• Geomorphology
• posted 1 day ago

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. Interview with Tamara Aránguiz-Rago, PhD student, University of Washington. Email: tarangui@uw.edu. Can you describe in simple terms how strike-slip faults work? Strike-slip faults are fractures in the Earth’s crust where blocks of land slide past one another horizontally. When these fractures cut through the entire lithosphere, they become …

Read more

• GeoLog – EGU official blog
• posted 1 day ago

Hello Silke and welcome to GeoTalk! Before we dig into your topic of expertise, could you introduce yourself to our readers? Hello, Simon. My name is Silke Asche, and I am a chemist in astrobiology and part of the Agnostic Biosignature Collective led by Dr Heather Graham at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight enter. My Ph.D. focused on Origins of Life (OoL) research and the automation of such experiments. During that time, it became clear to me that there was a …

Read more

• Tectonics and Structural Geology
• posted 1 day ago

Whether you are a student, educator, or industry professional, you have likely encountered the myriad conventions used for recording geological orientations. For students, this landscape can be perplexing; for professionals, it may lead to the sinking feeling that a crucial undergraduate lecture was missed. Indeed, converting strike and dip measurements between different systems, such as Quadrants, Azimuth, Dip/Dip Direction, and the Right-Hand Rule, is often a challenging source of frustration. Are you confused by strike and dip conventions like Azimuth, …

Read more