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The First Application of Critical-to-Point Models to Non-Mining Induced Seismicity

A PhD student at the Institute of Earth Sciences of the University of Silesia, M.Sc. Eng. Przemysław Romański, together with his supervisors, Dr. Maciej Mendecki and Dr. Iwona Stan-Kłeczek, has published an article in the prestigious journal Engineering Geology. The publication, entitled The First Application of AMR Approach to Non-Mining Induced Seismicity: A Case Study...

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Sandur kettle holes as time capsules

Dr Joanna Szafraniec’s research focused on the kettle holes on Skeiðarársandur (Southern Iceland). Their formation is associated with melting buried ice blocks, broken off from the glacier front during glacial floods (jökulhlaup). These landforms are effective sediment traps for aeolian material, where this material can accumulate. Under the contemporary climate warming, younger depressions (~30 years...

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CRossWATER project – the inauguration meeting

On March 21, 2025, the historic Town Hall in Görlitz hosted the inaugural meeting of the CRossWATER project, dedicated to transboundary groundwater resource management in the European twin city of Görlitz-Zgorzelec, within the context of climate change adaptation. The meeting was officially opened by Octavian Ursu, Mayor of Görlitz, and Rafał Gronicz, Mayor of Zgorzelec,...

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(Polski) Unikatowy nowy minerał odkryty przez naszych Naukowców

An article entitled “Ferrodimolybdenite, FeMo3+2S4 from Daba-Siwaqa, Jordan – the first natural compound of trivalent molybdenum” has been published in Mineralogical Magazine in Open Access. Ferrodimolybdenite was found in a sulfide nodule from the anomalously high-temperature paralava of the Hatrurim Complex, Jordan. Ferrodimolybdenite is the first natural trivalent molybdenum compound. Only the minerals with Mo4+...

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