Finally, Stage 8 of the #GirodItalia ! It’s Make-your-own-Gran-Sasso Day 😎🤠🛠️!

The Gran Sasso range hosts the highest mountain of the Apennines, the Corno Grande, 2912 m high. And the only Apenninic glacier, the Calderone. For as long as it lasts, because it’s melting quickly.…

Last Wednesday I successfully defended my PhD thesis at Geosciences UU #PhDone 😀🎓. I want to thank my promotors Douwe van Hinsbergen, Cedric and Wim for supporting me through these years. I’ve had the most amazing day celebrating this milestone with so many friends, colleagues and family!

Dr Erik van der Wiel! All members of the dream team graduated, and I’m proud :)

Italy's finest geology today...I really wanna go and see those Carrara quarries!

So with the Geology of the Tour de France crew, we got a new job, providing geo-information to the Giro d'Italia production crew.

So: DM us your fav geological landmarks along the Giro route, and we'll pass 'em on!

Giro start. Great excuse to dig a bit through Italian geology :D

With the #Giro2024 about to start, its time for previews! Douwe van Hinsbergen wrote an overview blog about the geology of Italy that will be crossed by the Peloton, check it out on our Geo-Sports.org website!

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PhD Position alert!

Are you interested in the link between paleogeography and modern biology? Especially focused on volcanic intra-oceanic islands? Check out this PhD position under supervision of Lydian Boschman and me and apply!

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And there’s Erik van der Wiel ‘s thesis! Very proud of this result, looking forward to the defense next week!

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Calling all Apennine & Po Plain specialists: what hidden gems are there around this course? :D

I keep finding volcanoes in Spain that I had never heard of...and now I wanna go there :D

The opening TTT of La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es in Valencia promises fireworks today. But did you know that around Valencia there's also geological fireworks? Volcanoes!

Just west of the city lies the Cofrentes volcanic field, which you may also see from a distance at the finish of tomorrow's…

The Tour of Türkiye is crossing western Turkey today towards Manisa, on its way to Istanbul. Especially since the devastating earthquakes of eastern Turkey last year, it is well known that Turkey is one of the earthquake hotspots of the world. Also western Turkey, around Manisa,…

#LBL24 , La Doyenne, is the oldest monument, and crosses the oldest geology: old folds from the Carboniferous period, 300 million years old. In this clip, Geo-Sports presenter Douwe Douwe van Hinsbergen explains that the slopes that the riders have to climb have nothing to do with…

Last of the spring classics, my turn again!

Couldn’t resist :)

Ooh, they emptied the Lac du Chambon…this is an awesome sedimentological experiment 😍

In the only ophiolite of the Alps, Chenaillet. The last place on earth this stuff wanted to be at is an Alpine mountain top. Pretty sure it planned to be halfway down the Earth’s mantle by now. Poor thing. Nice place thought, bit cold.

En voor als je hem gemist had bij NOS Wielrennen: hier is de Nederlandse versie van de Geologie van de Amstel Gold Race, met Marjolein Naudé (@marjieparj)!

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