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How Earthquakes transform the Earth’s lower crust

Published on April 26, 2018

In this study, researchers propose a new mechanism of "top-down" crustal geodynamics, from the upper crust to the lower crust.
Researchers from the IGE, Institute of Earth Sciences of Grenoble / OSUG (Université Grenoble Alpes / CNRS / IRD / IFSTTAR / Université Savoie Mont Blanc), the University of Oslo and the University of Southern California propose a new mechanism for the geodynamics of the Earth’s crust. It links for the first time the changes of the lower crust with the (…)

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Observations of the birth of crystals

Published on April 11, 2018

A team of researchers from the University of Brussels, the Eindhoven University of Technology and the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre/OSUG, CNRS / Université Savoie Mont Blanc / IRD / IFSTTAR / Université Grenoble Alpes) in Grenoble, have uncovered the molecular details of polymorph selection of macromolecule crystals. This result has been published on April 5th in Nature
Crystallizing macromolecules - a required step to understand the structure of proteins, the building blocks (…)

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