Tag: Tour de France 2023
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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 8: The future of the past
The future of the past is a bit cryptic. It’s where geology comes in to predict the future climates looking at the past.
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Stage 4: Invisible mountains of salt
Invisible mountains of salt of the Hors Category underneath the Tour de France stage 4 won’t get you any polkadot points
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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 12: Devonian Park
Devonian Park sounds like a lovely place to take a stroll? Well not exactly. Join us on a voyage through hundreds of millions of years and to the ocean that spanned across France.
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Stage 15: Mighty mountains
Mighty mountains on today’s route and during the many helicopter shots that we will get to see. However, never forget the dangers.
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Stage 19: Big feet
We race through the Jura and find traces of the Jurassic age of dinosaurs. But did their big feet really leave three-meter wide footprints?
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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 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.
