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TS Tectonics and Structural Geology Division on Tectonics and Structural Geology

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Division on Tectonics and Structural Geology
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Division on Tectonics and Structural Geology

President: Paola Vannucchi (Emailts@egu.eu)
Deputy President: João C. Duarte (Email)
ECS Representative: Sascha Zertani (Emailecs-ts@egu.eu)

The Division on Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS) investigates rock deformation at all scales with the aim to decipher its complex relationships with Earth dynamics. We use natural observations, including mapping, remote sensing and seismics, and experimental methods. The division is highly interdisciplinary, with strong ties with other EGU divisions including GD, EMRP, SM, SSP, GM, G, and GMPV.

Latest posts from the TS blog

TS Must Read – 3D seismic analysis of the structure and evolution of a salt-influenced normal fault zone: a test of competing fault growth models, Jackson & Rotevatn (2013)

In this Must Read paper “3D seismic analysis of the structure and evolution of a salt-influenced normal fault zone: a test of competing fault growth models (2013)”, by Christopher A-L. Jackson and Atle Rotevatn used detailed 3D seismic reflection data from the Suez Rift, Egypt, to gain a better understanding of the structural evolution of normal faults. Specifically, the paper shows that isolated and coherent fault growth models occur simultaneously during the growth and linkage of normal fault segments across …

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Geology Bites: Podcast conversations about geology with researchers making key contributions to our understanding of the Earth and the Solar System

As readers of this blog know, geology is an awe-inspiring subject, dealing as it does with immensely powerful forces operating on time scales, pressures, and temperatures we can barely fathom. It is geological processes that are responsible for the continents, oceans, mountain ranges, indeed for all the landscapes we see around us. Even though many of these processes operate over deep time and deep within the Earth, ingenious researchers have been able to discover a great deal about them. We …

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Inverted River Channels in Alcaniz: Insights into Mars’ Fluvial History

This edition of ‘Features from the field’ is brought to you by Faris Beg, a masters student on the EU Erasmus Mundus program. He will be talking about exhumed river channels in Alcaniz, Spain. Did you know one of the most striking pieces of evidence for the existence of water on ancient Mars comes from certain geological features cropped out from underneath the Earth surface as a result of erosion? We call them exhumed or inverted river bodies. In planetary …

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TS Must-Read – Peron-Pinvidic et al. (2013) Structural comparison of archetypal Atlantic rifted margins: A review of observations and concepts

Rifted margins are regions at the transition from oceanic to continental crust, formed by the stretching and thinning of the Earth’s lithosphere before the creation of new ocean basins. The study focused on three key transects across Atlantic rifted margins. In their 2013 article in Marine and Petroleum Geology, Peron-Pinvidic et al. present a comparative analysis of the architecture of various rifted margins. The authors highlight key structural features, tectonic processes, and conceptual models, with the aim to elucidate the …

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Recent awardees

Yann Klinger

Yann Klinger

  • 2024
  • Stephan Mueller Medal

The 2024 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Yann Klinger for his exceptional interdisciplinary contribution to the fields of seismology and palaeo-seismology, in particular, for his groundbreaking development of space seismology.

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Julia Schmitz

Julia Schmitz

  • 2024
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Julia Schmitz Fabric analyses of fine-grained glacier salt (Kuh-e-Namak, Dashti, southern Iran)

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Patrick Bianchi

Patrick Bianchi

  • 2024
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Patrick Bianchi Exploring fault preparation and earthquake nucleation from the laboratory

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Current issue of the EGU newsletter

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In our January issue we take a look at the range of ways that geochemistry, geophysics, mineralogy, petrology and other fundamental geoscience researchers can move their careers in unexpected directions, and learn about how an interdisciplinary perspective took outgoing ERE Division President Viktor Bruckman from forestry to policy!

EGU's Simon Clark is here to help you get started on making personal changes in 2025, in a way that is sustainable, and don't forget to have your say on how we run the Early Career Scientist activities, with the 2025 ECS Survey.

If you need financial support to attend EGU25 due to care-giving responsibilities, a disability, career status or another reason, apply for our new EDI Participation Support by 23 February 2025. The EGU25 Photo Competition is open until 31 March, submit your image to win free registration to EGU26! All this and much more in this month's Loupe!

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