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Imaggeo On Monday: Pamukkale, the cotton castle

EGU Guest blogger July 10, 2023

Pammukkale, the cotton castle by Paula Ballikaya

Pamukkale, the cotton castle by Paula Ballikaya. (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu). Terraces of rock are crowned with the candle wax-like deposits of travertine, the white, fibrous limestone which characterises the Pamukkale UNESCO World Heritage Site and which is featured in the photo above. Despotised and moulded over 400,000 years by the calcite-rich mineral water flowing from the site ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Different structures for coastal management

Stephan Sprinz July 3, 2023

Different structures for coastal management. Credit: Stephan Sprinz (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Different structures for coastal management at Spiekeroog, Germany. The structures include a groyne and a revetment. Groynes are cross-shore structures, linearly ordered from the shoreline and into the sea. Typically made of rock or wood, groynes are built to limit the longshore transport and loss of shore material like sand or shingle. The build-up shore material captured by the groynes re ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: Life inside the European Parliament – an assistant’s view

Chloe Hill June 30, 2023

The European Parliament in Strasbourg. Photo Credit: Chloe Hill

This month’s GeoPolicy blog features an interview with Sebastian Jehle, Accredited Assistant to Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Norbert Lins. Understanding policymaking processes is vital to be able to engage with decision-makers and to provide scientific information that is both useful and timely. Sebastian was kind enough to answer some of my burning questions about life inside the Europ ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during June!

Gillian D'Souza June 29, 2023

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For June, the Divisions we are featuring are: Ocean Sciences (OS), Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences (NP), and Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI). They are served by the journals: Ocean Scien ...[Read More]