Viewing the daily frames obtained by the NASA MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, Geochemistry, and Ranging) mission, we can enjoy an amazing flight over the surface of the planet Mercury. We know that surprises are hidden among the images
The Rosetta mission was approved in 1993, and was successfully launched in 2004 to fly to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Finally, we have reached the target.
Starting my masters in geophysics, and then choosing a thesis focusing on numerical models of mantle convection at CEED, I did not think I would get to travel. I was then excited when my supervisor suggested that I should go to the GeoMod2014 conference held in Potsdam in the start of September. Being both excited and a bit nervous at the same time, the owner was probably not that ready.
Have you heard of the mantle rocks hanging out on the Norwegian mountains? It seems not many people have, which is strange because they’ve been there for at least the last Eon or so. This is the tale of my field work looking at these rocks over the last summer. These mantle rocks have hidden themselves well amongst a thin unit of mixed metamorphosed oceanic sediments called a Melange. The melange unit is trapped structurally below the Middle Allochthon crystalline nappes. It is thin but stretches all the way from the Bergen arcs and about 400km north-eastwards to Røros (and beyond?).
What can 130 geophysicists, geochemists, mineral physicists, geodynamicists, petrologists and amateur geologists do to our understanding of deep Earth?
In early August, Adam Durant participated in a large study of a landfill site near Ipswich in the UK. Read about his impressions from the smelly fieldwork – and why he went there.
CEED-researcher Adriano Mazzini participated in a Lake Baikal cruise in July 2014. Get the updates here.
The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the high Arctic Ocean is a truly remarkable place. We travelled to Longyearbyen in October 2013 and April 2014 to get samples of volcanic ash layers.
In March 2014, my colleagues and I published a paper in Science. Here are the highlights – and the implications.
On May 7, 2014, CEED will mark the tenth anniversary of two major breakthroughs in the fields of deep Earth materials and dynamics:
The CEED blog covers some behind-the-scenes about our latest research and activities. The contributors are a mix of students and staff from The Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway.
