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Imaggeo on Mondays: Loose Tooth Rift

Loose Tooth Rift, Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Loose Tooth Rift, Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica

A helicopter view of the actively growing “Loose Tooth” rift system near the edge of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica; this branch of the rift was over 20 km long when the photo was taken on 31 December 2006. Photo Credit: James Behrens.

Image submitted by John Orcutt, distributed by EGU under a Creative Commons Licence.

Imaggeo is the online open access geosciences image repository of the European Geosciences Union. Every geoscientist who is an amateur photographer (but also other people) can submit their images to this repository. Being open access, it can be used by scientists for their presentations or publications as well as by the press. If you submit your images to imaggeo, you retain full rights of use, since they are licenced and distributed by EGU under a Creative Commons licence

Bárbara Ferreira was the Media and Communications Manager of the European Geosciences Union from 2011 to 2019. Bárbara has also worked as a science writer specialising in astrophysics and space sciences, producing articles for the European Space Agency and others on a freelance basis. She has a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge.


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