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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I am excited to share that this week I have started my new position as Assistant Professor of Structural Geology at IGV, Stockholm University! I look forward to exciting time and new challenges up ahead!

Lawn in the sunshine outside of Stockholm University (on campus)

Photograph of entrance to Stockholm University, Institute for Geological Science

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Annelotte Weert @geolotje.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

🔎 New insights on #fault growth in inverted rift basins! 🎓 The second chapter of my #PhD recently published in Journal of #StructuralGeology 😊 🌍 We studied #extensional & #inverted faults and their development through #multiphase #rifting and basin #inversion 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

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EGU TS @ts.egu.eu · 05/06/2025

⏳ Reminder! There’s still time to nominate a colleague for an EGU TS Division Medal 🏅 🗓 Deadline: 15 June 2025 🔗 Nominate here: www.egu.eu/awards-medals/nominations/ #Geoscience #Tectonics #StructuralGeology

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Having a great time studying fossil lower-crustal earthquakes, mylonites, and lower-crustal processes in Lofoten. This time with some extra excitement. We are joined by a camera team that produces short videos about the CONTINENT project lead by Luca Menegon @ UiO. Very interesting experience! 🧪⚒️

Photograph of pristine pseudotachylyte (fossil earthquake) in a rock. A coin is shown for scale.

Photograph of a shear zone in a rock. A coin is shown for scale.

Photograph brighter, more felsic former melts interacting with a dark, mafic rock. A coin is shown for scale.

Two reseachers taking notes while being filmed by two camera men in the scenic background of the Lofoten islands.

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EGU TS @ts.egu.eu · 11/04/2025

Jobs on Friday! Research Fellow in Structural Geology! The study will provide a review of the timing and nature of Jurassic sequence development and structural evolution of the Mid Norway region. Salary £38,249 per annum. Info = a.hartley@abdn.ac.uk www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs Closing date = 22 April 2025

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EGU TS @ts.egu.eu · 16/04/2025

🌈 New on the #EGU TS blog! Queer Quarterly, a blog series about being LGBT in academia: We asked three openly queer researchers for their thoughts on being visibly or openly queer as researchers. ✨ Read their insights: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ts...

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Queer Quarterly: What does queer visibility mean in academia?

Queer Quarterly is the blog series of the EGU pride group, a LGBTQIA+ team of geoscientists engaged to uphold and improve the rights of the community in the EGU organization. This week’s post is dedic...

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EGU TS @ts.egu.eu · 21/04/2025

Great overview of all things #ECS at #EGU25 👇 Stay tuned for more on the ECS TS events!

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EGU TS @ts.egu.eu · 31/03/2025

#ecsmonday on BlueSky #2🤩 Check out the model and how Marina Galindos-Alfarache et al. (NOR) differentiate between pre- and syn-collisional structures during Caledonian orogeny⛰️: doi.org/10.1016/j.te... #paperalert #isotopes #geochemistry #tectonics

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EGU TS @ts.egu.eu · 28/03/2025

Jobs on Friday! 🎉🎉 Research Associate in Tectonics and Tectonophysics, a permanent position at the University of Berlin www.earthworks-jobs.com/jobs/fuberli...

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EGU TS @ts.egu.eu · 24/03/2025

#ecsmonday on BlueSky #1 Let´s start with Claudia Elijas-Parra et al. (UK) and her #cracking insights of #porousrocks. Check out their improved statistical #method to distinguish between different phases of initiating a microcrack network: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #myfault #shearband

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EGU TS @ts.egu.eu · 24/03/2025

@egu.eu Early Career Scientists (ECS) from Tectonics and Structural Geology are posting now on BlueSky: #ecsMonday papers, #tectonicModellingTuesday and #jobsonFriday. Follow us! Support us! 🤩 Do you now recent ECS papers or tectonic models? Share it with us, to share it with all! 🚀

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EGU TS @ts.egu.eu · 21/03/2025

Jobs on Friday! (we're back) The Department of Earth Sciences (Utrecht University) is seeking an Assistant or Associate Professor in Electron Microscopy of Earth Materials Deadline 31 March 2025 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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EGU TS @ts.egu.eu · 18/03/2025

The #EGU25 programme is online! 🔎 Explore sessions, abstracts, and all TS-related content — and start planning your week. See what’s coming up: egu.eu/1806BR

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Check out Stephen's latest accomplishment! Super proud of him! 🧪⚒️ Excellent job!

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The TS division has also arrived! Follow them at @ts.egu.eu !

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Kristina Dunkel @kristinadunkel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I just pasted this photo into a powerpoint, and the #AI-generated AIt Text is "A person drawing a fish on a rock". 😂 Pretty accurate description! #geology

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Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 04/02/2025

🚨 Hot off the press 🪨 ⚒️ Where do you come from, where do you go 🎶 fluids that is… after an earthquake in the dry lower crust? We look into this and more using SEM-CL, EBSD, EMPA, STEM, and FTIR! Hit the link below 👇 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Caution! Reacting when wet! 🧪⚒️ Plagioclase breakdown in action with plagioclase reacting to clinozoisite + kyanite + quartz + white mica. The classic reaction at high pressure conditions. I just got some TEM results from these beautiful samples, so stay tuned! #thinsectionthursday

Backscattered electron image of plagioclase with reaction products of clinozoisite, quartz, kyanite, and white mica.

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 04/12/2024

🌍🌌 AGU is thrilled to join Bluesky! We’re here to share exciting discoveries, spotlight incredible scientists, and connect with YOU in this vibrant community. Follow along as we explore how Earth and space sciences make the world a better place. 🌟

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Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 05/12/2024

🪨⚒️ #thinsectionthursday of a recrystallized quenched frictional melt (pseudotachylyte) from Lofoten, Norway. Plagioclase survivor clast retains deformation twins, reaction between garnet-amphibole. Garnet cores are full of inclusions from rapid quenching growth, then slow growth to form facet GB🧪 🔬

Crossed polarized light micrograph of a pseudotachylyte

Plane polarized light micrograph of a pseudotachylyte

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is a map showing the orientation of diopside in a deformed symplectite. This used to be an omphacite, which tells us that the rock used to be at very high pressure (great depth). ⚒️🧪 If you want to read more about how such symplectites nucleate and deform: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Orientation map (IPFZ) of diopside that formed from the breakdown of omphacite, a high pressure mineral.

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

So strong and yet so weak: Look at this beautiful 'weak' shear zone in a 'strong' gabbro from western Norway. Can't wait to get back to the field in the summer! 🧪⚒️

Photgraph of a weak shear zone (deformed rock) in a strong gabbro (non-deformed rock). The shear zone is a approximately 10 cm thick. A coin (5 Norwegian krone) is in the image for scale. Image was taken in western Norway.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

You should not be allowed to review papers unless you've read this and signed a contract 👇 I don't make the rules 😏 Yet 😈 www.dl.begellhouse.com/download/art...

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Brittle? Ductile? Brittle-ductile? If you are interested in why rocks deform the way they do, consider submitting an abstract to our session at #EGU25! The deadline to apply for travel support is on December 2nd! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Info grafic advertising session TS1.3 at EGU25. Title of the session is: Brittle and ductile deformation of Earth's lithosphere: Mechanisms governing deformation style. Invited speaker: Marie Baïsset (ENS Paris)

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Samuele Papeschi サムエレパペスキ | Geology is the way ⚒️🧪 @calamitaman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Ok, here we go! Metamorphic community starter pack! bsky.app/starter-pack... I have added some metamorphic folk, but the list is just at the beginning, so please contact me to be included ☺️ ⚒️🔨🧪

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Jeff Catalano @jeffcatalano.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Elsevier tonight has decided to ban authors from suggesting reviewers. I told them this is stupid. Yes, need to avoid conflicted reviewers, and editors should be cautious, but suggestions are helpful. When you send 20-30 invites to get 2 reviews, seeing names points you in the right direction.

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Dr. Lucia Perez-Diaz @drlperezdiaz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The cat is (finally) out of the bag...my FIRST CHILDREN'S BOOK! is here! 📚✨ "How the Earth works" (DK Books) takes inquisitive 7-9 year olds on a journey of discovery into the inner workings of our planet, and is now available for pre-order! Links in my profile! #SciArt #geoscience #kidlit

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Samuele Papeschi サムエレパペスキ | Geology is the way ⚒️🧪 @calamitaman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Here is the Structural Geology & Tectonics starter pack. Hope it is visible bsky.app/starter-pack... If somebody wants to be added, please write me!

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Matthew Tarling @rocksbydefault.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Interested in 3D printing your own thin section boxes? I am providing the .STL files for a few different models, for free!!! Check out: matthewtarling.github.io/printing/

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Are you interested in how deformation and metamorphism interact? Consider submitting an abstract to our session at #EGU25 ⚒️🧪 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... Deadline to apply for travel support is om the 2nd of december!

Banner advertising session GMPV3.2 at EGU25 general assembly titled: How deformation and metamorphism interact: insights into thermal-hydrological-mechanical-chemical feedbacks in nature and experiments

The conference will be in Vienna, Austria and online between 27 April and 2 May 2025.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 18/11/2024

Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂

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Kristina Dunkel @kristinadunkel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I usually prefer working with thinsections, but sometimes 3D samples are fun as well! Here some gypsum growing in black shale from Oslo. Field of view ca 10 µm. #electronmicroscopy

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Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 17/11/2024

I woke up to a bunch of new followers, so I should share some things that we do here at the Njord Centre, University of Oslo. Here is my JGR: Solid Earth paper on porosity in lower crustal faults and ductile shear zones using microCT, EBSD, SEM-CL. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Top left is a microtomography volume of a pseudotachylyte (PST) and the adjacent damage zone. Porosity is concentrated in the PST, while the damage zone is efficiently healed. Highwr amounts of porosity is around garnet due to densification during garnet recrystallization growth.

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It's already a few months old but I thought I'd post it here anyway. You want to know when seismicity in the Lofoten block (northern Norway) occurred? Check out this video of me talking about it 😅: www.mn.uio.no/njord/englis... 🧪⚒️🎬

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Dating fossil lower-crustal earthquakes by in-situ apatite U-Pb geochronology - Njord

In this video, our postdoctoral researcher at the Njord Centre Sascha Zertani, shows you the results of the paper he and his coauthors published in the journal “Earth and Planetary Science Letters”.

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Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 16/11/2024

It might not be #thinsectionthursday, but my Saturday morning coffee has inspired me to post some microstructures from pseudotachylyte fault rocks from Lofoten, Norway.

Coronas of garnet around foxy brown biotite and coronas of garnet & OPx around olivine in the damage zone of a pseudotachylyte vein (black very fine grained vein with suspended clasts at the bottom of the view)

Quenching microstructures in a pseudotachylyte fault - microlites of plagioclase and cauliflower garnet)

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

Kvamshesten basin conglomerates sitting above the mylonites separated by a sharp brittle detachment. Spectacular outcrops! #folds #geology #mylonite @hugolantman.bsky.social @glgysteve.bsky.social

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

The most beautiful outcrop in the world! Beginning asymmetric boudinage and veins provide evidence of consistent kinematics during protracted deformation of the Nordfjord-Sogn detachment. #geology

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Day 2 of the tectonics field tip took us through the basement of Baltica and to the Nordfjord-Sogn detachment! #geology @hugolantman.bsky.social @glgysteve.bsky.social

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

Day 1 of this years tectonics field trip: The pictures show flame structures in a turbidite sequence, providing nice way-up criteria, and axial cleavage-bedding intersections from folding of the sequence. #geology

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Learned a lot during very interesting days in Bristol at the MSG research in progress meeting! Very interesting two days of talks and a great workshop on kinetics.

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

We have an age! Check out our latest paper on dating lower-crustal earthquakes! We combined apatite U-Pb data with microstructural observations (EBSD, CL). Open access! @MicroLuca @NjordUiO authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

#EGU24 deadline is approaching! Please consider contributing to our session if you are working on interactions between brittle deformation, ductile deformation, and/or metamorphism. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio...

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Sascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Are you working on brittle and/or ductile deformation, possibly associated with metamorphic reactions? We would love to hear about it! Consider submitting to our session at #EGU24 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio...

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