A new global Erodibility Index

Oman Mountains - new paper in Tectonics

Boudinage on Naxos - 2 papers back to back

Naxos boudinage untangled - check out our two papers.

#1: Virgo et al. in SolidEarth - the big picture. Available here (open access): https://www.solid-earth.net/9/91/2018/se-9-91-2018.html

#2: von Hagke et al. in Journal of Structural Geology - outcrop scale tomography. Preprint available here: https://t.co/cBinMgSAgT

Triangle zones and their uncertainties

– a discussion of these fascinating structures is now published in Earth Science Reviews. Check it out here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825217302866

PhD Position in Tectonics available

Please apply until July 15th 2017

Mechanics of Igneous Intrusion Emplacement and implications for Sedimentary Basins

At 13 h Peter Vrolijk (Geologist IODP) will continue with

And here goes the next paper, this time about 'Dilatant normal faulting in jointed cohesive rocks: a physical model study'.

And again, we paid for Open-Access, so get your free copy here: http://www.solid-earth.net/7/843/2016/se-7-843-2016.html

Yes! Finally! Our review paper on "Clay smear: Review of mechanisms and applications" has made it through the proofs and layout process and is published open access here:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/…/article/pii/S0191814115300390

Don't be scared by its length, there is a readers guide included pointing out which sections to read for casual or advanced readers.

Next week on Wednesday 11th November Dr. Ioannis Papanikolaou from the Agricultural University of Athens will be giving a NUGGED seminar talk titled:

Seismic Landscape and Earthquake Geology (implications for seismic hazards and Catastrophe models)

The talk will begin at 12.00 in room 408. The seminar is open to researchers, students, colleagues and friends.

In tomorrow's NUGGED seminar Samira Al Balushi & Maryam Al Balushi (GUtech, Oman) will present findings of their Bachelor's Theses in a talk entitled

'Quaternary palaeobeach deposits along the coastline of Aseelah (Oman)'

Everybody is invited to join!
Thursday, 28 May, 2015
12.30 h, Room 408

Dear colleagues and students,

Next Thursday, Sept. 4th, David Fernandez-Blanco (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / ETH Zurich) will give a talk in our seminar, titled:

Tectonic motions and their geodynamic drivers: The need for an integrative large-scale perspective

We will convene at 13:15 in room 408, Lochnerstr. 4-20.
Looking forward to seeing you there!

Simon's, Max's and Zoe's paper on the "Development of fault and vein networks in a carbonate sequence near Hayl al Shaz, Oman Mountains" is in press (GeoArabia). Download a preprint here!

Andrea's paper "Meshless Numerical Modeling of Brittle-Viscous Deformation: First Results on Boudinage and Hydrofracturing Using a Coupling of Discrete Element Method (DEM) and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)" has been accepted for publication in Computational Geosciences.

Out now: Geological Society, London, Special Publications (Vol. 363) on 'Salt Tectonics, Sediments and Prospectivity' including papers by Frank Strozyk on '3D seismic on complex intra-salt deformation in the Upper Permian Zechstein 3 stringer, western Dutch offshore' and Shiyuan Li on 'numerical modelling of displacement and deformation of embedded rock bodies during salt tectonics, a case study on the South Oman Salt Basin'.

This week, the 15th of December Jochen Hürtgen & Andreas Rudersdorf will give a NUGGED seminar. Title of the talk will be: The Padul-Nigüelas Fault Zone - New evidence from the Granada Basin. 12 o'clock, room 4.08, 4th floor, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.

This week, the 8th of December Ben Laurich will give a NUGGED seminar. Title of the talk will be: Porosity and micro-fabric in faulted Opalinus Clay. 12 o'clock, room 4.08, 4th floor, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.

This week, the 1st of December Dr. Neta Wechsler (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris) will give a NUGGED seminar. Title of the talk will be: Historical- and paleo-seismicity of the Dead Sea Transform. 12 o'clock, room 4.08, 4th floor, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.

This week, the 24th of November Andrea Komoroczi will give a NUGGED seminar. Topic of the talk is coupled brittle-ductile deformation. 12 o'clock, room 4.08, 4th floor, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.

This week, the 10th of November Shiyuan Li will give a NUGGED seminar. Title of the talk is: A new method to evaluate salt rheology during long-term creep. 12 o'clock, room 4.08, 4th floor, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.

This week, the 20th of October Joyce Schmatz will give a NUGGED seminar. Title of the talk is - A new technique for in-situ measurement of capillary contact angles in reservoir rocks: an outlook. 12 o'clock, room 4.08, 4th floor, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.

Today Alistair McCay from the University of Strathclyde will give a talk about Enhanced fracture connectivity in fault zones. Everybody is kindly invited to join us at 2pm in Room 408

Upcoming 2 days short course on "geologic trapping of buoyant fluids" at our institute the 13th-14th of October, held by Peter Vrolijk and Franco Corona from ExxonMobil. No tuition fees for Master-students, PhD-students & Post Docs. More information at here.

This week, the 25th of August Raphaela Schauerte will give a NUGGED seminar. Title of the talk is - Attisch-Metamorpher Gürtel und Geologie von Athen. 12 o'clock, room 4.08, 4th floor, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.

Next week the 28th of July Koen van Noten (KU Leuven) will give a NUGGED seminar. Title of Koen's talk is - Analysing the Rursee quartz veins: a unique insight into the early Variscan tectonic inversion. 12 o'clock, room 4.08, 4th floor, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.

2 papers of Guillaume on: 'High-resolution 3D fabric and porosity model in a tight gas sandstone reservoir' and 'Distribution of brine in grain boundaries during static recrystallization in wet, synthetic halite' using BIB-SEM investigations, are now available online.

Joyce' paper on the interaction of migrating grain boundaries and fluid inclusions is published in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology.

Who is going to join our NUGGED running team at the Lousberglauf 2011? 5555m, July-6th. Write us a message on Facebook! The next registration opens tomorrow (Wednesday) May-25th at 7pm CET.

Tomorrow in the NUGGED Seminar series: Nicole Höbig - Terrestrial archives in Western Europe (Spain, France, Potugal): Late Pleistocene/Holocene paleoclimatic variations. May 12th 2011, room 4.12. 4th floor, 12 o'clock, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.

Tomorrow in the NUGGED Seminar series: Benjamin Koster - Tsunamigenic deposits in the Mediterranean - sedimentological and geophysical investigations in different accumulation environments. May 5th 2011, room 3.14. 3rd floor, 12 o'clock, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.

Tomorrow in the NUGGED Seminar series: Sohrab Noorsalehi-Garakani - Clay smear in normal faults. April 21st 2011, room 3.14. 3rd floor, 12 o'clock, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.

Tomorrow in the NUGGED Seminar series: Dr Dion Weatherley (Univesity of Queensland, Australia) - Miscellaneous investigations on rock mechanics using the Discrete Element Method. March 31st 2011, room 4.16. 4th floor, 12 o'clock, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.

Tomorrow in the NUGGED Seminar series: Max Arndt-  Modeling Mineral Vein Dynamics. March 10th 2011, room 4.12. 4th floor, 12 o'clock, Lochnerstraße 4-20, Haus A, Aachen.

We published on the 3D seismic geomorphology & sedimentology of the Chalk Group, Danish North Sea in the Journal of the Geological Society

Heijn's paper on the internal geometry of salt structures is now published in the Journal of Structural Geology.

January 31st, 1Live Radio did a short radio interview with Max Arndt, about life and work in Al Hamra! Listen to it here!