Tag: Orogeny
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Stage 2: Add some salt
Can you imagine the Mediterranean completely barren and dry? It happened in the Messinian. Today we add some salt to the stage.
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Stage 4: An ocean on a mountain
How do you get an ocean on top of a mountain? Follow the journey of the oceanic rocks to the top of the Montgenevre.
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Stage 8: Building history
We are building history with limestone today, after making wine yesterday and racing gravel tomorrow. It’s a limestone weekend!
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Stage 14: Tectonic training camp
For today’s stage 14, Earth went on a tectonic training camp to work on the strong forces needed to create those Pyrenean climbs.
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Stage 15: Velo d’ore
We ride through the Pyrenees on stage 15. The region is rich in ore. Some ores are used in our tyres making them a true velo d’ore.
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Stage 18: Uplifting story
Ready for an uplifting story? The Alps of stage 18 are still getting higher. Will the riders have to climb even higher next year?
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Stage 21: Underwater Alps
Do the underwater Alps exist? We look at plate tectonics one more time and find a twist in the tale on the Mediterranean coast on stage 21.
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Geology of Liège-Bastogne-Liège
Normally you expect mountains and then rivers cutting through them creating climbs and valleys? Not in the geology of Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
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Geology of Il Lombardia
The geology of Il Lombardia brings us beautiful lakes, ancient oceans, and a mysterious creature in the water.
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Stage 5: Rock it
Our race course today will rock it. Literally. The geological history of the Tarn and Aveyron at your footsteps, or wheels.
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Stage 6: Eels
Conodonts are eel-like animals but they are extinct. The last fact helps us learn about geological time scales in great precision.
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Stage 7: Stressed
Mountain are like people. They get stressed and sometimes even a complete meltdown. The Pyrenees show what happened then.
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Stage 1: Steep climbs
In the Basque Country where we start the Tour de France 2023 big geological events lead to steep climbs over millions of years.
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Stage 5: Mountain jersey
The mountain jersey in the Tour de France is white with red dots but it should actually be green with red dots. Let us explain why.
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Stage 6: Wilson
Wilson? Is there a guy named Wilson in the Tour? Not as far as we know but Wilson does play an important role in the area we are racing in.
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Stage 11: White jersey
The white jersey is one of the four coveted jerseys in the Tour de France. Today we explore white from kaolinite and battery power on the course.
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Stage 14: Force of nature
Tour de France riders can be a force of nature. Today’s mountain stage shows us the gigantic forces that created mountain ranges.
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Stage 16: A short history of
Stage 16 is only a short one but the history leading to the scenery we see today is all but a short history.
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Stage 21: Toads
Toad? Super Mario? On today’s stage on the Champs Elysées. It sounds weird but the history of the ‘Champs’ goes back 600 million years.
