ISTerre - Institut des Sciences de la Terre

The Invisible Brakes: What Slows Down Earth’s Inner Core Oscillations?

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Deep Seismic Tremors in the 2025 Santorini Seismo‐Volcanic Crisis Highlight Magmatic Feeding from a Mid‐Crustal Reservoir

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Assessing the hazard of unstable rock blocks using seismic noise

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A decade of high-resolution remote sensing observations of topographic changes and ground deformation at Semeru volcano

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Chronology of glacier retreat in the Arve Valley (Haute-Savoie, France) at the end of the last Ice Age

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Nanga Parbat in Motion : Watching a Mountain Deform Before Our Eyes

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Institut des Sciences de la Terre

The Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTerre) is one of the main laboratories of the Grenoble Observatory of the Sciences of the Universe. ISTerre is dedicated to the physical and chemical study of planet Earth. By combining the observation of natural objects, experimentation, and the modeling of complex phenomena, the institute analyzes the processes related to the major systems of Earth’s interior.

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ISTerre offers school visits adapted to the age and level of the students.

These visits offer an immersive experience into the world of geoscience research, exploring the phenomena that shape our planet: earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, and more.
Students will have the opportunity to discover the instruments, laboratories, and experiments that help scientists better understand the Earth in depth.

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