Sascha Zertani

@sheared-sash.bsky.social

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Assistant professor of structural geology @ IGV, Stockholm University. Interested in deformation of the deep crust, brittle and/or ductile, and metamorphic reactions. Views and opinions my own. he/his

Lawn in the sunshine outside of Stockholm University (on campus)
Photograph of pristine pseudotachylyte (fossil earthquake) in a rock. A coin is shown for scale.
Backscattered electron image of plagioclase with reaction products of clinozoisite, quartz, kyanite, and white mica.
Orientation map (IPFZ) of diopside that formed from the breakdown of omphacite, a high pressure mineral.
Photgraph of a weak shear zone (deformed rock) in a strong gabbro (non-deformed rock). The shear zone is a approximately 10 cm thick. A coin (5 Norwegian krone) is in the image for scale. Image was taken in western Norway.
Info grafic advertising session TS1.3 at EGU25. Title of the session is: Brittle and ductile deformation of Earth's lithosphere: Mechanisms governing deformation style. Invited speaker: Marie Baïsset (ENS Paris)
Banner advertising session GMPV3.2 at EGU25 general assembly titled: How deformation and metamorphism interact: insights into thermal-hydrological-mechanical-chemical feedbacks in nature and experiments The conference will be in Vienna, Austria and online between 27 April and 2 May 2025.