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Imaggeo On Monday: Comb through the mysteries of Comb Ridge, Utah

November 7, 2022
Imaggeo On Monday: Comb through the mysteries of Comb Ridge, Utah
Comb through the mysteries of Comb Ridge, Utah. Credit: Siddhant Gupta (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Scientists have combed through the mysteries offered by this ridge for a long time. This is an aerial image of the linear north-south ridge in South-Eastern Utah. First mapped by modern geoscientists in the late 19th century, the ridge is home to numerous Puebloan cliff dwellings and petroglyphs. It is a National Natural landmark and home to the only fossils of a mammal-sized cynodonts (tritylodon ...[Read More]

The theory of continental drift and how it changed the geosciences forever

November 4, 2022
The theory of continental drift and how it changed the geosciences forever
John Clemens (from imaggeo.egu.eu)

German scientist Alfred Wegener spent most of his life defending a shocking theory: that all the world’s continents were once part of the same land mass before they drifted away. For many years after he passed, his theory continued to be shunned, ridiculed, and labelled as pseudoscience. And then, several decades later, geologists began to find more and more proof to support his continental drift ...[Read More]