Geo - Wollongong 2022

Landscapes & rocks

General geology and geological history that describes Wollongong 2022, Australia. The 101st Road World Championship is held in Australia. Geological themes and phenomena explained.

Road World Championship 2022

Why the Geology of tours?

The idea

The idea for blogs of the Geology of the Tour de France was born out of combining two passions: geology and cycling.

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Geoscience?

Geoscience is much more than just looking at rocks. Keep on reading. Douwe and his team will tell you all about it.

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Authors

Inspiring and knowledgeable authors from all over the world share their knowledge and fun facts about Denmark and France.

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LATEST GEO POSTS TOUR DE FRANCE - WOMEN

Stage 1 of the Tour de France women starts in Paris - 2022

Stage 1 | Paris - Paris / The warm Eocene, escargot for dinner

In this stage, from the center of the Paris Basin to the edge, we arrive in the Eocene (56–33.7 million years ago). The Eocene was warm, so warm that the sea level was 60m higher than today.

Women

Stage 2 | Meaux-Provins / Riding the Oligocene wheel of Brie

Today’s stage takes us 100m up a flat plateau, a bit like climbing up on a famous Brie cheese. But how does this relate to geology? The Oligocene....

Women

Tour de France Femmes will end stage 3 in Épernay

Stage 3 | Reims-Épernay / Cretaceous sea specialties

After two days of rides through rocks of the Cenozoic, the peloton will race through a part of the Paris Basin where Cretaceous rocks are exposed.

Women

Stage 1 | Copenhague - Copenhague / A ride over a prehistoric continent

The Danish subsurface contains as much as 12 kilometers of sedimentary rocks that formed in the last 450 million years, but below that hides a prehistoric continent: Baltica.

Men

Stage 2 - Tour de France 2022 - start in Roskilde

Stage 2 | Roskilde - Nyborg / From the age of the dinosaurs to the age of the mammals

The barren almost inhabitable world of the early Danian: during today's stage the riders will pass catastrophic mass-extinction of the dinosaurs.

Men

Stage 3 - Tour de France 2022 - start in Vejle

Stage 3 | Vejle – Sønderborg / Borrowed land from the Scandinavian highlands

The last stage on Danish soil takes us over the youngest rocks in the Danish subsurface, which are about 20-10 million years old. Borrowed land: Danmark consists in sediments arriving from the highlands of Scandinavia.

Men

geotdf

2 weeks ago

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geotdf

2 weeks ago

RT @UUGeo: NWA toekenning voor twee #public #engagement initiatieven!🥳 De Hoe?Zo! show van @LVdeGroot en @Barbara_Braams en de @geotdf van… read more
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3 weeks ago

Ha, we were a bit premature last week, but here's the official announcement that @GeoTdF was awarded an NWA Science Communication grant :) We'll be hiring an editor soon! @UUGeo @UniUtrecht @Naturalis_Sci https://t.co/K8qMN9G8RN read more
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geotdf

1 month ago

@EdwardPickering That line was clearly geologically controlled then. The mountainous areas are less interesting and more difficult to control I suppose. read more
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