Imaggeo on Mondays

Imaggeo on Mondays: Just Passing

Laura Roberts-Artal June 15, 2015

Just passing Just passing. Credit: Camille Clerc (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

If lucky enough to visit Ilulissat Icefjord, you’d find yourself in a truly ancient landscape. From the up to 3.9 billion year old Precambrian rocks, to ice dating back to the Quaternary Ice Age (2.6 thousand years old) and archaeological remains which evidence the past settlement of this remote Greenlandic outpost, it’s no surprise this stunning location has been declared a UNESCO world heritage ...[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: Scales of fluvial dissection

Laura Roberts-Artal June 1, 2015

Scales of fluvial dissection. Credit: Katja Laute (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu )

High peaks, winding river channels and a barren landscape all feature in today’s Imaggeo on Mondays image, brought to you by Katja Laute, a geomorphologist from Norway. This photo was taken from an airplane flying over the Zagros Mountains in Iran. The Zagros Mountain range stretches south and west from the borders of Turkey and Russia to the Persian Gulf, and is Iran’s largest mountain ran ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: A fold belt within a grain

Laura Roberts-Artal May 25, 2015

A fold belt within a grain. Credit: Sina Marti (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Tiny crinkly folds form the main basis of today’s Imaggeo on Mondays. Folding can occur on a number of scales; studying folds at all scales can reveal critical information about how rocks behave when they are squeeze and pinched, as described by Sina Marti, from the University of Basel. Although many geoscientists have seen such fold structures many times before, if you noticed the scale bar in th ...[Read More]