Tag: Plate tectonics
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Geology of the Giro d’Italia
The first Grand Tour of the calendar year brings the peloton to Italy. Even more than in the other two grand tours, we can actually predict the type of stage winner from the geology. The climbers and puncheurs will win in Europe, and the sprinters in Africa. To explain this we bring you the geology…
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Geology of Milan-Sanremo
We explore the geology of Milan-Sanremo with lost oceans, colliding continents plus a bit of risotto and wine.
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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 4: Fossils
Fossils can be found in all of France. We find a lot along the Lot river in today’s stage due to the special geological circumstances here.
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Stage 3: Hard rocks
Eclogite is one of the hardest rocks there is. Yvonne Brière used these hard rocks to prove her thesis to become a female pioneer in geology.
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Stage 20: It’s complicated
The geology of the region we are racing in today is complicated. And so is our blog but after 20 days of Tour de France geology, you are basically experts.
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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 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.
