Until last year, it never crossed my mind writing a paper out of my old BSc-thesis topic. Now, here's the paper 🙃: Comparing extension rates on 2 different timescales in the Eastern California shear zone. https://t.co/5QJsrhSbgN #BishopTuff #GPS #VolcanicTableland #FaultScarps

#MaunaLoa on #Hawaii is erupting for the 1st time since 1984. 🌋 Hiking to the summit was the most surreal trek I ever did. And seeing no one else in two days, seemingly having this massive volcano to myself (+ a horrible headache over night at the crater due to the altitude 🤪)

Turbulent flow nicely visualized in a ditch. ⛲️🧐

A friend sent me these photos from #Petra #Jordan. Does anyone know anything about this? I.e. how the structure (and color variations) in the red layers formed? I'm curious, but not finding literature on it. 🧐 #GeoTwitter

Happy #ThinsectionThursday 🙋‍♂️ what looks in the optical microscrope like rather ordinary, slightly dissolved / altered vein calcite crystals, turns out to be sick crystal growth in cathodoluminescence imagery!? 🧐😯 What the heck happened here? 🤔(scale is in CL image)

In the #Karakoram, #Pakistan, there's a hiking trail trench through a glacial lateral moraine. Fairly crazy by itself. 🫣🪨 And then you see beautiful sets of deformation bands there. 🥰

Despite all good advice, sometimes staying the night at the work place feels like the right thing to do. 🙂

Finally, after 2-year covid-postponement, I was able to go for field work in NW Namibia again. 🥳 Was great to be back. Geology and scenery as fantastic as ever. But temps >40°C just brutal. 😅 Now waiting for my sample shipment. 🤗

and after the flooding event, the water quickly dries up in the dunes within a few days (image from Feb. 21st, 2022)

The NW of Namibia was extremely dry the last years, but is now seeing exceptional rainfalls. Water in rivers is reaching the sea for first time since 11 years. Sentinel imagery is spectacular (here the Hoanib floodplain). 1 month ahead of planned field work in the area. #sentinel

Reviewing work I reviewed before for another journal (editor knows). Authors improved little of the concerns of all reviewers. Seems it's just submitted elsewhere hoping others to miss the issues. I find this extremely disrespectful towards the peers who spend their time with it.

News from the Wollaston Forland 🇬🇱 #openaccess 🗞️with insights on the interaction of deformation and fluids https://t.co/DcQu2cN1Av @norbayern

What's better than giving a first field course on Elba since Covid? Giving a second one on Elba just one month later together with @DanielKoehn1. 🤗⚒️ @norbayern

Finally a field trip again, Elba. 1: Leaving for Elba 2: On the ferry 3: Camping spot 4: Mapping on the coast after a swim #geozentrumnordbayern #erlangen #fau #geowissenschaften #geology #elba #fieldtrip

First time on a golf course, driving the cart for a friend. It was fun, but I was more interested in the slumps in the sand bunkers. 🤓

Folds are not just pretty, they are also very useful: This Namibian folded Neoproterozoic greywacke serves as a splendid penholder on my desk @norbayern @unifau #fridayfold

🚨pre-print alert🚨 have you ever seen such strange fracture fill? if yes, tell us!🙂our interpretation and more on deformation-fluid-diagenesis interaction in rift basins here: https://t.co/9aiYIKDgmX comments welcome! @UiB_Rotevatn @TBKristensen @BergenBasins @norbayern

#thinsectionthursday some artsy twinning in vein calcite 🔬🎨

For some reasons I keep seeing faces in my rock samples. This quartz guy gets his nose smashed by a football or so. Ouch! 😵 (SEM CL image of sandstone) #thinsectionthursday

Mini Lecture of GRK 2423 FRASCAL Fractures, faults and roughening anti-cracks: pattern formation in Geology Friday, 12 March 2021, 9 am to 4:30pm If you are interested to participate, please write an e-mail to andrea.dakkouri@fau.de to receive the Zoom link #geozentrum #fau