Professor Augusto Gansser, http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Professor Augusto Gansser, who has died aged 101, was a Swiss geologist and adventurer whose explorations led to new insights about the origins of great mountain ranges and the sources of petroleum.

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MSA Workshop / DMG Shortcourse on "Application of Diffusion Studies to the determination of timescales in Petrology and Geochemistry"

That course is directed at petrologists, geochemists and planetary scientists interested in retrieving information on timescales of processes from their rocks. Such information might include the residence times of magmas in their reservoirs, the cooling- or exhumation rates of rocks, the duration of terrestrial or extra-terrestrial (e.g. parent bodies of meteorites) metamorphism, the duration of fluid flow (e.g. metasomatism by fluids / melts in the crust or mantle), and the evaluation and application of closure temperatures. Our focus will be high temperature processes. Therefore "high temperature Thermochronometry" or "Geospeedometry" are related keywords that may describe the course contents.

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NERC-funded PhD project Investigating the closure of the Tethys Ocean as recorded by the Liuqu Conglomerate, Tibet.

Closure of Tethys ocean, collision of India and Asia, and subsequent evolution of the Himalaya was a multistage process involving the accretion of more than one terrane. It has been proposed that the Paleogene Liuqu Conglomerates, which crop out discontinuously for many kms along strike along the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone between the Indian and Asian plates record the history of collision between India and an intra-oceanic arc.

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Ph.D. position

The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences is the national Research Centre for Geosciences in Germany and a member of the Helmholtz Association.

In the framework of TIPTIMON we are seeking a candidate for a Ph.D. position (Reference No. 83/3/11 D) interested in studying landslide and mass movement processes in seismotectonically active mountain regions by means of experimental and numerical simulation.

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Postgraduate Scholarship in Plate Tectonics/Geodynamics

Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship in Plate Tectonics/Geodynamics working with Professor Dietmar Müller's EarthByte Group at the School of Geosciences, the University of Sydney, for the project "Towards a unified East Gondwanaland reconstruction and its implications for Himalayan Orogeny".
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My name is Basanta Raj Adhikari, born in Kaski district in western part of Nepal, one of the beautiful countries in the world. Born in the middle class family and in rural area, where technological facilities were rarely available. I had to struggle for my study since primary schooling. However; despite various obstacles I successfully completed secondary schooling from Begnas.
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Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun

Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun

WIHG, established in 1968 is an autonomous research Institute of the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.
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