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19.07.2016: An unprecedented record of erosion rates dating back millions of years shows a significant time-lag between tectonic uplift and maximum erosion rates in the Argentine Precordillera mountains. According to a new study by an international…

18.07.2016 Present-day continents were shaped hundreds of millions of years ago as the supercontinent Pangaea broke apart. Derived from Pangaea’s main fragments Gondwana and Laurasia, the current continents move at speeds of 20 to 80 millimeters per…

The Bárdarbunga eruption on Iceland has broken many records. The event in 2014 was the strongest in Europe since more than 240 years. The hole it left behind, the so-called caldera, is the biggest caldera formation ever observed. And the event as…

12.07.2016 | Today, the international graduate school StRATEGy „Surface processes, Tectonics and Georesources: The Andean foreland basin of Argentina“, will officially be inaugurated. The Brandenburg Secretary of State for Science will give a speech…

How can earthquake shaking in Europe be predicted? This question is in focus of EPOS, the European Plate Observing System. A prerequisite is first of all to bring together todays and future data and data products and to make them readily available.…

The Centre for Early Warning Systems (EWS) at the GFZ deals with the design and implementation of early warning systems for different natural disasters. The scientists also assess the risks arising from earthquakes as well as from other related…

Beijing is one of the five most water-stressed cities in the world. Due to extensive over-exploitation of groundwater Beijing region is suffering from land subsidence since 1935. The interpretation of satellite imagery for the years 2003 to 2011,…

[Translate to Englisch:] Heutzutage sind in Europa tausende von Böden und Grundwässer durch giftige Metalle und organische Lösungsmittel verunreinigt. Doch der Zugang zu sauberem Wasser ist für die stetig wachsende europäische Bevölkerung von…

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