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Imaggeo on Mondays: A fold belt within a grain

May 25, 2015
Imaggeo on Mondays: A fold belt within a grain
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]

GeoEd: Why So Serious?

May 22, 2015

In this edition of GeoEd, Sam Illingworth, a lecturer in science communication at Manchester Metropolitan University, explores the benefits of a more informal teaching style and how the incorporation of play into everyday teaching can help to engage and enthuse students who oterhwise struggle to connect with the sciences. Despite the hard work, there are some real perks to being a scientists: fiel ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: A thermal inversion

May 18, 2015
Imaggeo on Mondays: A thermal inversion
Sunset over a tsunami of clouds - Slovenia. Credit: Cyril Mayaud (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu ).

This week’s Imaggeo on Mondays image is brought to you by Cyril Mayaud, from the University of Graz (Austria), who writes about an impressive hike and layers of cold and warm air. Thermal inversion is a meteorological phenomenon which occurs when a layer of cold air is trapped near the Earth’s surface by an overlying layer of warmer air. This can happen frequently at the boundary between mountaino ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: How hydrothermal gases change soil biology

May 15, 2015

The biosphere is an incredible thing – whether you’re looking at it through the eye of a satellite and admiring the Amazon’s vast green landscape, or looking at Earth’s surface much more closely and watching the life that blossoms on scales the naked eye might never see, you are sure to be inspired. Geochemist, Antonina Lisa Gagliano has been working on the slopes of Pantelleria Island in an effor ...[Read More]