Douwe van Hinsbergen
@vanhinsbergen.bsky.social
Geology - Plate tectonics - Mountain building - Paleogeography - Mantle motions - Paleomagnetism - Science communication - @GeoTdF.bsky.social - Professor at Utrecht University
Utrecht Paleogeography model in prep!
We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!
We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Utrecht Paleogeography model in prep!
We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!
We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!
Just to give you an idea how young our field is and now far we’ve come!
![Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicp2ka5asjgkmgfdfj33vnjb5bbvk3vnyao6ju5kipxcdc23pqasm@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Just to give you an idea how young our field is and now far we’ve come!
Read the story of everyone’s favorite rock type, Piloshite!
The #TourofHolland gives us the opportunity to introduce the geologically most puzzling mountain of Europe: the Col du VAM!
The Dutch province of Drenthe is world-famous for Pleistocene ice age erratics: blocks of gneiss and granite that were transported from Sweden and Finland by giant glaciers.
The Dutch province of Drenthe is world-famous for Pleistocene ice age erratics: blocks of gneiss and granite that were transported from Sweden and Finland by giant glaciers.
October 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Read the story of everyone’s favorite rock type, Piloshite!
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🆕 🔔 New paper: "Is there a Cretan Supradetachment Basin? Insights From Detailed Mapping on Northwestern Crete (Greece)" by W. Zachariasse and @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social
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October 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🆕 🔔 New paper: "Is there a Cretan Supradetachment Basin? Insights From Detailed Mapping on Northwestern Crete (Greece)" by W. Zachariasse and @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social
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tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
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tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
Made this figure for a book chapter on tectonic reconstructions that I'm writing with Jonny Wu, using a fantastic field photograph of Joao C. Duarte, of the Telheiro Beach section in SW Portugal.
The formation, heydays, and breakup of the supercontinent Pangea caught in one photograph.
The formation, heydays, and breakup of the supercontinent Pangea caught in one photograph.
October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Made this figure for a book chapter on tectonic reconstructions that I'm writing with Jonny Wu, using a fantastic field photograph of Joao C. Duarte, of the Telheiro Beach section in SW Portugal.
The formation, heydays, and breakup of the supercontinent Pangea caught in one photograph.
The formation, heydays, and breakup of the supercontinent Pangea caught in one photograph.
We just published a paper about NW Crete, where my career started with my MSc fieldwork in 1998, and where Jan Willem Zachariasse spent the last decade making a new geological map. Published in the Diamond Open Access journal Tektonika!
tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
Is there a Cretan Supradetachment Basin? Insights From Detailed Mapping on Northwestern Crete (Greece)
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tektonika.online
September 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We just published a paper about NW Crete, where my career started with my MSc fieldwork in 1998, and where Jan Willem Zachariasse spent the last decade making a new geological map. Published in the Diamond Open Access journal Tektonika!
tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
📆 MASTER'S OPEN DAY | 8 October 2025
Are you looking for a Master's in Earth Science? We offers 4 different Masters to choose from.
Join our upcoming Online Master's Open Day on the 8th of October to learn more about your options at Utrecht University. Sign up here ➡️
www.uu.nl/en/node/1189...
Are you looking for a Master's in Earth Science? We offers 4 different Masters to choose from.
Join our upcoming Online Master's Open Day on the 8th of October to learn more about your options at Utrecht University. Sign up here ➡️
www.uu.nl/en/node/1189...
September 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
📆 MASTER'S OPEN DAY | 8 October 2025
Are you looking for a Master's in Earth Science? We offers 4 different Masters to choose from.
Join our upcoming Online Master's Open Day on the 8th of October to learn more about your options at Utrecht University. Sign up here ➡️
www.uu.nl/en/node/1189...
Are you looking for a Master's in Earth Science? We offers 4 different Masters to choose from.
Join our upcoming Online Master's Open Day on the 8th of October to learn more about your options at Utrecht University. Sign up here ➡️
www.uu.nl/en/node/1189...
In Brussels, getting ready for our ERC Synergy grant interview! Bring it on!
With Arwen Deuss, Janne Koornneef and Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte
With Arwen Deuss, Janne Koornneef and Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte
September 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In Brussels, getting ready for our ERC Synergy grant interview! Bring it on!
With Arwen Deuss, Janne Koornneef and Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte
With Arwen Deuss, Janne Koornneef and Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte
And the prize for best title of the year goes to Fabrice Cordey 😂😂
September 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
And the prize for best title of the year goes to Fabrice Cordey 😂😂
Ik heb Maarten Keulemans vanmorgen van wat uitleg voorzien voor zijn artikel over de Afghanistanbevingen van vanmorgen:
www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/w...
www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/w...
Waarom zijn er zo vaak aardbevingen in Afghanistan? ‘Het is een soort glasbak, er rammelt van alles’
Alweer is Afghanistan getroffen door een dodelijke aardbeving (situatie maandagochtend: 800 doden). Wat de beving zo verraderlijk maakt: hij kwam schijnbaar vanuit het niets.
www.volkskrant.nl
September 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Ik heb Maarten Keulemans vanmorgen van wat uitleg voorzien voor zijn artikel over de Afghanistanbevingen van vanmorgen:
www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/w...
www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/w...
The 6.0 quake in Afghanistan of this morning occurred on a shallow thrust fault, within the pile of tectonic fragments that is the Pamir-Hindu Kush mountain belt. Basically, the western part of the Tibetan Plateau 1/n
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September 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The 6.0 quake in Afghanistan of this morning occurred on a shallow thrust fault, within the pile of tectonic fragments that is the Pamir-Hindu Kush mountain belt. Basically, the western part of the Tibetan Plateau 1/n
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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So, some background for the start of @lavuelta.bsky.social…and oddly, the best way to do that is by telling you about the geology of Milano-San Remo 😃. The first days will be about the Po Plain and the Ligurian Alps! Enjoy!
www.geo-sports.org/2024/geology...
www.geo-sports.org/2024/geology...
Geology of Milan-Sanremo | Geo-Sports
We explore the geology of Milan-Sanremo with lost oceans, colliding continents plus a bit of risotto and wine.
www.geo-sports.org
August 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
So, some background for the start of @lavuelta.bsky.social…and oddly, the best way to do that is by telling you about the geology of Milano-San Remo 😃. The first days will be about the Po Plain and the Ligurian Alps! Enjoy!
www.geo-sports.org/2024/geology...
www.geo-sports.org/2024/geology...
Used AI again to develop a piece I wrote on piano into a song. Quite like it.
suno.com/song/4d39640...
suno.com/song/4d39640...
The Quiet and the Storm
Listen and make your own on Suno.
suno.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Used AI again to develop a piece I wrote on piano into a song. Quite like it.
suno.com/song/4d39640...
suno.com/song/4d39640...
Ok, so I wasn’t a fan of AI, in many cases, it kills creativity and originality. But I’ll admit I like the applications to music.
Since my teenage years, I’ve written songs, and recorded them with some band (e.g. Sans Gene). But I’m not a great singer, and play mediocre guitar and piano.
Since my teenage years, I’ve written songs, and recorded them with some band (e.g. Sans Gene). But I’m not a great singer, and play mediocre guitar and piano.
Sans Gêne
Artist · 0 monthly listeners.
open.spotify.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ok, so I wasn’t a fan of AI, in many cases, it kills creativity and originality. But I’ll admit I like the applications to music.
Since my teenage years, I’ve written songs, and recorded them with some band (e.g. Sans Gene). But I’m not a great singer, and play mediocre guitar and piano.
Since my teenage years, I’ve written songs, and recorded them with some band (e.g. Sans Gene). But I’m not a great singer, and play mediocre guitar and piano.
Two years ago, brilliant Utrecht University PhD student Gerrit Müller organized a workshop about the role of weathering in the CO2 cycle. He invited scientists from all over to debate the different parts of the cycle, and merged it jnto this review paper, published today in Nature Geoscience!
Earth’s silicate weathering continuum - Nature Geoscience
Chemical weathering of silicate rocks occurs along a continuum from terrestrial to marine environments.
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Two years ago, brilliant Utrecht University PhD student Gerrit Müller organized a workshop about the role of weathering in the CO2 cycle. He invited scientists from all over to debate the different parts of the cycle, and merged it jnto this review paper, published today in Nature Geoscience!
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The Classica San Sebastian will race along the Basque North Coast! @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social made some clips about the beautiful geological goodies of the Basque Country!
The trace fossils in the Black Flysch for instance!
youtu.be/BWGPKmuo6Zw?...
The trace fossils in the Black Flysch for instance!
youtu.be/BWGPKmuo6Zw?...
Trace fossils in the rocks along Stage 3 of the 2023 Tour de France!
YouTube video by Geo-Sports - The Geology of Sports Events
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August 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Classica San Sebastian will race along the Basque North Coast! @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social made some clips about the beautiful geological goodies of the Basque Country!
The trace fossils in the Black Flysch for instance!
youtu.be/BWGPKmuo6Zw?...
The trace fossils in the Black Flysch for instance!
youtu.be/BWGPKmuo6Zw?...
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The Tour de France Femmes is climbing the Alps! Did you know the Alps are made of cheese?
@vanhinsbergen.bsky.social explains in this clip!
youtu.be/7wkFVQaMdo8?...
@vanhinsbergen.bsky.social explains in this clip!
youtu.be/7wkFVQaMdo8?...
GeoTdF 2023 - Stage 14: The Alps are made of Cheese
YouTube video by Geo-Sports - The Geology of Sports Events
youtu.be
August 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The Tour de France Femmes is climbing the Alps! Did you know the Alps are made of cheese?
@vanhinsbergen.bsky.social explains in this clip!
youtu.be/7wkFVQaMdo8?...
@vanhinsbergen.bsky.social explains in this clip!
youtu.be/7wkFVQaMdo8?...
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The TdFF races through the Devonian of the northern Massif Central today. Marj and @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social imagined racing a Tour stage back then, 400 million years ago, in this ‘23 clip! 🐟
youtu.be/VFXoz3pSPec?...
youtu.be/VFXoz3pSPec?...
GeoTdF 2023 - Stage 12. Fishing in the Devonian
YouTube video by Geo-Sports - The Geology of Sports Events
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July 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The TdFF races through the Devonian of the northern Massif Central today. Marj and @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social imagined racing a Tour stage back then, 400 million years ago, in this ‘23 clip! 🐟
youtu.be/VFXoz3pSPec?...
youtu.be/VFXoz3pSPec?...
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Today's M8.8 (orange circle) and the 1952 M9.0 epicentral locations, separated by only 73 years. I wouldn't have thought that possible! Average recurrence intervals don't tell the full story. ⚒️
July 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Today's M8.8 (orange circle) and the 1952 M9.0 epicentral locations, separated by only 73 years. I wouldn't have thought that possible! Average recurrence intervals don't tell the full story. ⚒️
8.8 earthquake at the Kamchatka subduction zone caused a tsunami in Russia that is about to hit Hawai’i too.
This is a quake that is close to the magnitude of the devastating Japan quake of 15 years ago. And the same tectonic cause. Doesn’t look good…
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
This is a quake that is close to the magnitude of the devastating Japan quake of 15 years ago. And the same tectonic cause. Doesn’t look good…
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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July 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
8.8 earthquake at the Kamchatka subduction zone caused a tsunami in Russia that is about to hit Hawai’i too.
This is a quake that is close to the magnitude of the devastating Japan quake of 15 years ago. And the same tectonic cause. Doesn’t look good…
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
This is a quake that is close to the magnitude of the devastating Japan quake of 15 years ago. And the same tectonic cause. Doesn’t look good…
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Science Magazine has retracted this paper of Felisa Wolfe-Simon, and that is beyond rediculous, and a very dangerous move in this time of political interference in science.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Widely panned arsenic life paper gets retracted—15 years after brouhaha
Opinions are mixed on the retraction, and the authors continue to defend their work.
arstechnica.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Science Magazine has retracted this paper of Felisa Wolfe-Simon, and that is beyond rediculous, and a very dangerous move in this time of political interference in science.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Racing through the Jura today! In ‘23 and ‘24 we made two clips about its geological wonders!
Like dinosaur footprints!
youtu.be/N7hmLLasZrk?...
Like dinosaur footprints!
youtu.be/N7hmLLasZrk?...
GeoTdF 2023 - Etappe 19. With a trace of dinosaur
YouTube video by Geo-Sports - The Geology of Sports Events
youtu.be
July 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Racing through the Jura today! In ‘23 and ‘24 we made two clips about its geological wonders!
Like dinosaur footprints!
youtu.be/N7hmLLasZrk?...
Like dinosaur footprints!
youtu.be/N7hmLLasZrk?...
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And why is the Jura such a strange, croissant-shaped mountain belt in front of the Alps? Marj will tell you!
youtu.be/CMeyN5AMGAU?...
youtu.be/CMeyN5AMGAU?...
TDFF 2024 - Stage 6: How the Jurassic got its name
YouTube video by Geo-Sports - The Geology of Sports Events
youtu.be
July 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
And why is the Jura such a strange, croissant-shaped mountain belt in front of the Alps? Marj will tell you!
youtu.be/CMeyN5AMGAU?...
youtu.be/CMeyN5AMGAU?...
L-tectonite. A metamorphic rock, in this case of magmatic origin, with a pure linear fabric.
Loose pebble, derived from the Ivrea body’s magmatic crust, NW Italy.
Loose pebble, derived from the Ivrea body’s magmatic crust, NW Italy.
July 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
L-tectonite. A metamorphic rock, in this case of magmatic origin, with a pure linear fabric.
Loose pebble, derived from the Ivrea body’s magmatic crust, NW Italy.
Loose pebble, derived from the Ivrea body’s magmatic crust, NW Italy.