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At @GeoTdF.bsky.social we answer your questions on landscapes and geology cycling races | see Geo-Sports.org for more information!
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geo-cycling coming up in Ireland!

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In Irish cycling, the 5-day Rás Tailteann starts tomorrow in Drogheda, and inspired by @geotdf.bsky.social I'm aiming to do a daily post looking at the geology crossed or passed by the riders. This year the route passes lots of interesting geology - I hope I can do it justice! 1/4

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The Giro will set the first foot in Italy today! Although, geologically speaking, Puglia is the African plate of course! Read up on the geology of the Giro d’Italia in out blog, and we’ll give you the highlights during the race in the next few weeks! www.geo-sports.org/2024/the-geo...

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The Giro d'Italia started in Albania, but the riders who are used to Italy will feel geologically right at home! Just like the Apennines, the Albanides (and the Dinarides to the North and Hellenides to the South) are made of rocks that were once part of the continent (Greater) Adria!

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The Giro d'Italia started in Albania, but the riders who are used to Italy will feel geologically right at home! Just like the Apennines, the Albanides (and the Dinarides to the North and Hellenides to the South) are made of rocks that were once part of the continent (Greater) Adria!

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10 more days to apply to this great opportunity at Utrecht University: Come join us as a new Assistant Professor in Seismology! Spread the word :) www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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Geology of #LBL! @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social explains how the riders in the Ardennes do not climb up mountains, but out of valleys! Check it out in our video 👇🏽 @uugeo.bsky.social #geology #scicomm youtu.be/w4WDYuYwfgk?...

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The Dutch Amstel Gold Race is of course our favorite race of the year! That's why we have two clips about the geology of the Amstel! @melanieduring.com made this one for the Tour de France Femmes last year, but it is about the Geulhemmerberg! Enjoy! #scicomm #geology www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkM7...

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Geology of the Amstel Gold Race! Brought to you by Marjolein Naudé 😃🚴‍♀️⚒️ #scicomm #geology @uugeo.bsky.social youtu.be/eZpLfavOB3A?...

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The Dutch Amstel Gold Race is of course our favorite race of the year! That's why we have two clips about the geology of the Amstel! @melanieduring.com made this one for the Tour de France Femmes last year, but it is about the Geulhemmerberg! Enjoy! #scicomm #geology www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkM7...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

No Paris-Roubaix without a geology story! Marjolein Naudé explains in this clip how the Hell of the North froze over and made the muddy, dusty mess we all love so much! And read more in our blog: www.geo-sports.org/2024/geology... youtu.be/R00JSTLw-f0?...

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Tour of Flanders day! 🤠🤠 Last year, we made this clip about the Geology of the Tour of Flanders: why are those hills so steep? Check it out below, and have fun today! youtu.be/Sq-AvUHGKf4?...

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Milano-San Remo day! For hours, the peloton will cross the Po Plain - an up to 8 km thick pile of sand and clay dumped from the Alps and Apennines. River terraces form steps in the flat surface and make natural rice fields for risotto rice! Read this and more in our blog! @uugeo.bsky.social

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

For those of you who are Tired Of All This Shit, we bring you: The relationship between volcanism and the invention of the bicycle! We made this clip, with @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social, for last year's Tour de France stage over the Cantal Volcano, and its highest remaining peak, Puy Mary ❤️🤠

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

Ooh...the #TourdeFrance 2027 will start in Scotland and then go to Wales...that's gonna be some awesome geo-racing! Maybe we should consider making a few clips about that again then 🤠!

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Strade Bianche day! The famous white gravel roads of Tuscany promise another epic battle on the bike. But where do the white gravels come from? Tuscany’s subsurface consists of marble: bright white crystals of calcium carbonate. These are famously mined in western Tuscany, in the Carrara quarries.

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

Also Australia is shaking: the intraplate faults of the Flinders Range, last month the stage for the Tour Down Under, are moving.

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Earthquake action in Tour Down Under land 😬

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Geology of the Tour of Oman! - The peloton may think that they're riding through desert mountains this week, but for a geologist, they're riding through the deep ocean, and the mantle below that ocean! Oman is one of the favorite geo-destinations: the world's most beautiful 'ophiolite'. #Geoscience

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The pro-cycling peloton is racing the Al'Ula Tour in Saudi Arabia this week, territory of spectacular cliffs of sandstones, deserts, and young volcanoes. The cliffs around AlUla formed in shallow seas, ~500 million years ago, but to the South Polar, as part of the supercontinent 'Gondwana'.

submitted 116 days ago • 2 comments

Well, here we go again with a GeoTdF cycling season! No longer on the dark side, but under the blue blue sky!

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And off we go with the 2025 geo-road cycling season 🥳🚴‍♀️🤠! The Tour Down Under brings the peloton to Adalaide, in the middle of the Australian plate. If you were afraid of earthquakes, you'd think this would be a safe place, as most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries. But you'd be wrong 😑.

submitted 124 days ago • 3 comments

We're looking for a new junior writer to join our editorial team. Full details of the role and how to apply can be found here: www.rouleur.cc/pages/junior...

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