Geomorphology

The day the Earth trembled: A first-hand account of the 25 April Nepal earthquake

Laura Roberts-Artal June 12, 2015

Map of Gaurishankar Conservation area (GCA) including respective Village Development Committees (VDC’s) and localities within the Tamakoshi River valley that are mentioned in this post (by NTNC, the National Trust for Nature Conservation, Lalitpur, Nepal).

On the 25th April 2015, Viktor Bruckman, a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and a team of his colleagues were a few hours into a hike between the settlements of Lamabagar, in a remote area of northeastern Nepal, and the Lapchi Monastery when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal. Their journey cut short by the trembling Earth, stranded in the heights of the Himalayas, this is thei ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Seeing the world through a pothole

Laura Roberts-Artal June 8, 2015

The world seen through a pothole. Credit: Mira Tammelin (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu )

A beautiful image of a forest reflected in a pool of water within a pothole in southern Finland is this Monday’s Imaggeo image and it brought to you by Mira Tammelin, a Finish researcher. The photo illustrates a pothole in the Askola pothole area in southern Finland. The pothole area is situated on the steep slopes next to river Porvoonjoki, approximately 70 kilometers to the northeast from ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Foehn clouds

Laura Roberts-Artal May 11, 2015

This week’s post is brought to you by Stefan Winkler, a Senior Lecturer in Quaternary Geology & Palaeoclimatology, who explains how the mountain tops of the Southern Alps become decorated by beautiful blanket-like cloud formations. The Sothern Alps of New Zealand are a geoscientifically dynamic environment in all aspects. They are arguably one of the youngest high mountain ranges in the ...[Read More]

Floods and droughts set to increase due to climate change

Laura Roberts-Artal April 29, 2015

Shrinking Wadi Sediments. Credit: Vincent Felde (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The planet is set to encounter a record-level amount of floods and droughts by 2050 – researchers recently announced at the European Geosciences Union’s General Assembly in Vienna. Nikita Marwaha shares their predictions on the impact that climate change will have on these extreme weather conditions. In a study by the Joint Research Centre (JRS) – the European Commission’s in-house science service ...[Read More]