Brechtje and Koen are bachelor graduates in Earth Sciences at Utrecht University. They will continue their studies in Utrecht and start in september with the Masters program Earth Structure and Dynamics. The islands of Saint Martin, St. Barthelemy, and Antigua form an Eocene to late Oligocene paleo arc. This inactive remnant arc is the product […]
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Birth of an island arc: insights from St Barthélemy island (Northern Lesser Antilles) with Mélody Philippon
Mélody is an Assistant Professor at the Université des Antilles in Guadeloupe. You can see more about Mélo’s research here. The eastern boundary of the Caribbean plate is a subduction zone along which the North and South American plates are subducted. In the course of this subduction, the paleogeography of the downgoing plate was such that […]
Volcanoes of the Grenadines with Charly Stamper
Charly is an ex-experimental petrologist. She completed a PhD at the University of Bristol and now works in renewable energy and recycling. You can follow her on Twitter @C_Stamper and read more at http://betweenarock.co.uk What makes a volcano go bang? The Grenadines, Lesser Antilles The world’s most explosive and dangerous volcanoes are located at destructive […]