Many thanks also to my colleagues @sasbrune.bsky.social, Anne Glerum, Dylan Vasey, John Naliboff, Gianreto Manatschal, & Eric C. Gaucher, from @gfz.bsky.social, Uni Potsdam, Tufts University, New Mexico Tech, Uni Strasbourg, & Lavoisier H2 Geoconsult for their help and support during this research!
23.01.2026 15:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Many thanks to Leon Pietsch and Paula Jansen from BLUE MOON MEDIA GMBH for joining us at @fgse-unil.bsky.social to do the recordings. It was great fun! ๐
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For more on the computer simulations of natural H2 potential in mountain ranges, done during my time at @gfz.bsky.social sky.social (now continuing at @fgse-unil.bsky.social) check out the paper we published in Science Advances (a daughter journal of @science.org): www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
23.01.2026 15:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
๐จ Interested in green energy research? ๐จ โ๏ธ
I contributed to a 3sat NANO documentary on natural H2 gas, a potential green energy to be found in mountain ranges such as the Alps and Pyrenees ๐
Check out the docu here (from ca. 8 min on, past the fake food story โก๏ธ): www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/...
๐จ Interested in rift tectonics and/or the East African Rift System? โ๏ธ ๐
Join us on Tuesday 7 Oct (12:30 CEST) for an EPOS virtual coffee break chat about some cool new research on the development of the Main Ethiopian Rift ๐
More info below, at: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
๐จ Interested in rift tectonics and/or the East African Rift System? โ๏ธ ๐
Join us on Tuesday 7 Oct (12:30 CEST) for an EPOS virtual coffee break chat about some cool new research on the development of the Main Ethiopian Rift ๐
More info below, at: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
This work was funded by a @gfz.bsky.social Discovery Fellowship, a @fgse-unil.bsky.social Equality grant, @dfg.de support, the chinascholarship programme, and @epos-es.bsky.social.
22.08.2025 08:15 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thanks also to Frank Neumann, Thomas Ziegenhagen, Uwe Lemgo and Kirsten Elger for technical support, Laetitia Le Pourhiet and @anungsamsu.bsky.social for valuable reviews, Janine Kavanagh and @gduclaux.bsky.social for managing the review process, and @moh-geo.bsky.social for technical editing.
22.08.2025 08:15 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A big thank you to my co-authors Ameha Atnafu Muluneh, Jun Liu, Ehsan Kosari, Matthias Rosenau, Giacomo Corti and Federico Sani.
22.08.2025 08:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This strain reorientation concept may be of interest to the interpretation of (the history of) tectonic deformation in other rift systems with such lineaments.
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Based on analogue tectonic experiments, we propose that local strain reorientation (made possible by the oblique orientation of the Main Ethiopian Rift itself) can enable the deformation along these lineaments that is observed in nature.
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The question is how lineaments that are highly oblique to the Main Ethiopian Rift are still able to localize deformation, despite being oriented rather unfavorably with respect to regional plate motion directions (they should not be active!?).
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๐จ New paper alert! โ๏ธ
Are you interested in rift tectonics and the East African Rift?
Check out how lineaments that are highly oblique to the Main Ethiopian Rift can still deform via local strain reorientation. ๐
Link to our new @wearetektonika.bsky.social paper: tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
Interested in how we can use geodynamic simulations for resource exploration? โ๏ธ
I wrote a blog for @ciggeodynamics.bsky.social, on simulating natural H2 gas resource development in nature ๐
The blog: geodynamics.org/highlight-au...
The original Science Advances paper: doi.org/10.1126/scia...
๐ขNew paper alertโ๏ธ!
Are you into tectonics, rifting, and basin development?
Check out the work by Cรฉdric Bulois & colleagues on rift propagation in the Porcupine Basin, recently published in @BasinResearch ๐
Link: doi.org/10.1111/bre....
โ๏ธ Are you at #EGU25 and interested in natural H2 (a potential green energy for the future), check out my talk in session GD6.1 this afternoon (14:15, room K1)! ๐
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...
โ๏ธ If you are at #EGU25 and curious about laboratory modelling of plate tectonics, join us this evening (19:00-20:00, in room -2.82) for the Tectonic Modelling 101 short course (including a live model demonstration!) ๐
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
@ts.egu.eu
EGUTS news alert โ ๏ธ
Are you attending the EGU25?
Are you interested in structural geology and tectonics?
Here are all the TS events during the meeting.
Join us!๐
๐ข Tectonic Modelling Tuesday #110 - with numerical work by Guangliang Wu and colleagues (from University of Texas at Austin & University of Memphis), who explored modes of continental extension in a crustal wedge ๐
More info in their 2015 EPSL paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...
โ๏ธ The recording of the H2 webinar I did with the AAPG Petroleum Structure / Geomechanics Division is now available online ๐ : www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdWI...
18.03.2025 20:24 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
โ๏ธ Want to know more about our natural H2? Join us tomorrow (13 March, 16:00 CET) for the ENERGY NEW webinar where I will present about this recently published research (and more) ๐
Details on the webinar here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Moreover (for the hashtag #Dutch crowd) I did a short interview for BNR Nieuwsradio a bit more than a week ago. You can access the recording here (from ca. 11:30 min on is the good stuff) ๐ โ๏ธ: www.bnr.nl/gemist?date=...
03.03.2025 19:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This weekend, I contributed to a short @cnn.com
podcast called "Five Good Things", with some information on the research in our recently published paper with @aaas.org's #ScienceAdvances. You can find it here (from ca. min 7 on it's all about white H2) ๐: edition.cnn.com/audio/podcas...
p.s. some cool media coverage of our paper (by @cnn.com) can be found here: edition.cnn.com/2025/02/19/c...
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I was also a visiting scientist at @unifr.bsky.social during part of the work done for this publication, and will continue my research in Switzerland, funded through a @fgse-unil.bsky.social grant (stay tuned) ๐
21.02.2025 18:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This research was principally funded through a @gfz.bsky.social Discovery Fellowship, with additional (financial) support from @erc.europa.eu, @www.helmholtz.de, @unistra.fr, @cnrs.fr, Lavoisier H2 Geoconsult, and the Alliance for National High Performance Computing in Germany.
19.02.2025 21:18 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
A big thank you to my co-authors @sasbrune.bsky.social, Anne Glerum, Dylan Vasey, John Naliboff, Giantero Manatschal & Eric C. Gaucher for their help and support during this exciting research๐
Many thanks also to @gfz.bsky.social colleagues, reviewers, the paper editor, and the CIG.
Our work shows the importance of understanding the geodynamic factors that control the distribution of natural resources (and the use of modelling work).
Such insights are of particular importance for the energy transition, given the vast amounts of resources we will need.
We propose an orogenic natural H2 system concept, which shows the key ingredients for the successful development of natural H2 accumulations that can be drilled and explored. Alternatively, we may also consider directly drilling into the serpentinizing mantle rocks themselves.
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Combined with the much more likely presence of reservoir rocks that would allow for H2 accumulation during bulk serpentinization (in contrast to deep marine rift basins), mountain ranges are the place to be for natural H2 exploration!
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