Ka mua, ka muri – Walking backwards into the future
Looking to the past to inform the future – historical events on the Hikurangi subduction zone New Zealand’s geological setting…
Thin, but not too thin!
Thin sections show us what is hiding inside the rocks Sometimes the secrets to why a fault is moving is…
Guest blog: Srisharan Shreedharan
My pathway into Geology My formal undergraduate training is in geological engineering. This included learning about everything from building tunnels…
Guest Blog: Hannah Rabinowitz
Growing up in New Mexico, it’s hard to avoid the sheer majesty of the Earth and the enormity of geologic…
The stages of Te Matakite’s installation
Our first observatory on Expedition 375 is one of the most complex ever installed because instrument packages have to fit in the…
Cretaceous Smackdown or When Geology Met Wrestling
The reigning champion is the unbreakable wrestler Gondwana. Gondwana is one of the original pro-geo wrestlers and will face off…
(Platten-) Grenzen erfahren: Walter Kurz
Expedition 366 erforscht die Serpentinit-Schlammvlkane des sogenannten Mariana Forearc, also der Zone zwischen Marianengraben und den Inselbogen-Vulkanen der heutigen Marianeninseln….
Incoming! Oblique Subduction at the Sunda Subduction Zone
The Indian and Australian Plates plow northeast into the Sumatra subduction zone, part of the larger Sunda subduction zone, at a…
What’s an Earthquake?
Earthquakes may bring to mind fear and danger or perhaps confusion and curiosity. Some earthquakes can be very destructive, as…
Getting ready for the first ‘core on deck’
After few days of transit from Colombo, we are finally docked on top of the first site of Expedition 355…