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Xuesong Ding

@xding.bsky.social

Geoscientist interested in basin stratigraphy, rivers, mountains, tectonics, and modeling. Research Assistant Professor at UT Austin

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Sascha Brune @sasbrune.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

How is salt tectonics affected by salt rheology, rift tectonics, and sedimentation rates? ⚒️🧂 In this article of Zhichen Wang, we use cross-scale geodynamic models of lithosphere deformation, evaporite flow and surface processes: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Xuesong Ding @xding.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

It was a great experience to join and lead a team at the 2nd Geoscience Hackathon, and our team SeaPsychos won the first place🥇! Our students are amazing, very proud of them 🥳! Hook ‘em 🤘

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Xuesong Ding @xding.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Larry Syu-Heng Lai and I will be leading a short course at GSA 2025, "Modeling of Landscape Evolution and Basin Stratigraphy with goSPL". Registration closes on August 5th, so please register soon at this link lnkd.in/gsT6pSUK. We thank @clasticslab.bsky.social for their generous sponsorship.

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Sascha Brune @sasbrune.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

⚒️ What do the ups and downs of rifts tell us about tectonics, volcanism and fluid flow? ⚒️ Join our #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Kyle Murray, Birhan Kebede, Bodo Bookhagen Monday July 7th, 4 pm CET Register uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... Past talks www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...

July 7th: “Subsidence across scales –
resource extraction, volcanism and tectonics”

16:00 Kyle Murray (University of Hawaii, USA)
“Imaging crustal deformation across the central East African Rift: Insights into volcanic, tectonic & hydrologic processes"

16:20 Birhan Kebede (University of Florence, Italy)
“Ground subsidence in the Dallol geothermal area: Insights from InSAR Observations”

16:40 Bodo Bookhagen (Potsdam University, Germany)
“GNSS and InSAR observations at the Olkaria geothermal site in the central East African Rift System”

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Oliver Strimpel @geologybites.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

🧪⚒️Just released Mike Hudec on salt tectonics. Amazingly, salt structures can be many tens of kilometers across. And because salt is extremely weak compared to other rocks and minerals, it is the first to deform in the presence of stresses. It's often involved in forming hydrocarbon reserves.

Salt mountain in the Zagros mountains of Iran.

Salt mountain in the Zagros mountains of Iran. Courtesy of Kayvan Karimi.

Salt glacier flowing down a valley in the Zagros mountains, Iran.

Block diagram showing the wide range of shapes that salt diapirs can assume.

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Xuesong Ding @xding.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Pleased to share that our paper “Retroarc foreland basins document past oceanic subduction history” is out in EPSL. 50 days’ free access through this link authors.elsevier.com/a/1l5vB,Ig4c....

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