to Carlos Arbiol who was awarded the 2016 ELSTE Auguste Lombard Prize for his Master thesis: Skarn formation at Torre di Rio, Elba Island (Italy): Zonation, textural analysis and associated fluids" under the supervision of Dr. Kalin Kouzmanov.
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New research in Scientific Reports
Chelle-Michou, C., Rottier, B., Caricchi, L. & Simpson, G., Tempo of magma degassing and the genesis of porphyry copper deposits. Sci. Rep. 7, 40566; doi: 10.1038/srep40566 (2017) New numerical modelling research suggests that the size of porphyry copper deposits (our major source of copper) is pri…
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New paper in Geology
New statistical research into the record of large explosive volcanic eruptions indicates that the frequency of different eruption sizes varies between different regions on Earth. This is important to understand regional volcanic hazard and also provides an opportunity to understand how crustal and t…
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New study reveals West Antarctica's largest glacier started retreating in 1940s
Present-day thinning and retreat of Pine Island Glacier, one of the largest and fastest shrinking glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, was initiated by warming associated with strong El Niño activity during the 1940s. The new finding provides the first direct evidence and timing of glacier ret…
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Precise age for the Permian-Triassic boundary
The article "High-precision time-space correlation through coupled apatite and zircon tephrochronology: An example from the Permian-Triassic boundary in South China of Baresel et al. in Geology presents a precise temporal calibration of the Permian-Triassic boundary in S. China using U-Pb age deter…
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Congratulations to prof. Lluís Fontboté
Congratulations to prof. Lluís Fontboté awarded "Distinguished Lecturer 2016-2017 by the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)
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Nuit de la Science 2016
A big Thank You to all those, who have represented the Earth and Environmental Sciences at the lake during the Nuit de la Science in July 2016 !
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New article in Geobiology
This article presents the first evidence of the presence of intracellular amorphous granules of alkaline-earth metal (AEM) carbonates (Ca, Sr and Ba) in unicellular eukaryotes. These inclusions, named micropearls, show concentric and oscillatory zoning on a nanometric scale. Widespread in certain ph…