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When Mud Flows Behave Like Glaciers: Discovering the Secrets of Azerbaijan’s Mud Volcanoes

Caroline Fenske July 16, 2026

Goturdag mud volcano (historical imagery).

Introduction When people hear the word „volcano“, they usually think of a magmatic volcano with impressive pyroclastic eruptions or lava flows. However, mud volcanoes are different. Mud volcanoes erupt what we call mud breccias, a mixture of gas, water, and fine sediments. The eruptions generally occur due to deep generation of hydrocarbons and gravitational instability of rapidly buried, buoyant ...[Read More]

EGU26 Geomorphology: The Social & Networking Shortlist

Anna van den Broek April 29, 2026

The wait is almost over! Next week, the geomorphology community descends on Vienna for our annual week of science. While the halls will be packed with oral sessions, posters, and PICOs, the informal exchanges between sessions offer a vital space for networking and new ideas. To help you navigate the busy week ahead, we’ve curated a shortlist of the Geomorphology Division’s top social and networkin ...[Read More]

A Free Tool That Maps Ancient Coastlines Like an Expert

Julius Jara-Muñoz April 22, 2026

CRN exposure ages of marine terraces of Cerro el Huevo, Peru (Saillard et al., 2011).

by Julius Jara Muñoz, Professor of Engineering Geology at the University of Applied Sciences Biberach (Hochschule Biberach), Germany. Email: jara@hochschule-bc.de, website: https://www.hochschule-biberach.de/kontakt/julius-jara-munoz. “Reproducibility is a cornerstone of the scientific method, yet measuring ancient coastlines has long depended on expert judgment – until now”. Coastlines are ...[Read More]

Unveiling Volcanic Slopes: Exploring Landslide Hazards in Santorini Island, Greece

Stratis Karantanellis April 1, 2026

Figure 1. Aerial view of the investigation site “Red Beach” in Santorini, Greece. PC: Stratis Karantanellis

by Stratis (Efstratios) Karantanellis, Professor, Geohazards and Remote Sensing Lab, Department of Geological Sciences at California State University, Fullerton. Email: ekarantanellis@fullerton.edu, website: https://sites.google.com/view/stratiskarantanellis Santorini is one of those places that doesn’t quite feel real at first glance. White houses stacked on cliffs, blue domes, the Aegean stretch ...[Read More]

Highlighting: Fluvial Biogeomorphology! (Interview with Florian Betz)

Florian Betz February 3, 2026

Drone image of the Naryn River in one of the braided sections (photo credit: Florian Betz)

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes and Anna van den Broek (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu, a.j.vandenbroek@uu.nl), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. by Florian Betz, Principal Investigator at the Earth Observation Research Cluster at University of Würzburg. Email: florian.betz@uni-wuerzburg.de Wh ...[Read More]

Highlighting Shakespeare’s Geomorphology

Emily Bamber September 27, 2024

An oblique aerial photograph of the river Trent at dusk/dawn (a dark blue sky with orange along the horizon).

The River Trent in Staffordshire (https://www.trentriverstrust.org/your-rivers/staffordshire-trent-valley/)

Recently, I was reading about the River Trent in the UK and came across a surprising Shakespeare quote that I thought I would highlight to the geomorphology community . The quote below is from Henry IV (Part 1, act 3, scene 1) where the character ‘Hotspur’ references the meandering River Trent: “Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here, In quantity equals not one of yours: See how this river co ...[Read More]

LANDSCAPE LIVE Seminar Upcoming Talks

EGU Guest blogger March 22, 2023

Spring and the new Landscape Live weekly online seminar series are just starting. It is freely accessible to the international scientific community covering a wide range of geomorphological topics. The weekly meeting is on Thursday at 4 pm (CET/CEST). Over the last few years, Landscape Live became a key pillar for the virtual activist of teh Geomorphology (GM) division of the EGU. Now, Landscape L ...[Read More]

The new glacial geomorphological map from New Zealand

Jan Blöthe March 30, 2021

Glacial geomorphological mapping comparison in 3D. a – Moraine ridge in the middle section of the Ahuriri River valley with surrounding area. b – Key landscape elements are shown in the accompanying sketch. (Credit: Tielidze et al., 2021). Geomorphological maps are a fundamental tool to represent landforms and understand how different morphological elements and agents shaped a natural ...[Read More]

Diving under the scientific iceberg

EGU Guest blogger April 25, 2018

written by: Anne Voigtländer, Anna Schoch, Elisa Giaccone, Harry Sanders, Richard Mason, Johannes Buckel At the EGU General Assembly international researchers from all earth science communities gather and share their most recent endeavors. This year, we, a group of European young geomorphologists, tried a new session format to address challenges we all face in our research, ranging from inaccessib ...[Read More]

ECS Events @EGU2018

Jan Blöthe April 8, 2018

Finally, the EGU general assembly is starting today. In order to give you some guidance what important events you should definitely not be missing out on, the ECS representatives (Micha Dietze and Annegret Larsen) put together this very nice timetable: