Dripta Dutta

Finding Geothermal Energy with Structural Geologists! Imagine harnessing the Earth’s natural warmth to heat our homes and generate clean electricity. That is the promise of geothermal energy. It taps into the heat from beneath the Earth’s surface, provid...

Finding Geothermal Energy with Structural Geologists!

@driptadutta.bsky.social writes how structural geologists could help explore and develop geothermal resources and contribute to a low-carbon future. 🌱

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Website: driptadutta.academic.ws

This work was made possible with support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Hiroshima University fully covered the #openaccess fees.

Schematic figure illustrating the sequential development of the two categories of symplectite in the studied eclogite.

This study highlights how the degree of symplectitisation can be affected by the rock's heterogeneous permeability. Additionally, we found that the fracturing of #omphacite played a key role in their complete replacement by amphibole-plagioclase aggregates.

Transmitted light photomicrographs and BSE images from the eclogite sample showing the varieties of symplectite aggregates investigated in this study.

We used #EBSD and #EPMA to explore the variations in the microstructural features and mineral chemistries of omphacite and amphibole-plagioclase symplectites from the retrogressed eclogite of the Tso Morari region in Indian Ladakh Himalaya.

Creep behaviour of omphacite and amphibole-plagioclase symplectite: the role of heterogeneous hydration in the Tso Morari eclogite during retrogression - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology Replacement reactions progress to varying degrees depending on the P-T conditions, exhumation rates, and fluid availability. The preservation of reactants and retrogressed products allows for the reco...

🚨 New publication 🚨 #openaccess

I'm happy to share one of our recent works. This one got published a few weeks back in the journal Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology @springernature.com.

I hope you all love it doi.org/10.1007/s004...

#geology #mineralogy #crystallography #Himalaya

Be sure to talk to #AGU25 student poster presenters! See someone standing around at their poster, stop and ask them to give you a short overview, and ask a friendly question or two.

It's a good -- and fun & easy -- way to support professional development and skill building in the geosciences. 🧑‍🎓

One more week to apply for a 2-yr postdoc job to work with @sumikotsuka.bsky.social (LIAG Hannover) and me @uni-jena.de to understand exhumation rates in the splendid #mountains of #Albania using #thermoluminescence #thermochronology on #carbonate #minerals in a new collaborative research program.

We further propose that these structures resulted from the Mesoproterozoic convergence between the Bundelkhand and Bastar Cratons along the Central Indian Tectonic Zone.

Geological maps of the study area. (a) Central Indian Tectonic Zone and associated tectonic units. (b) Geological map of Son Valley. Field locations, marked by numbered white circles, indicate sites where structural data were collected.

Geological map, structural data, and outcrop-scale deformation structures from the Silwar-Bahri-Singrauli Traverse (Madhya Pradesh, India).

We present from the Lower Vindhyan Group, for the 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘, compelling field evidence like buckle folds, reverse faults, and pop-up structures, commonly encountered in fold-thrust belts, that unambiguously support their collisional origin as opposed to the largely believed syn-sedimentary origin.

🚨 🚨 NEW PUBLICATION ALERT 📜 📜

Our recently accepted #OPENACCESS article on the deformation of the Lower Vindhyan Group rocks is now ONLINE.

@universitypress.cambridge.org

doi.org/10.1017/S001...

We further propose that these structures resulted from the Mesoproterozoic convergence between the Bundelkhand and Bastar Cratons along the Central Indian Tectonic Zone.

We present from the Lower Vindhyan Group, for the 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘, compelling field evidence like buckle folds, reverse faults, and pop-up structures commonly encountered in fold-thrust belts, that unambiguously support their collisional origin as opposed to the largely believed syn-sedimentary origin.

🤩 9 amazing research papers and a brilliant editorial, all freely available, thanks to the collective effort of our community #DOJ #OpenScience ⚒️👇🏽

As Farage gears up for appearing on BBC One about grooming gangs, it is really important that he is called out on it. There have already been inquiries into grooming gangs. Likes of Farage want to make them about race, they aren't, and trying to pretend otherwise allows other offenders to carry on 👇

Geology Johnson Spring Store

If you didn't know, I have a highly niche #geology and #paleontology #SciArt shirt for sale. A treat for you or the paleo nerd in your life. I'll be putting new designs up soon, too. www.geologyjohnson.com

RETRACTED: Evaluating the potential of graphene-like boron nitride as a promising cathode for Mg-ion batteries This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has …

Kudos to editors of Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry for this detailed retraction notice.
* link to @pubpeer.com thread.
* background: of the 7 authors, 6 were added to the revised version without approval by the editor.
Most likely paper mill.
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Do you intend to publish in the diamond open access journal AGC in 2025?

Here are the different manuscript types:
-full-length articles
-reviews
-technical notes
-comments

if you have any question about the editorial policy, please go the website page journals.uu.se/AGC/editoria...

Now we're looking for an "enthusiastic PhD student"...🙄

When I was in academia, an autistic PhD student once kindly educated me about how conveying *enthusiasm* was, for them, incredibly challenging...

Ready for some more interesting facts about earthquake magnitude?

Each whole number increase in magnitude is a 10x increase in the measured amplitude (size of earthquake waves recorded on a seismometer), but represents 32x more energy released.

This video gives a visual demonstration.

I’m building this in a way that is automatic. You can focus on building your Owlstown academic website, and the text-only version is automatically created. No fuss, no extra work.

Ammonite is much loved in Japan. The logo of the Paleontological Society of Japan is an ammonite. For the most people, a fossil = an ammonite fossil.

Poster image from the GSA / AIG showing a great big road overpass in an otherwise pristine landscape. Alongside text which is summarised in this thread.

This from the Geological Society of Australia regarding the proposed / impending disestablishment of the Earth Science Major at the University of Wollongong.

#earth-science

Geothermal power is vying to be a major player in the world’s clean-energy future With technical advances and enthusiasm from policymakers, advocates say the time for next-generation geothermal has come.

Another example why the world needs more geologists and geoscientists. Another route for geology to save the world and a great way to make a job market for those leaving the oil and gas industry 🧪⚒️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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📣open PhD Position📣 We’re looking for a PhD student to experimentally investigate the role of aqueous fluids in the transfer of carbon in subduction zones at @unimuenster.bsky.social🇩🇪 in collaboration with the University of Perugia🇮🇹. More info here stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/7...

Magmatic and metamorphic evolution of the Late Cretaceous Muslim Bagh Ophiolite, western Pakistan: implications for ridge subduction after subduction initiation The magmatic and metamorphic evolutions of the Muslim Bagh Ophiolite (MBO) can help understand the relationship among supra-subduction ophiolite, subduction initiation, and the spreading centre in ...

🚨🚨🚨 Latest one on the Himalayas from the lab! 🚨🚨🚨
🧐⛰️⚒️📝

(📜 DM for a copy! 🤗)

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Less than a month for the AGU annual meeting in Washington D.C. to take place. There are whispers that we are on site with Geomorphica stickers! Share this post if you want some, then we know how many to pack! See you 💙

Here’s how the Sun will end all life on Earth Our home star won't go supernova, but the end of its life will be no less spectacular.

Anyway here’s a cheerful piece about how the Sun will eventually destroy all life on Earth (but not by exploding, so, you know, there’s that)

A pie chart representing gender distribution in a total of 1,521 individuals, showing 89% male (1,352) and 11% female (169).

It should not escape our attention as to how few FRS are women (11%!), but yet it took a woman to set an example.

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thank you so much! 😊