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Imaggeo on Mondays

Imaggeo on Mondays: A voyage through scales – The Badlands National Park, South Dakota.

June 22, 2015
Imaggeo on Mondays: A voyage through scales – The Badlands National Park, South Dakota.
Badlands national park, South Dakota, USA. Credit: Iain Willis (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Layer upon layer of sand, clay and silt, cemented together over time to form the sedimentary units of the Badlands National Park in South Dakota, USA. The sediments, delivered by rivers and streams that criss-crossed the landscape, accumulated over a period of millions of years, ranging from the late Cretaceous Period (67 to 75 million years ago) throughout to the Oligocene Epoch (26 to 34 million ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Just Passing

June 15, 2015
Imaggeo on Mondays: Just Passing
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

June 8, 2015
Imaggeo on Mondays: Seeing the world through a pothole
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

June 1, 2015
Imaggeo on Mondays: Scales of fluvial dissection
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]