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⚒️ How does orogenic inheritance affect rifting and continental break-up? ⚒️

Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar

on Jan 5th 2026, 4 pm CET

with Mélanie Ballay,
Jeffrey Pollock,
Zoltán Erdős

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Past talks
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January 5th: “Sources of rift inheritance” 16:00 CET: Mélanie Ballay (University of Strasbourg, France) “Mantle inheritance and mantle-melt interaction, two key factors in the lithospheric break-up: insights from the Australia-Antarctica magma-poor rifted margins" 16:20 CET: Jeffrey Pollock (Mount Royal University, Canada) “The influence of orogenic collapse and tectonic inheritance on continental break-up: insights from seismic anisotropy in the lithospheric mantle" 16:40 CET: Zoltán Erdős (University of Potsdam, Germany) “The influence of orogenic inheritance on rift dynamics - a numerical modeling perspective”
December 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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On board the Gaia Blu research ship of the CNR Italy today in Livorno @sorcerinsar.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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On board the Gaia Blu research ship of the CNR Italy today in Livorno @sorcerinsar.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Alex Whittaker and @rehachandresh.bsky.social on @talents-dn.bsky.social fieldwork in Dobi graben if Afar Looking at a fault breccia in a normal fault zone. #tectonics #geology
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November 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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@rehachandresh.bsky.social at a sheeted dike swarm of the www.afarstratoid.com during @talents-dn.bsky.social fieldwork. @seismatters.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @gimmi-p.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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@alarosa.bsky.social new paper of dike intrusion at Erta Ale in July 2025 now out
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
Frontiers | Segmented dike intrusion linked to multi-level magma storage during and before the 2025 eruption at Erta Ale (East Africa)
IntroductionDike intrusions can assist continental rifting and plate divergence. However, our understanding of the magma dynamics during diking and the archi...
www.frontiersin.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
derekkeir.bsky.social
@alarosa.bsky.social new paper of dike intrusion at Erta Ale in July 2025 now out
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
Frontiers | Segmented dike intrusion linked to multi-level magma storage during and before the 2025 eruption at Erta Ale (East Africa)
IntroductionDike intrusions can assist continental rifting and plate divergence. However, our understanding of the magma dynamics during diking and the archi...
www.frontiersin.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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@rehachandresh.bsky.social at a sheeted dike swarm of the www.afarstratoid.com during @talents-dn.bsky.social fieldwork. @seismatters.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @gimmi-p.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
derekkeir.bsky.social
Alex Whittaker and @rehachandresh.bsky.social on @talents-dn.bsky.social fieldwork in Dobi graben if Afar Looking at a fault breccia in a normal fault zone. #tectonics #geology
@sasbrune.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @alarosa.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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⚒️ What can geodetic techniques reveal about continental rifting? ⚒️

Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar

on Dec 1st, 4 pm CET

with Sarah Stamps, @sorcerinsar.bsky.social, James Wood

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Past talks
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16:00 Sarah Stamps (Virginia Polytechnic, U.S.A.) “Open Access GNSS datasets for investigations of extensional settings” 16:20 Carolina Pagli (University of Pisa, Italy) “InSAR insights into earthquakes and volcanoes of the East African Rift” 16:40 James Wood (Imperial College London, U.K.) “Resolving coseismic and aseismic normal fault slip behaviours from InSAR time series: examples from Central Greece”
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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👇 A great collaboration with @gernon.bsky.social, Thea Hincks, Martin Palmer (all @unisouthampton.bsky.social), Chris Spencer (Queen’s University), @wattsvolcanology.bsky.social (Swansea University) and Anne Glerum (@gfz.bsky.social) 👇
gfz.bsky.social GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung @gfz.bsky.social · Nov 12
Many oceanic islands far from active plate tectonic boundaries contain materials clearly originating from continents, even though they are located in the middle of an oceanic plate. Where do the continental remnants come from? @sasbrune.bsky.social, and lead author Thomas Gernon from 1/5
A mosaic-like picture with many colours showing a thin slice of rock under a microscope. This is a fragment of the lowermost continental mantle — the crystalline roots of the continents. This is the type of material that the authors propose is stripped away and laterally transported into the oceanic mantle. (Photo: Prof. Tom Gernon (University of Southampton).)
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Hayli Gubbi - some of my photos from the Hayli Gubbi tephra sampling expedition on 24 Nov 2025 from around 10 km north of Hayli Gubbi @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @alarosa.bsky.social @wattsvolcanology.bsky.social @volckaren.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @alarosa.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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The Hayli Gubbi tephra has been sampled. These are photos from my sampling expedition on 24 Nov with the University of Semera from around 10 km north of Hayli Gubbi @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @alarosa.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Hayli Gubbi - some of my photos from the Hayli Gubbi tephra sampling expedition on 24 Nov 2025 from around 10 km north of Hayli Gubbi @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @alarosa.bsky.social @wattsvolcanology.bsky.social @volckaren.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @alarosa.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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The Hayli Gubbi tephra has been sampled. These are photos from my sampling expedition on 24 Nov with the University of Semera from around 10 km north of Hayli Gubbi @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @alarosa.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Basaltic dike in Erta Ale triggers explosive eruption in Hayli Gubbi. Read our new paper!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...
Frontiers | Segmented dike intrusion linked to multi-level magma storage during and before the 2025 eruption at Erta Ale (East Africa)
Dike intrusions can assist continental rifting and plate divergence. However, our understanding of the magma dynamics during diking and the architecture of t...
www.frontiersin.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.
November 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Advert for geophysics / tectonics PhD on the Corinth rift advertised now @unisouthampton.bsky.social
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Faulting, earthquakes and fluid flow during continental extension at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Faulting, earthquakes and fluid flow during continental extension at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Advert and application information for PhD on magma production and evolution during continental rifting @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Advert for geophysics / tectonics PhD on the Corinth rift advertised now @unisouthampton.bsky.social
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Faulting, earthquakes and fluid flow during continental extension at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Faulting, earthquakes and fluid flow during continental extension at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Advert and application information for PhD on magma production and evolution during continental rifting @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @wattsvolcanology.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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⚒️ What does rift topography reveal about tectonic, magmatic and surface processes? ⚒️

Nov 3rd, 4 pm CET
#RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
with
@rehachandresh.bsky.social
@jrarrowsmith.bsky.social
David Fernández-Blanco

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November 3rd: “Topography data and rift processes” 16:00 Reha Chandresh (University of Florence) - Spatio-temporal fault evolution patterns in magma-rich rifts using quantitative geomorphology - insights from Central Afar, Ethiopia 16:20 Ramon Arrowsmith (Arizona State University) - Topography Data and Rift Processes: mapping, landscape reconstruction, tectonic geomorphology, and topographic differencing 16:40 David Fernández-Blanco (Chinese Academy of Sciences) - Decoding continental rift mechanics with uplifted relief
October 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Interested in geothermal resources in East Africa? If so then have a read of this new paper on the use of gravity data at Corbetti volcano in Ethiopia by Simeneh Wassihun
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @robrizzo.bsky.social @rvinews.bsky.social @afardalloldrilling.bsky.social
Subsurface magmatic structure beneath the nested Awasa-Corbetti caldera complex, Main Ethiopian Rift, as determined from gravity data
The nested Awasa–Corbetti caldera complex (ACC) in the central Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) encompasses the Corbetti caldera complex, which is presently …
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October 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Interested in geothermal resources in East Africa? If so then have a read of this new paper on the use of gravity data at Corbetti volcano in Ethiopia by Simeneh Wassihun
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @robrizzo.bsky.social @rvinews.bsky.social @afardalloldrilling.bsky.social
Subsurface magmatic structure beneath the nested Awasa-Corbetti caldera complex, Main Ethiopian Rift, as determined from gravity data
The nested Awasa–Corbetti caldera complex (ACC) in the central Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) encompasses the Corbetti caldera complex, which is presently …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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When Italian airports have an edge!
August 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM