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Do faith-based extrapolations of olivine rheology from lab to mantle conditions concern you? Ever wondered why n=3.5? A new paper by Tom Breithaupt models the dislocation physics to parsimoniously explain olivine transient and steady creep, and more. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

The joint ICTP-EAIFR-IUGG Workshop on Computational Geodynamics: Towards Building a New Expertise Across Africa is now open for registration and abstract submission! Katz is a speaker indico.ictp.it/event/10183/ov…. The meeting will be held in Kigali at the Univ Rwanda.

Oxford Physics is seeking to recruit candidates for an Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow position in Physics of Exoplanets. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Attention UK-home students with a solid (no pun intended) training in continuum mechanics and PDEs! FoaLab is seeking applicants for a fully-funded PhD project at Oxford in tidal mechanics of planetary bodies. More information here: earth.ox.ac.uk/~richardk/misc… @planetaryHam

A km-thick layer of halite blankets much of the east Med basin. In places, overpressured reservoir fluids repeatedly burst through this seal. Why don't these eruptions relieve the pressure? Luke Kearney has shown that mudstone is a capacitor of pressure. doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2…

Africa–Oxford Catalyst Grant call for applications afox.ox.ac.uk/afox-catalyst-… closing 27 Oct. FoaLab currently hosting Dr Ikenna Obasi from Lokoja Uni, Nigeria, to work on hydrology of fractured terranes.