Douwe van Hinsbergen
@vanhinsbergen.bsky.social
Geology - Plate tectonics - Mountain building - Paleogeography - Mantle motions - Paleomagnetism - Science communication - @GeoTdF.bsky.social - Professor at Utrecht University
This is the reconstruction that comes with our new Nature Communications Earth & Environment paper on Caribbean biogeography.
With Leny Montheil, Mélody Philippon, Franck Audemard, Lydian Boschman, Richard Wessels, Sylvie Leroy et al
#UtrechtPaleogeographicModel
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
With Leny Montheil, Mélody Philippon, Franck Audemard, Lydian Boschman, Richard Wessels, Sylvie Leroy et al
#UtrechtPaleogeographicModel
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is the reconstruction that comes with our new Nature Communications Earth & Environment paper on Caribbean biogeography.
With Leny Montheil, Mélody Philippon, Franck Audemard, Lydian Boschman, Richard Wessels, Sylvie Leroy et al
#UtrechtPaleogeographicModel
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
With Leny Montheil, Mélody Philippon, Franck Audemard, Lydian Boschman, Richard Wessels, Sylvie Leroy et al
#UtrechtPaleogeographicModel
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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!
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.
📆 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...
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 😂😂
The quake took place just east of the Kabul Block, which is a part of the Indian Plate that got squeezed northward into Asia. The quake seems to occur around the Shyok Suture, between the Kohistan and Nurestan blocks. Tens of million years old faults that became reactivated?
September 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The quake took place just east of the Kabul Block, which is a part of the Indian Plate that got squeezed northward into Asia. The quake seems to occur around the Shyok Suture, between the Kohistan and Nurestan blocks. Tens of million years old faults that became reactivated?
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.
Top of Mont Aigoual with Roi🚴🚴
May 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Top of Mont Aigoual with Roi🚴🚴
Good to be back in Le Pompidou for our first-year mapping fieldwork! #massifcentral #vivelafrance @uugeo.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Good to be back in Le Pompidou for our first-year mapping fieldwork! #massifcentral #vivelafrance @uugeo.bsky.social
Hier, ander kaartje, zelfde punt.
May 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Hier, ander kaartje, zelfde punt.
This image cannot be shared enough. This is what our country would look like if we stop pumping water out of our polders. And in the meantime, we have closed all but one earth science departments, because it’s a little but more expensive than the average study. What could possibly go wrong.
May 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This image cannot be shared enough. This is what our country would look like if we stop pumping water out of our polders. And in the meantime, we have closed all but one earth science departments, because it’s a little but more expensive than the average study. What could possibly go wrong.
Common watersnake
April 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Common watersnake
Hornblende megacrystals? In metabasalt, Maryland eastcoast, Chesapeak Bay.
April 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Hornblende megacrystals? In metabasalt, Maryland eastcoast, Chesapeak Bay.
One of the biggest earthquake hazards of Europe is in the sea of Marmara, the sea south of the major city of Istanbul. We've been expecting earthquakes there since the 1999 Izmit quake. Today's 6.2 Earthquake occurred on the edge of the fault zone making that sea. So far, no major damage reported.
April 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
One of the biggest earthquake hazards of Europe is in the sea of Marmara, the sea south of the major city of Istanbul. We've been expecting earthquakes there since the 1999 Izmit quake. Today's 6.2 Earthquake occurred on the edge of the fault zone making that sea. So far, no major damage reported.
Visiting an old German iron mine. Really impressive. Mining of a tilted stratigraphic horizon of iron oolite.
April 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Visiting an old German iron mine. Really impressive. Mining of a tilted stratigraphic horizon of iron oolite.
In between all the madness, there’s still time for a geological excursion! Some good things don’t change 🤠
April 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
In between all the madness, there’s still time for a geological excursion! Some good things don’t change 🤠
Solar eclipse!
March 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Solar eclipse!
In the Myanmar region, India is moving NNE relative to Eurasia, so highly oblique along the plate boundary. This oblique motion is 'partitioned' over two faults: the northward component is taken up at Sagaing (with today's quake), the eastward component in the Indo-Burman mountains to the west 2/3
March 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
In the Myanmar region, India is moving NNE relative to Eurasia, so highly oblique along the plate boundary. This oblique motion is 'partitioned' over two faults: the northward component is taken up at Sagaing (with today's quake), the eastward component in the Indo-Burman mountains to the west 2/3
Hey #Geoscience Bluesky, does anyone have an idea what this creature might be? Context unknown…
March 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Hey #Geoscience Bluesky, does anyone have an idea what this creature might be? Context unknown…
Congratulations @alisstostrome.bsky.social, with your prize of Best Teacher Talent of Utrecht University 2025! Very much deserved!
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March 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Congratulations @alisstostrome.bsky.social, with your prize of Best Teacher Talent of Utrecht University 2025! Very much deserved!
🥳👍
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After two years of drawing 1000 polygons, the updated plate reconstruction behind Paleolatitude.org is ready, which includes all major orogenic belts (except Alaska & Canadian Cordillera, still working on that) back to 320 Ma. Ideal for paleobiology studies! DM if you want to test!
February 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
After two years of drawing 1000 polygons, the updated plate reconstruction behind Paleolatitude.org is ready, which includes all major orogenic belts (except Alaska & Canadian Cordillera, still working on that) back to 320 Ma. Ideal for paleobiology studies! DM if you want to test!
At the film location of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. #spaghetti
February 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
At the film location of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. #spaghetti
The desert of Tabernas - home to the Spaghetti Western, and one of the seaways that uplifted to make the Mediterranean dry up 6 million years ago. 😍 #geoscience
February 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The desert of Tabernas - home to the Spaghetti Western, and one of the seaways that uplifted to make the Mediterranean dry up 6 million years ago. 😍 #geoscience
Garnet hunting in the Hoyazo crater 😃
February 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Garnet hunting in the Hoyazo crater 😃