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SSP
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Estuarine Deposits

March 14, 2025
Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Estuarine Deposits

In recent months, I had the opportunity to work on a project analysing subsurface data from a rock sequence previously interpreted as the product of an estuarine depositional environment. The client sought subsurface maps to characterize the spatial distribution of various geobodies associated with sedimentary deposits typically found in modern estuaries. In other words, the goal was to reconstruc ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

BeGEO scientists 2025: the 3rd conference of young Earth scientists in Italy

and March 14, 2025
BeGEO scientists 2025: the 3rd conference of young Earth scientists in Italy

Born at the feet of active volcanoes, a group of young Earth scientists works for connecting colleagues in Italy and around the globe. One of the main challenges faced by those approaching the academic career for the first time is creating a network of known people with whom sharing scientific knowledge and maybe lay the foundations for new collaborations. Conferences are definitely the perfect pl ...[Read More]

HS
Hydrological Sciences

HydroData Chronicles: Unveiling EStreams – A Comprehensive Hydro-Climatic Dataset for Europe

and March 13, 2025
HydroData Chronicles: Unveiling EStreams – A Comprehensive Hydro-Climatic Dataset for Europe

We’re back to the HydroData Chronicles, where we enter into the exceptionally wonderful world—as massive as it is—of datasets about water phenomena, such as rivers and weather. Today, we focus on ΕStreams, a comprehensive dataset and catalogue of streamflow, hydro-climatic, and landscape data for Europe. This pioneering initiative fills the hydrological data availability gap, offering an inv ...[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

Granite Rocks: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Textures, Types, Main Varieties, Uses, and More

March 13, 2025
Granite Rocks: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Textures, Types, Main Varieties, Uses, and More

Granite is a coarse-grained, crystalline, plutonic, felsic, and acidic igneous rock. It contains more than 66% of silica “SiO2”, and about 14.42% of alumina “Al2O3”. The quartz makes up 10% : 50% of the whole rock. The alkali feldspars range from 65% to 90% of the entire rock. It’s leucocratic “light-colored”. The equivalent volcanic rock of granite is rhyolite. The melting point of most dry grani ...[Read More]

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Geodesy

The EGU mentoring programme: Experiences from mentor and mentee perspectives

, , and March 13, 2025
The EGU mentoring programme: Experiences from mentor and mentee perspectives

The EGU mentoring programme: Experiences from mentor and mentee perspectives Each year, EGU offers a mentoring programme to pair a more experienced conference “veteran”, defined as having participated in a General Assembly (GA) at least two times, and a conference “newbie”. As we’re getting closer to the GA period, the submission deadline for the mentoring programme is on 17.03.25, and the ultimat ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

A whole mantle dynamical framework for Venus

, and March 12, 2025
A whole mantle dynamical framework for Venus

Geodynamicists have long grappled with the complexities of Earth’s mantle dynamics—modeling Venus’ interior adds an extra layer of challenge without the benefit of plate tectonics! This week in News & Views, Madeleine Kerr, a PhD candidate from the University of California, San Diego, explores how numerical modeling can shed light on mantle dynamics and the evolution of Earth’s eni ...[Read More]

ERE
Energy, Resources and the Environment

Introduction of the ERE division

March 12, 2025
Introduction of the ERE division

Hello and welcome to the reopened blog of the Energy, Resources and the Environment Division of the EGU! We want to use this blog in the future actively to keep you updated with what is happening in our division and to highlight various ERE related topics of interest, activities and research. But today we want to first introduce ourselves. In the ERE division, people who work to better understand ...[Read More]

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Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

AGATA: Advancing Polar Science through Multi-Instrument Integration and Collaboration

March 11, 2025
AGATA: Advancing Polar Science through Multi-Instrument Integration and Collaboration

Scientific research has long recognized that solar-terrestrial interactions play a crucial role in shaping the polar atmosphere, impacting both climate dynamics and atmospheric coupling across different layers. Understanding these interactions is key to unraveling their far-reaching effects on Earth’s climate, space weather, and global atmospheric processes. The recognition of these critical proce ...[Read More]

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Natural Hazards

The Geography of Multi-Hazards: Exploring Landscapes Prone to Hazard Cascades

March 10, 2025
The Geography of Multi-Hazards: Exploring Landscapes Prone to Hazard Cascades

Multi-hazards are “a selection of major hazards that a country faces, and specific contexts where hazards occur simultaneously, cascadingly, and accumulatively considering the interrelationships among them”, based on the UNSDRR definition [7]. Yet, this definition raises two key questions: Where are these specific contexts located, and what characteristics make them susceptible to intersecting haz ...[Read More]

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Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

Meet Erika Palmerio, the 2024 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee of the Solar-Terrestrial Division!

March 9, 2025
Meet Erika Palmerio, the 2024 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee of the Solar-Terrestrial Division!

Congratulations on receiving the EGU 2024 ST Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award for your exceptional research in analyzing complex solar transients and their effects on space weather. What does this recognition mean to you personally, and how does it impact your work in this fascinating field? Thank you so much! Receiving an award from EGU is of particular significance to me, since ...[Read More]