Tag: Sedimentation
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Zurich 2024: road races
If we look at the weather predictions it won’t be arctic during the Zurich 2024 road races. However, ice ages were pivotal in creating our parcours. Only a short while ago, geologically speaking, the race course was covered by hundreds of meters of ice. The advancing glaciers and melt water rivers made this course what…
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Zurich 2024: time trials
It’s time to race for the rainbow again. This year we do that in Zurich, Switzerland. Together with the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the ETH, the university, in Zurich we look at the geology of the world championships courses. We start with the time trials on Sunday 22 September. We race along…
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Stage 5: Ardennes
In the Ardennes we climb up the valleys instead of up the hills. It’s a fascinating and old geological story for stage 5.
