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).
Based on analogue tectonic experiments, we propose that local strain reorientation (made possible by the oblique orientation of the Main Ethiopian Rift itself) can enable the deformation along these lineaments that is observed in nature.
August 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Based on analogue tectonic experiments, we propose that local strain reorientation (made possible by the oblique orientation of the Main Ethiopian Rift itself) can enable the deformation along these lineaments that is observed in nature.
The question is how lineaments that are highly oblique to the Main Ethiopian Rift are still able to localize deformation, despite being oriented rather unfavorably with respect to regional plate motion directions (they should not be active!?).
August 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The question is how lineaments that are highly oblique to the Main Ethiopian Rift are still able to localize deformation, despite being oriented rather unfavorably with respect to regional plate motion directions (they should not be active!?).
🚨 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...
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
🚨 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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
📢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....
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
📢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....
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....
⚒️ 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
⚒️ 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)! 😃
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...
⚒️ 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!) 😃
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@ts.egu.eu
April 30, 2025 at 5:40 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
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@ts.egu.eu
⚒️ Want to know more about our natural H2? Join us tomorrow (13 March, 16:00 CET) for the ENERGY NEW webinar where I will present about this recently published research (and more) 😃
Details on the webinar here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Details on the webinar here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
March 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
⚒️ Want to know more about our natural H2? Join us tomorrow (13 March, 16:00 CET) for the ENERGY NEW webinar where I will present about this recently published research (and more) 😃
Details on the webinar here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Details on the webinar here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
I was also a visiting scientist at @unifr.bsky.social during part of the work done for this publication, and will continue my research in Switzerland, funded through a @fgse-unil.bsky.social grant (stay tuned) 😃
February 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I was also a visiting scientist at @unifr.bsky.social during part of the work done for this publication, and will continue my research in Switzerland, funded through a @fgse-unil.bsky.social grant (stay tuned) 😃
A big thank you to my co-authors @sasbrune.bsky.social, Anne Glerum, Dylan Vasey, John Naliboff, Giantero Manatschal & Eric C. Gaucher for their help and support during this exciting research😃
Many thanks also to @gfz.bsky.social colleagues, reviewers, the paper editor, and the CIG.
Many thanks also to @gfz.bsky.social colleagues, reviewers, the paper editor, and the CIG.
February 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A big thank you to my co-authors @sasbrune.bsky.social, Anne Glerum, Dylan Vasey, John Naliboff, Giantero Manatschal & Eric C. Gaucher for their help and support during this exciting research😃
Many thanks also to @gfz.bsky.social colleagues, reviewers, the paper editor, and the CIG.
Many thanks also to @gfz.bsky.social colleagues, reviewers, the paper editor, and the CIG.
Our work shows the importance of understanding the geodynamic factors that control the distribution of natural resources (and the use of modelling work).
Such insights are of particular importance for the energy transition, given the vast amounts of resources we will need.
Such insights are of particular importance for the energy transition, given the vast amounts of resources we will need.
February 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Our work shows the importance of understanding the geodynamic factors that control the distribution of natural resources (and the use of modelling work).
Such insights are of particular importance for the energy transition, given the vast amounts of resources we will need.
Such insights are of particular importance for the energy transition, given the vast amounts of resources we will need.
We propose an orogenic natural H2 system concept, which shows the key ingredients for the successful development of natural H2 accumulations that can be drilled and explored. Alternatively, we may also consider directly drilling into the serpentinizing mantle rocks themselves.
February 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We propose an orogenic natural H2 system concept, which shows the key ingredients for the successful development of natural H2 accumulations that can be drilled and explored. Alternatively, we may also consider directly drilling into the serpentinizing mantle rocks themselves.
Combined with the much more likely presence of reservoir rocks that would allow for H2 accumulation during bulk serpentinization (in contrast to deep marine rift basins), mountain ranges are the place to be for natural H2 exploration!
February 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Combined with the much more likely presence of reservoir rocks that would allow for H2 accumulation during bulk serpentinization (in contrast to deep marine rift basins), mountain ranges are the place to be for natural H2 exploration!
Serpentinization-related H2 generation is best known from rifted margins and spreading ridged
Yet, we surprisingly find that yearly serpentinization capacity (and thus natural H2 generation capacity) can be up to 20x higher during mountain building than during initial rifting.
Yet, we surprisingly find that yearly serpentinization capacity (and thus natural H2 generation capacity) can be up to 20x higher during mountain building than during initial rifting.
February 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Serpentinization-related H2 generation is best known from rifted margins and spreading ridged
Yet, we surprisingly find that yearly serpentinization capacity (and thus natural H2 generation capacity) can be up to 20x higher during mountain building than during initial rifting.
Yet, we surprisingly find that yearly serpentinization capacity (and thus natural H2 generation capacity) can be up to 20x higher during mountain building than during initial rifting.
A promising natural H2 source is the serpentinization of exhumed mantle material as it reacts with water.
Using state-of-the-art geodynamic modelling methods, we trace where serpentinization is likely to occur during rifting and subsequent basin inversion / mountain building.
Using state-of-the-art geodynamic modelling methods, we trace where serpentinization is likely to occur during rifting and subsequent basin inversion / mountain building.
February 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A promising natural H2 source is the serpentinization of exhumed mantle material as it reacts with water.
Using state-of-the-art geodynamic modelling methods, we trace where serpentinization is likely to occur during rifting and subsequent basin inversion / mountain building.
Using state-of-the-art geodynamic modelling methods, we trace where serpentinization is likely to occur during rifting and subsequent basin inversion / mountain building.
📢 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...
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
📢 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...
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...
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! 😃
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
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! 😃
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! 😃
🚨 Interested in Wilson Cycle processes? ⚒️
Submit an abstract to our #EGU25 dual session!
Part I: from Continent to Ocean
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Part 2: from Ocean to Orogen
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See you in Vienna!😃
@eurogeosciences.bsky.social
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
🚨 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
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
📢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
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
📢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
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
📢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
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
📢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
Topic: Hot and salty - Energy strategies and the modelling of evaporite provinces
Speakers:
> Juan Soto
> Pedro Ramirez-Perez
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📢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
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
📢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
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
📢 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...
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! ⚒️
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...
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...
It was great working on this paper with Tiago Alves, Patricia Cadenas, Mohameh Gouiza, Jordan Phethean, @sasbrune.bsky.social, and Anne Glerum! 😃
Thanks also to our funders (GFZ Potsdam, ERC, Petrobras, Cardiff Uni, Spain's ministery of Science & Innovation), the editor, reviewers & the SE team.
Thanks also to our funders (GFZ Potsdam, ERC, Petrobras, Cardiff Uni, Spain's ministery of Science & Innovation), the editor, reviewers & the SE team.
August 13, 2024 at 10:33 AM
It was great working on this paper with Tiago Alves, Patricia Cadenas, Mohameh Gouiza, Jordan Phethean, @sasbrune.bsky.social, and Anne Glerum! 😃
Thanks also to our funders (GFZ Potsdam, ERC, Petrobras, Cardiff Uni, Spain's ministery of Science & Innovation), the editor, reviewers & the SE team.
Thanks also to our funders (GFZ Potsdam, ERC, Petrobras, Cardiff Uni, Spain's ministery of Science & Innovation), the editor, reviewers & the SE team.
📢 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...
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 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...
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...
A big thank you to my co-authors, as well as the editor & reviewers! 😃
Original models (Zwaan & al. 2022 in Bas Res, doi.org/10.1111/bre....) were done @unibern.bsky.social
& funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social
CNRS UMR 7063 ITES / M6 consortium at @unistra.fr paid for #OpenAccess
Original models (Zwaan & al. 2022 in Bas Res, doi.org/10.1111/bre....) were done @unibern.bsky.social
& funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social
CNRS UMR 7063 ITES / M6 consortium at @unistra.fr paid for #OpenAccess
July 20, 2024 at 6:23 PM
A big thank you to my co-authors, as well as the editor & reviewers! 😃
Original models (Zwaan & al. 2022 in Bas Res, doi.org/10.1111/bre....) were done @unibern.bsky.social
& funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social
CNRS UMR 7063 ITES / M6 consortium at @unistra.fr paid for #OpenAccess
Original models (Zwaan & al. 2022 in Bas Res, doi.org/10.1111/bre....) were done @unibern.bsky.social
& funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social
CNRS UMR 7063 ITES / M6 consortium at @unistra.fr paid for #OpenAccess