IYPE Lectures October 2008
Continental topography: interacting between deep Earth and surface processes by Prof. Sierd Cloetingh. This lecture is part of the GSI lecture series organised to celebrate International Year of Planet Earth.
Europe’s history extends over billions of years and records the conflict of clashing segments of Earth’s crust and the relative calm of opening oceans. Oceans and mountains, ice-fields and desert, all came and went in this fascinating history. The application of new technologies has stimulated a new interpretation of these facets and surface processes: this is the focus of this talk.
Sierd is Head of the Department of Tectonics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a key leader in the Netherlands Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science. Recently interested in multidisciplinary research on relationships between deep Earth processes and the landscape evolution, he has been a successful leader of international collaboration in geoscience.
Venues: Wednesday 15th October, 6pm, Ernest Walton Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College, Dublin and Thursday 16th October, 8pm, G1 Kane Building, University College Cork
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