Monitoring the birth of a volcano off the coast of Mayotte
Seismological analyses highlighted the stages of formation of the new submarine volcano off the coast of Mayotte and the drainage of a deep magma reservoir. The birth of a new […]
DIP
Dynamics of Planetary Interiors
SEIS, the French seismometer on InSight, will listen to the heartbeat of Mars
On Thursday 19 April 2018, Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES and Antoine Petit, President of CNRS, presented the InSight mission (INterior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport), […]
Solid state convection and mixing of the Martian mantle before complete solidification of its magmatic ocean
An international team of researchers including an IRAP researcher (Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse and CNRS) publishes the results of a study devoted to the early thermo-chemical evolution of the […]
The Moon would play a key role in maintaining the Earth’s magnetic field
The Earth’s magnetic field protects us every day from the charged particles and radiations coming from sunlight. This shield is produced by geodynamo: rapid movements of huge amounts of liquid […]
Measuring the pH of hydrothermal fluids at high temperature and high pressure: a challenge in geology and many industrial applications
Geologists, chemists and geochemists of the GeoResources laboratory (CNRS, University of Lorraine), of the IRAP (CNRS, University of Toulouse) and of the IGEM (Russian Academy of Sciences) have succeeded in […]