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New insights into real‑time detection of tephra grainsize, settling velocity and sedimentation rate
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UNIGE IBA 2022 TEAM - Leman GeoEnergy
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Mass Spectrometry at Swiss Academic and Industrial Institutions
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Patterns of eukaryotic diversity from the surface to the deep-ocean sediment
Eukaryotic DNA from deep-sea sediments of the main oceanic regions was compared to the data on plankton obtained at the global scale by the Tara Oceans and Malaspina expeditions. About 1700 water and sediment samples were sequenced and revealed that the benthic diversity would be 3 times higher th…
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New Study plan - Master in Earth sciences - September 2022
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Exhibition: "Les munitions du Léman"
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19th Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2021
The Section of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Geneva and the Platform Geosciences of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) cordially invite you to participate in the 19th Swiss Geoscience Meeting to be held on Friday, 19 November and Saturday, 20 November, 2021.
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Professor Urs Schaltegger has been elected Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America 2021. Congratulations to him!
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Geothermal energy - a key ally in the decarbonisation of Switzerland
A national report draws up an inventory of the measures needed to achieve decarbonisation in Switzerland by 2050. In this ambitious process, geothermal energy has an important role to play, according to Professor Andrea Moscariello of the Faculty of Science.
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Crustal magmatic controls on the formation of porphyry copper deposits
Porphyry deposits are large, low-grade metal ore bodies forming from hydrothermal fluids derived from an underlying magma reservoir. They are essential as significant sources of critical metals for industry and society, such as copper and gold. However, the magmatic and redox processes required to f…
