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How 70% of the Mediterranean Sea was lost 5.5 million years ago

18 November 2024

Press, Research

How 70% of the Mediterranean Sea was lost 5.5 million years ago

A team led by Giovanni Aloisi, CNRS researcher and geochemist at the IPGP, has highlighted just how significantly the level of the Mediterranean Sea d...

Flooding in the desert, an increasingly frequent mortal danger

18 November 2024

Press, Research

Flooding in the desert, an increasingly frequent mortal danger

Researchers from the University of Southern California and the IPGP have revealed that hydroclimatic changes in North Africa due to global warming are...

Antarctica is home to the largest dune field on our planet

30 August 2024

Research

Antarctica is home to the largest dune field on our planet

At the heart of the southernmost and coldest continent on Earth lies an unexpected landscape. A team including researchers from the Institut des géosc...

The geodynamic conditions for the formation of the Andes experimentally explored

29 November 2023

Press, Research

The geodynamic conditions for the formation of the Andes experimentally explored

A team of researchers has used a novel experimental setup to explore the geodynamic conditions under which compressive deformation of the upper tecton...

Oceans on the verge of an asthma attack?

15 November 2023

Research

Oceans on the verge of an asthma attack?

Is it correct to compare the future ocean to an asthma attack? To answer this question, Giovanni Aloisi, a CNRS researcher and geochemist at IPGP, has...

The topography of the escarpments allows us to estimate the mode of slip of the faults

22 March 2023

Press, Research

The topography of the escarpments allows us to estimate the mode of slip of the faults

Fault slip, particularly during earthquakes, can generate topographic jumps on the surface, commonly known as fault escarpments. Since the 1970s, nume...

First observations of a major organic carbon reservoir in the deep Earth

22 September 2022

Press, Research

First observations of a major organic carbon reservoir in the deep Earth

The study of the deep carbon cycle enables us to estimate the natural flow of carbon between the Earth's surface and deep interior, ultimately regulat...

The mystery of Mediterranean low-salt gypsum deposits

16 June 2022

Press, Research

The mystery of Mediterranean low-salt gypsum deposits

Around six million years ago, at the end of the Miocene, the Mediterranean Sea underwent a period of rapid drying, gradually turning into a saline gia...

Organic carbon preferentially recycled in the deep Earth

24 February 2022

Press, Research

Organic carbon preferentially recycled in the deep Earth

An international team of researchers from CRPG, IPGP, Université de Paris and Durham University has shown that during subduction processes, organic ca...

IPGP researchers search for nanoparticles on glaciers

06 January 2022

Press, Research

IPGP researchers search for nanoparticles on glaciers

In autumn 2021, two IPGP researchers will carry out a sampling mission on Alpine glaciers, with the aim of tracing the distribution and source of nano...

The shape of rivers determined by the sediments they carry

20 December 2021

Press, Research

The shape of rivers determined by the sediments they carry

In a study published in the journal PNAS, a team of geomorphologists from IPGP, CNRS, Université de Paris and Sorbonne University show that it is the ...

Landscape evolution over decades thanks to topographic reconstruction from archive images

05 November 2021

Press, Research

Landscape evolution over decades thanks to topographic reconstruction from archive images

A team from IPGP, Université de Paris and CNRS has developed a complete algorithm for using aerial archive images taken over the last century to track...