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02 May 2018

General public, Press, Research

A giant planetary embryo revealed by inclusions in meteorite diamonds

A study by EPFL researchers, in partnership with IPGP, BGI and IUEM, of diamond samples found in a ureilite-type meteorite shows that their formation ...

30 April 2018

Press, Research

How can the origin of lead from multiple sources be determined? A new statistical approach.

Determining the origin of terrestrial materials is a major scientific issue that concerns a wide range of disciplines. It is an issue for geochemists ...

28 April 2018

Press, Research

Earthquake deficit and seismic hazard along the Levant Fault

Researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris, in collaboration with scientists from Jordan's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources a...

26 April 2018

General public, Press, Research

The study of Martian dunes to help better model the global climate circulation of Mars

Dune systems provide unique information about wind regimes on the surface of planetary bodies where there are no direct meteorological data as on Eart...

18 April 2018

Press, Research

Gravimetric satellite data highlight deep deformations prior to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

Giant earthquakes, such as the one off the coast of Tohoku, Japan, in 2011, are an extreme manifestation of plate tectonics. They most often occur in ...

15 March 2018

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Jérôme Gaillardet silver medal and Sébastien de Raucourt CNRS crystal medal 2018

On March 15th 2018, the CNRS awarded its Talents 2018. The silver, bronze and crystal medals are awarded each year to researchers, engineers, technici...

21 February 2018

General public, Press, Research

Seismic ruptures and slow earthquakes in subduction zones

In a study recently published in the journal Science Advances, a team of French and Ecuadorian researchers have highlighted the relationships between ...

26 January 2018

General public, Press, Research

Find out the magnitude of earthquakes by observing the atmosphere!

A study, published in the journal Nature - Scientific Reports on January 24th 2018, and signed by Giovanni Occhipinti (from the Planetology and Space ...

22 January 2018

Press, Research

The impactor that struck the Earth to create the Moon was no bigger than Mars

It was in the mid-1970s that astronomers proposed the current theory of the Moon's formation: our satellite was created by a giant collision between t...

12 January 2018

Observatories, Press, Research

Mudflows, Prêcheur river, Montagne Pelée, Martinique

In Martinique, a major landslide sequence began on January 2nd 2018 at the Falaise Samperre, on the western flank of Montagne Pelée, north-west of the...

08 January 2018

Press, Research

A subtle chemical tipping point governs the eruption style of rhyolitic magmas

A team of researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and the University of Munich have just revealed in Nature that nanoscale changes...

14 December 2017

Awards and Distinctions, Press

Make Our Planet Great Again: Louis Derry at the IPGP!

On December 11th 2017, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, revealed the names of the first 18 winners of the "Make our planet great again"...

01 December 2017

Observatories, Press, Research

New signals preceding seismic waves: how early gravity perturbations can quantify the magnitude of strong earthquakes

Earthquakes abruptly change the balance of forces in the Earth at rupture, generating seismic waves that propagate through the Earth's crust and mantl...

23 October 2017

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

IPGP's final tests on the seismic sensors of the SEIS Martian seismometer on the InSight mission

On October 5th, 2017, the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) reached another key milestone for the InSight mission, delivering the spare mo...

20 October 2017

General public, Press, Research

Mineral CO2 storage in basalts: when deep underground bacteria get involved

At a time when alternative geo-engineering solutions are multiplying to offset the excessive emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as a resu...