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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

How can you use mantle plumes as a reference frame for plate motions, although they rise from a convecting lower mantle? This is a topic I studied during much of my scientific life and which I discuss with Oliver Strimpel @geologybites.bsky.social: www.geologybites.com/bernhard-ste...

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

En route to the recovery cruise aiming at imaging materials that flowed northward from the Hawaii plume, passing the region with the highest mountains in Greenland. Here doi.org/10.1111/ter.... we proposed that these were uplifted due to materials flowing northward from the Iceland plume ...

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Ronghua Cui's paper on modeling geoid and dynamic topography from tomography‐based thermo‐chemical mantle convection lnkd.in/dWZFtG3v has been published! Ronghua was here for a one-year visiting postdoc Nov 2023 - Nov 2024. Our main takeaways: (cont.)

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I am very glad to share that I first-authored the very first paper published in the new diamond-open access (meaning it is free to publish AND free to read) journal Geodynamica. This paper lnkd.in/eyPAdx2X actually grew out of a high school student internship. (continued)

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

What happens if subducted slabs interact with hot material at the base of the upper mantle? In Yingying Li's first paper doi.org/10.1029/2025... we show how this can lead to (secondary) upper mantle plumes. With @sasbrune.bsky.social, Eline Le Breton, Anne Glerum and @michapons.bsky.social.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Koko Seamount (Emperor Chain) on 5-6 km deep ocean floor supposedly reaches up to -26 m! Last night Hakuhomaru passed there. In 2001 on Joides Resolution we drilled basalts to document Hawaii hotspot motion www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Amazing I would come to this remote place twice in my life!

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

A cloudy day on Hess Rise. In 2019 we wrote doi.org/10.1029/2019... on the origin of Hess Rise, I can't believe now I'm actually here, on board of Hakuhomaru. But we actually want to look in the mantle beneath, for vestiges of material emplaced by the Hawaiian Plume during Emperor Chain formation

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

3rd paper from @poulamiroy.bsky.social's Ph.D. just out at doi.org/10.1029/2025.... Combined global models of mantle flow and anisotropy constrain deformation mechanisms and viscosity, density and hence compositional structure of lowermost mantle. With Manuele Faccenda, @michapons.bsky.social & me.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The loading has begun. For some scientific background, see my presentation docs.google.com/presentation...

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

My first boat trip this year - to Pfaueninsel. The next one will probably be slightly longer - a research cruise from Honolulu to Tokyo. Stay tuned for more details!

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Wondering what is the anisotropic signature of slab-induced plumes from thermochemical piles in the lowermost mantle? Then find out from Poulami Roy's paper agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... co-authored by Manuele Faccenda, @michapons.bsky.social and myself

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Scientific recycling: In doi.org/10.1029/2024... I use results from Poulami Roy's Ph.D. thesis to address why plume excess temperatures are much less than temperature drop across the lowermost-mantle thermal boundary layer. Further co-authors @michapons.bsky.social and Matteo Jopke. (continued)

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

More than 10,000 scientists living, working or educated in Germany have already signed this appeal by @de.scientists4future.org to the members of the newly elected parliament to step up efforts for climate protection. Click here www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o... if you'd like to join.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

More than 2000 Scientists living, working or educated in Germany have already signed this appeal by @de.scientists4future.org to the members of the newly elected parliament to step up efforts for climate protection. Click here www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o... if you'd like to join.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The democratic choices on one lamp post - who should I choose on Sunday? Note that here in Potsdam we can directly vote for Scholz - not as chancellor, though, but as MP.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I'm in a time warp - back in 1980

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

Jackson, M. G., Finlayson, V. A., Steinberger, B., & Konrad, K. (2024). When a plateau suppresses a plume: Disappearance of the Samoan plume under the Ontong Java Plateau. AGU Advances, 5, e2023AV001079. doi.org/10.1029/2023...

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Scientists for Future und Fridays for Future in Wien! Kurz auf dem weg von EGU zum Bahnhof vorbeigeschaut.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

Toroidal flow around the Tonga slab moved the Samoan plume during the Pliocene doi.org/10.1130/G515...

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Fridays for Future und Scientists for Future @de.scientists4future.org @s4f-bebb.bsky.social in Potsdam gemeinsam auf der Straße.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Konrad et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.ep... propose that Oceanic mid-plate superstructures (OMS) formed by multiple plumes and shallow tectonic drivers, focussing on the Melanesian Border Plateau. Glad to have been able to contribute to this!

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

"Mantle flow may have influenced oceanic connections between the Arctic and global ocean providing a link between deep mantle convection, surface evolution, and environmental changes." doi.org/10.1016/j.ep... (with Eivind Straume, Thorsten Becker and Claudio Faccenna).

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Zusammen mit 300,000 für eine offene Gesellschaft und gegen ihre Feinde in der AfD - also Ordner in der 1. Reihe. Siehe hier twitter.com/Luisamneubau... für den Blick von der Bühne.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

How is stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet related to viscosity of the mantle beneath, and what does the fact that the deepest geoid low on Earth is in this region tell us about the mantle beneath and its viscosity? Find out from our latest paper! tektonika.online/index.php/ho...

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