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About the 6th international workshop on Seismic Anisotropy, Heterogeneity and Dynamics of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System – ADLAS 2026, held at chateaux Liblice (Czech Republic) on May 25-29, 2026
The ADLAS 2026 workshop was the sixth one in a long-standing series of international meetings held in Czechia every ten years since 1976. The workshop was convened by J. Plomerová (IG CAS, Prague), and co-convened by Shun-ichiro Karato (Yale University, New Haven,...
The first continental-scale Eurasian Ice Sheets
Understanding when ice sheets first developed over the northern continents is essential for attributing ice volume to marine records of global sea-level change. GFÚ researchers, Kaleb Wagner, Lotta Ylä-Mella and John Jansen (Surface Processes & Palaeoclimate),...
A new mechanism behind the growth of giant mud volcano flows in Azerbaijan
An international team of researchers has discovered that kilometre-scale mud flows at some of the world’s largest mud volcanoes may not form during a single powerful eruption, as previously believed. Instead, the new study suggests that entire mud flows can slowly...
Researchers of the Institute of Geophysics help quantify natural hydrogen generation in mantle rocks
An international study led by Rodolfo Christiansen (GFZ Potsdam) and involving Guido Gianni, a senior researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the CAS, has for the first time realistically quantified natural hydrogen (H₂) generation rates during serpentinization...