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The theory of continental drift and how it changed the geosciences forever

Gillian D'Souza November 4, 2022

John Clemens (from imaggeo.egu.eu)

German scientist Alfred Wegener spent most of his life defending a shocking theory: that all the world’s continents were once part of the same land mass before they drifted away. For many years after he passed, his theory continued to be shunned, ridiculed, and labelled as pseudoscience. And then, several decades later, geologists began to find more and more proof to support his continental drift ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Scary sea ice drilling in the antarctic darkness!

Célia Julia Sapart October 31, 2022

This picture was taken from the N.B. Palmer ice breaker during the PIPERS expedition in the austral winter of 2017. Two researchers and a marine technician were drilling cores in the sea ice of the Ross Sea. The ice was too thin and started to crack (see the fault in the background), so the team had to drill from the basket. Photo by Célia Julia Sapart, description from imaggeo.egu.eu. Imag ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during October!

Hazel Gibson October 31, 2022

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 October, the Divisions we are featuring are: Natural Hazards (NH), Seismology (SM) and Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology (GMPV). They are served by the journals: Geoscientific Model Development (G ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Drought – a prerequisite for hazardous flash floods

Stefan Schmitt October 24, 2022

Drought - a prerequisite for hazardous flash floods. Credit: Stefan Schmitt (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The drying out of the soil leads to the hazard of flash floods in the wadis of the Dead Sea Valley during sparse but strong rain events. During longer precipitation-free periods and extreme low relative humidity, driven by mesoscale wind, the soil crust ultimately tends to break into piece. Photo by Stefan Schmitt, description from imaggeo.egu.eu. Imaggeo is the EGU’s online open access geo ...[Read More]