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Frank Zwaan
@geozwaan.bsky.social
Enthusiastic structural geologist & tectonic modeller, currently doing numerical simulation of mantle exhumation and natural hydrogen (H2) generation at @unil.bsky.social (Switzerland).
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🚨 Interested in rift tectonics and/or the East African Rift System? ⚒️ 🌍

Join us on Tuesday 7 Oct (12:30 CEST) for an EPOS virtual coffee break chat about some cool new research on the development of the Main Ethiopian Rift 😃

More info below, at: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
🌍☕ 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬? We’re excited to invite… | European Plate Observing System
🌍☕ 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬? We’re excited to invite you to a 15-minute virtual coffee break with Frank Zwaan of the Université de La...
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September 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🚨 Interested in rift tectonics and/or the East African Rift System? ⚒️ 🌍

Join us on Tuesday 7 Oct (12:30 CEST) for an EPOS virtual coffee break chat about some cool new research on the development of the Main Ethiopian Rift 😃

More info below, at: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
🌍☕ 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬? We’re excited to invite… | European Plate Observing System
🌍☕ 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬? We’re excited to invite you to a 15-minute virtual coffee break with Frank Zwaan of the Université de La...
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September 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🚨 New paper alert! ⚒️

Are you interested in rift tectonics and the East African Rift?

Check out how lineaments that are highly oblique to the Main Ethiopian Rift can still deform via local strain reorientation. 😃

Link to our new @wearetektonika.bsky.social paper: tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
August 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Interested in how we can use geodynamic simulations for resource exploration? ⚒️

I wrote a blog for @ciggeodynamics.bsky.social, on simulating natural H2 gas resource development in nature 😃

The blog: geodynamics.org/highlight-au...

The original Science Advances paper: doi.org/10.1126/scia...
August 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
📢New paper alert⚒️!

Are you into tectonics, rifting, and basin development?

Check out the work by Cédric Bulois & colleagues on rift propagation in the Porcupine Basin, recently published in @BasinResearch 😃

Link: doi.org/10.1111/bre....
August 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
⚒️ Are you at #EGU25 and interested in natural H2 (a potential green energy for the future), check out my talk in session GD6.1 this afternoon (14:15, room K1)! 😃

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April 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
⚒️ If you are at #EGU25 and curious about laboratory modelling of plate tectonics, join us this evening (19:00-20:00, in room -2.82) for the Tectonic Modelling 101 short course (including a live model demonstration!) 😃

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

@ts.egu.eu
April 30, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Reposted by Frank Zwaan
EGUTS news alert ⚠️
Are you attending the EGU25?
Are you interested in structural geology and tectonics?
Here are all the TS events during the meeting.
Join us!😀
April 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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📢 Tectonic Modelling Tuesday #110 - with numerical work by Guangliang Wu and colleagues (from University of Texas at Austin & University of Memphis), who explored modes of continental extension in a crustal wedge 😃

More info in their 2015 EPSL paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...
April 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
⚒️ The recording of the H2 webinar I did with the AAPG Petroleum Structure / Geomechanics Division is now available online 😃 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdWI...
March 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
📢 Brand new paper alert! ⚒️

Are you interested in natural hydrogen gas (H2), a potential green energy source? 😃

Check out our new paper in AAAS' Science Advances, in which we show that natural H2 exploration should focus on mountain ranges.

Link:
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
February 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reposted by Frank Zwaan
🚨 Interested in #naturalhydrogen (H2), a potential future green energy source? ⚒️

At the AAPG Petroleum Structure / Geomechanics Division webinar of 18 February, I will show how numerical models can guide natural H2 exploration efforts 😃

More info: shorturl.at/hkXDI

Register here: lnkd.in/gju9idrr
AAPG Petroleum Structure and Geomechanics Division on LinkedIn: #aapg #psgd #hydrogen #newenergies #greenenergy #structuralgeology…
Join us Tuesday, February 18th for our monthly webinar! Our speaker will be Dr. Frank Zwaan speaking on "Natural H2 Gas: A Potential Green Energy Source in…
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February 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🚨 Interested in #naturalhydrogen (H2), a potential future green energy source? ⚒️

At the AAPG Petroleum Structure / Geomechanics Division webinar of 18 February, I will show how numerical models can guide natural H2 exploration efforts 😃

More info: shorturl.at/hkXDI

Register here: lnkd.in/gju9idrr
AAPG Petroleum Structure and Geomechanics Division on LinkedIn: #aapg #psgd #hydrogen #newenergies #greenenergy #structuralgeology…
Join us Tuesday, February 18th for our monthly webinar! Our speaker will be Dr. Frank Zwaan speaking on "Natural H2 Gas: A Potential Green Energy Source in…
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February 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Yesterday was my first work day at the ISTE @unil.bsky.social! ⚒️

I will continue the cool numerical geodynamics modelling and natural H2 work I started at @gfz.bsky.social, with a new project (MENHIR) funded by a UNIL FGE grant.

Excited for ongoing and new collabs—stay tuned! 😃
February 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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📢Are you working on rifting and will you attend #EGU25? ⚒️

We will do a cool session on rift (evolution) and would much welcome your abstract!

Invited talks by: Eleonora Rivalta & @sasbrune.bsky.social

Details: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

@eurogeosciences.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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How do deformation, erosion, and precipitation interact during orogenic growth? ⚒️

Find out in this new study led by Xiaoping Yuan where we used a 3-code coupling between #ASPECT, #FASTSCAPE, and #LFPM.

Article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

@natureportfolio.bsky.social @gfz.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 5:29 PM
🚨 Interested in Wilson Cycle processes? ⚒️
Submit an abstract to our #EGU25 dual session!

Part I: from Continent to Ocean
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Part 2: from Ocean to Orogen
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

See you in Vienna!😃

@eurogeosciences.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 11:02 AM
📢Are you working on rifting and will you attend #EGU25? ⚒️

We will do a cool session on rift (evolution) and would much welcome your abstract!

Invited talks by: Eleonora Rivalta & @sasbrune.bsky.social

Details: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

@eurogeosciences.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 11:22 AM
📢Reminder for tomorrow's MSL seminar (Tue 26 Nov 2024, 14:00-15:00 CET) ⚒️

Topic: Hot and salty - Energy strategies and the modelling of evaporite provinces

Speakers:
> Juan Soto
> Pedro Ramirez-Perez

Subscribe (and get the Zoom link sent to you): laposta.nl/f/sso9snbeabrb
November 25, 2024 at 8:52 AM
📢Upcoming MSL seminar on Tue 26 Nov 2024 (14:00-15:00 CET) 😃

Topic: Hot and salty - Energy strategies and the modelling of evaporite provinces ⚒️

Speakers:
> Juan Sot
> Pedro Ramirez-Perez

Subscribe (and get the Zoom
link sent to you later via email): laposta.nl/f/sso9snbeabrb
November 14, 2024 at 9:26 AM
📢 Paper alert! ⚒️

Interested in rifting/lower crustal flow?

Timothy Schmid et al. used Digital Volume Correlation analysis on 3D CT-scanned analogue models to know more 😃

Check out our new #OpenAccess paper published in @wearetektonika.bsky.social, link: tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
November 5, 2024 at 1:55 PM
📢 Paper alert!

Are you interested in rifting and continental break-up processes, but also in associated natural hazards and geo-resources, and where future rift research may go?

Check out our new #OpenAccess paper in @eurogeosciences.bsky.social's Solid Earth
! 😃

Link: doi.org/10.5194/se-1...
August 13, 2024 at 10:30 AM
📢 Paper alert!

Are you into rifting?

Check out our new study in Geology: we explore the delayed impact of mantle-controlled deformation during early-stage rifting by combining data from the NE Atlantic & analog tectonic models 😃

Paper: doi.org/10.1130/G523...
July 20, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Upcoming MSL seminar on Tuesday 11 June 2024 (16:00-17:00 CEST) 😃

Topic: Solar System Science Invited speakers:

> Foteini Vervelidou (IPGP, France)
> Kamini Manick (ESA, UK)

Subscribe (and get the Zoom link sent to you) via this link: laposta.nl/f/sso9snbeabrb
June 2, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Reposted by Frank Zwaan
Natural hydrogen - how much is generated in rifts and rifted margins? ⚒️

Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Marta Pérez-Gussinyé, Frank Zwaan, Gabriel Pasquet

Monday, March 4th, 4pm CET

Register: uni-potsdam.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Past talks: www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...
February 27, 2024 at 7:46 AM