16:00 Ran Issachar (Geological Survey of Israel)
“Plume-induced plate rotation in the Afro-Arabian rift”
16:20 Hany Khalil (Alexandria University, Egypt)
“Impact of rotation pole proximity on rift evolution: analog and numerical modelling insights from the Red Sea”
16:40 Asfaw Erbello (Adama Science and Technology University, Ethiopia) “Temporal variation in counterclockwise vertical-axis block rotations across a rift overlap zone, southwestern Ethiopia, East Africa”
⚒️ How do rotational tectonics affect continental rifting and break-up? ⚒️
Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
on March 2nd 2026, 4 pm CET
with Ran Issachar,
Hany Khalil,
Asfaw Erbello
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24.02.2026 08:22
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16:00 Daniel Sauter (University of Strasbourg, France)
“Was the mantle warmer when Pangea broke up? Insights from initial oceanic crustal thickness alongside the rifted margins of the Atlantic and Indian oceans”
16:20 Éva Oravecz (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary and ETH, Switzerland)
“The effects of oblique rifting on the syn-rift magmatism and spreading initiation”
16:40 Leila Mezri (University of Bremen – MARUM, Germany)
“Tectonic controls on melt production and crustal architecture during magma-poor seafloor spreading”
⚒️ How does seafloor spreading initiate when continents break apart? ⚒️
Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
on Feb 2nd 2026, 4 pm CET
with Daniel Sauter,
Éva Oravecz,
Leila Mezri
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27.01.2026 07:30
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January 5th: “Sources of rift inheritance”
16:00 CET: Mélanie Ballay (University of Strasbourg, France)
“Mantle inheritance and mantle-melt interaction, two key factors in the lithospheric break-up: insights from the Australia-Antarctica magma-poor rifted margins"
16:20 CET: Jeffrey Pollock (Mount Royal University, Canada)
“The influence of orogenic collapse and tectonic inheritance on continental break-up: insights from seismic anisotropy in the lithospheric mantle"
16:40 CET: Zoltán Erdős (University of Potsdam, Germany)
“The influence of orogenic inheritance on rift dynamics - a numerical modeling perspective”
⚒️ How does orogenic inheritance affect rifting and continental break-up? ⚒️
Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
on Jan 5th 2026, 4 pm CET
with Mélanie Ballay,
Jeffrey Pollock,
Zoltán Erdős
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29.12.2025 18:30
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⚒️ Join our EGU26 session ⚒️
"Multi-scale subsurface processes, fluid systems and raw materials supporting the energy transition"
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Convened by Meike Bagge, Christian Heine, Judith Bott, Maximilian Hasch, Sascha Brune
03.12.2025 12:38
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16:00 Sarah Stamps (Virginia Polytechnic, U.S.A.)
“Open Access GNSS datasets for investigations of extensional settings”
16:20 Carolina Pagli (University of Pisa, Italy)
“InSAR insights into earthquakes and volcanoes of the East African Rift”
16:40 James Wood (Imperial College London, U.K.)
“Resolving coseismic and aseismic normal fault slip behaviours from InSAR time series: examples from Central Greece”
⚒️ What can geodetic techniques reveal about continental rifting? ⚒️
Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
on Dec 1st, 4 pm CET
with Sarah Stamps, @sorcerinsar.bsky.social, James Wood
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25.11.2025 16:42
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November 3rd: “Topography data and rift processes”
16:00 Reha Chandresh (University of Florence) - Spatio-temporal fault evolution patterns in magma-rich rifts using quantitative geomorphology - insights from Central Afar, Ethiopia
16:20 Ramon Arrowsmith (Arizona State University) - Topography Data and Rift Processes: mapping, landscape reconstruction, tectonic geomorphology, and topographic differencing
16:40 David Fernández-Blanco (Chinese Academy of Sciences) - Decoding continental rift mechanics with uplifted relief
⚒️ What does rift topography reveal about tectonic, magmatic and surface processes? ⚒️
Nov 3rd, 4 pm CET
#RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
with
@rehachandresh.bsky.social
@jrarrowsmith.bsky.social
David Fernández-Blanco
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28.10.2025 07:28
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This is a repost:.
⚒️ Interested in the latest analog modelling advances for understanding rifts? ⚒️
Join our #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Valentina Armeni, Timothy Schmid, & Daniele Maestrelli
Monday, Oct 6th, 4 pm CEST
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06.10.2025 12:21
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October 6th: “Analog modelling of rifting processes”
16:00 Valentina Armeni (University of Potsdam) - Analog and DEM modeling of magma pathways and volcano distribution between adjacent rift segments
16:20 Timothy Schmid (University of Bern) - Rift-axis parallel lower-crustal flow and its implication on rift propagation: A quantitative view of rift dynamics from analogue models
16:40: Daniele Maestrelli (CNR Florence) - Rifting triple junctions: insights from modelling on the Afar RRR junction
⚒️ Interested in the latest analog modelling advances for understanding rifts? ⚒️
Join our #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Valentina Armeni, Timothy Schmid, & Daniele Maestrelli
Monday, Oct 6th, 4 pm CEST
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30.09.2025 09:54
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September 1st: “Machine learning for understanding rifting”
16:00 Tolulope Olugboji (University of Rochester, U.S.A.)
“Africa Reassembled: AI and Seismic Algorithms Map the Hidden Lithosphere”
16:20 Eric Beaucé (LDEO, U.S.A.)
“New Insights into Small Magnitude Seismicity in Botswana using Machine-Learning-Enhanced Detection Techniques”
16:40 Gianmaria Tortelli (University of Florence, Italy)
“Machine learning based study on geochemical data from Afar”
⚒️ Interested in the latest machine learning advances for understanding rifts? ⚒️
Join our #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Tolulope Olugboji, Eric Beaucé, @gimmi-p.bsky.social
Monday, Sept 1st, 4 pm CEST
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25.08.2025 22:24
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A viable Labrador Sea rifting origin of the Northern Appalachian and related seismic anomalies | Geology | GeoScienceWorld
New ideas published in @geosociety.bsky.social Geology that the Northern Appalachian anomaly beneath the Eastern US is a migrating small-scale convection cell originating from past rifting of the Labrador Sea @gernon.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...
30.07.2025 05:21
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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”
⚒️ 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
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03.07.2025 06:36
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@talents-dn.bsky.social
@derekkeir.bsky.social
26.05.2025 16:13
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Session: “Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Elements in Rifts”
16:00 Lukas Klose (Constructor University, Germany)-
“The behavior of Rare Earth Elements in alkaline lakes from the East African Rift”
16:20 Anne Glerum (GFZ, Potsdam, Germany)
“Sediment-hosted zinc-lead deposit formation in continental rifts”
16:40 Holly Elliott (BGS,UK)
“The Goldilocks effect of carbonatites in rift zones”
⚒️ How, where and when do Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Elements accumulate in Rifts? ⚒️
Join our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Lukas Klose, Anne Glerum, Holly Elliott
Monday June 2nd, 4 pm CET
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26.05.2025 12:59
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The @talents-dn.bsky.social students enjoy the view of Elba from the Bianchane fumerole field @sasbrune.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social
17.05.2025 15:34
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The Google map of the Roman world explained to the @talents-dn.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social
17.05.2025 08:41
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@talents-dn.bsky.social field trip to the Lardarello gethermal museum @sasbrune.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social
17.05.2025 08:38
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Josef Zens @gfz.bsky.social on science communication. A short course for @talents-dn.bsky.social doctoral candidates.
@derekkeir.bsky.social
@susannebuiter.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social
16.05.2025 11:57
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The @talents-dn.bsky.social doctoral network workshop in Florence is underway @rehachandresh.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social
12.05.2025 09:30
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@talents-dn.bsky.social students enjoying the sun at second Talents workshop @rehachandresh.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social
12.05.2025 09:57
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Wael Nazha talking about fluid geochemistry in rifts at the @talents-dn.bsky.social workshop in Florence @susannebuiter.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social
12.05.2025 11:33
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Francesca Dimasi presenting about serpentine and implications for hydrogen resources at the @talents-dn.bsky.social workshop @susannebuiter.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social
12.05.2025 11:41
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Student presentations underway in the @talents-dn.bsky.social doctoral network workshop @sasbrune.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social
12.05.2025 11:21
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Much enjoying the presentations today by the Doctoral Candidates in the @talents-dn.bsky.social network. So much already achieved in just a year! Check the posts by @derekkeir.bsky.social to see all Doctoral Candidates
12.05.2025 11:51
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Ivan Navarrete presenting about modelling GNSS data from the East African rift at the @talents-dn.bsky.social workshop in Florence @susannebuiter.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social
12.05.2025 11:53
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Lawrencia Mensah presenting about controls on deep earthquakes in rifts at the @talents-dn.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social
12.05.2025 12:07
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Conor Farrell presenting about rift segmentation at the @talents-dn.bsky.social workshop in Florence @susannebuiter.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social
12.05.2025 12:26
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Chloe Castagne explaining the role of inheritance on continental breakup to the @talents-dn.bsky.social workshop participants @susannebuiter.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social
12.05.2025 12:36
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@rehachandresh.bsky.social talking about tectonic geomorphology applied to Afar @talents-dn.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social
12.05.2025 12:44
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Alan Yu of the @gfz.bsky.social explaining his work to the @talents-dn.bsky.social network about European grabens and geothermal energy @susannebuiter.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social
12.05.2025 12:54
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Tina Neumann of the @gfz.bsky.social talking about her research on why rifts fail @talents-dn.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social
12.05.2025 13:05
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