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GeoScience Slam v18n4 — Selected Poems

By Emmanuel Jacquet, Alice Major, and Lina Jakaitė | August, 2022

The natural world is a diverse palette of inspiration for artistic expression. Here we share a few selected poems on the ponderings of planet formation and the personification of geological processes, followed by a 3D artistic representation of garnet and feldspar solid solutions. May their inspiration snowball your way to find a new way for you too to reflect on the wonders that exist all around us.

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December 2025 --The Variscan Orogeny in Europe – Understanding Supercontinent Formation

The Variscan orogen formed between 380 and 300 million years ago through several accretionary and collisional cycles, culminating with the construction of the Pangea supercontinent. This process occurred via sequential opening and closure of oceanic basins, synchronous detachment of Gondwana derived continental ribbons, and their outboard amalgamation onto the Laurussia margin. The Variscan orogen is rather unique compared with other orogenic belts on Earth: its overthickened and dominantly magmatic crust in the central belt, surprisingly minor mantle involvement in the magmatic and geodynamic processes, coherent and pulsed magmatism along the collision suture, and its complex accretionary history. Because its final product, Pangea, is the youngest and best-understood supercontinent on Earth, the Variscan orogeny offers clues for understanding the mechanisms of supercontinent formation.