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Forskere ved universitetet i Utrecht i samarbeid med professor Trond H. Torsvik ved CEED Universitetet i Oslo, har funnet et tapt kontinent som dukket under Sør Europa for millioner av år siden. Det skal være fra dette kontinentet at fjellkjeder som Alpene oppsto.

The 2019 Ada Lovelace Workshop included 10 CEED members (about 10% of participants and 25% of the keynote speakers!). Some highlights of the workshop below.

Researchers from CEED are travelling with a film team around Norway to unravel the opening and closure of ocean basins (the Wilson Cycle). They will make a series of short videos where each episode is one stage of the Wilson Cycle - watch this space.

Arrive by November 3, leave on November 10

Five days of theoretic and practical short course with a one-day of local field trip

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The successful Apollo programme, including six manned landing missions, provided revolutionary new insights into the processes that led to the formation and early evolution of the Moon, Earth and other terrestrial planets. The Mineralogical-Geological Museum at the University of Oslo (now part of NHM) contributed to the Apollo program by training Harrison Schmitt, the only Apollo astronaut with a geological education, in 1957-1958.

On May 29, 2006, hot mud and gas began spurting from a rice field near a gas exploration well in East Java. More than a decade later, the Lusi mud flow continues on the Indonesian island.

Den 20. juli 1969 landet Eagle-fartøyet fra Apollo-11 i 'Stillhetens hav' på Månen. Steinprøvene de tok med tilbake til Jorda gav helt ny kunnskap om dannelsen av Jorda, Månen og mye mer.

The AGU Chapman conference on "Large-scale Volcanism in the Arctic: The Role of the Mantle and Tectonics" will be held in Selfoss, Iceland from 13-18 October 2019. The conference is also part of the NOR-R-AM project led by Carmen Gaina, CEED.