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Media coverage
Title Geology of the Tour de France: taking a sports audience by surprise Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet GeologyToday Media type Web Country/Territory Netherlands Date 24/09/24 Description The Geo-Sports project provides journalists, readers, and viewers with accessible excursion guides, in written and video format, on websites and social media. In this article, we explain the rationale and background of the project, and we hope you will join us in lifting the veil to expose the beauty of the natural world and its role in our society.
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We attempt to take the unexpected angle in the story. For instance, in a blog about the geology of Paris-Roubaix, the spring monument under the nickname ‘The Hell of the North’ that is famous for its bumpy cobbled roads (Fig. 5), Utrecht Quaternary geologist Kim Cohen immediately takes the reader away from those cobbles, because they're imported from Belgium. The story he focuses on, is why the cobbles are there in the first place, and why the riders of the race often finish completely covered in dust or mud; namely, northern France is part of the loess belt that formed in the ice ages.URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gto.12489 Persons Kim Cohen, Douwe van Hinsbergen, Marjolein Naudé, J. Been, M.B. Carpenter
Media contributions
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Title Geo-sports BLOG: Tidal Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet Geo-sports.org Media type Web Duration/Length/Size 10 minutes Country/Territory Netherlands Date 6/09/24 Description Blog for Stage 2 of Tour de France Femmes 2024
Three large tidal channels in the Rhine-Meuse mouth region of Dordrecht and Rotterdam in the South of Holland feature on stage two of the Tour de France Femmes. It is not only river branches that cut up the Netherlands. It is also the dykes along them. Crossing rivers also means crossing dykes. Crossing over to a next river means traveling through a polder: a flood protected, water managed area in economic use. We will put two polders in the spotlight today: after the first river bridge, the stage goes through the iconic polder Albasserwaard. After the second river crossing we will pass through the IJsselmonde polder.Producer/Author J. Been/Kim Cohen URL https://www.geo-sports.org/2024/stage-2-tidal/ Persons Kim Cohen Title Geo-sports BLOG: Geology of Paris-Roubaix Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet Geo-sports.org Media type Web Duration/Length/Size 5 mins Country/Territory Netherlands Date 27/03/24 Description Cycles, cycles. They go around and around, like the geology of Paris-Roubaix. This story is about producing, circulating and recirculating of dust. In Paris-Roubaix every year, and on the hills of Northern France every era. The dust, or mud and dirt when wet, comes from one single geological source: loess. Surely, the riders will have cobbles on their mind. Man laid hard stone, quarried from the edges of the nearby Ardennes, solidified from the depth of the earth 435 million years ago. They were imported by French farmers and road workers since the 1800s. But we won’t talk about the cobbles. Producer/Author Jose Been/Kim Cohen URL https://www.geo-sports.org/2024/geology-of-paris-roubaix/ Persons Kim Cohen Title Geo-sports website: Team - Contributors Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet Geo-sports.org Media type Web Country/Territory Netherlands Date 1/03/24 Description Team / Contributor URL https://www.geo-sports.org/team/ Persons Kim Cohen