Tectonics and Structural Geology

Announcing the winner of the EGU Best Blog Post of 2016 Competition

Laura Roberts-Artal January 18, 2017

Image modified from Moonscape by Alvaro Folhas (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

There is no doubt that 2016 was packed full of exciting, insightful and informative blog posts. An impressive 360 posts were published across the EGU’s official blog, GeoLog, as well as the network and division blogs! In December, to celebrate the excellent display of science writing across the network and division blogs, we launched the EGU Blogs competition. From a list of posts selected by our ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: Beatriz Gaite on why videos are a great tool for communicating your research to a broad audience

Laura Roberts-Artal January 13, 2017

Meet Beatriz, who's short film was voted the winning entry of the 2016 Communicate Your Science Video Competition. Credit: Jordi Cortés.

If you’ve not heard about our Communicate Your Science Video Competition before it gives early career scientists the chance to produce a video up-to-three-minutes long to share their research with the general public. The winning entry receives a free registration to the General Assembly the following year. In this GeoTalk interview, Laura Roberts talks to Beatriz Gaite an early career scientist wh ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Tones of sand

Laura Roberts-Artal January 2, 2017

Tones of sand Credit: Marc Girons Lopez (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu

With rocks dating as far back as the Precambrian, mountain building events, violent volcanic eruptions and being covered, on and off, by shallow seas, Death Valley’s geological history is long and complex. Back in the Cenozoic (65 to 30 million years ago), following a turbulent period which saw the eruption of volcanoes (which in time would form the Sierra Nevada of California) and regional uplift ...[Read More]

Shaking on Christmas Day: what we know about the 7.6 M Chile earthquake

Cindy Mora Stock December 30, 2016

Screenshot from the USGS interactive map for the 7.6 M Quellón earthquake of Christmas Day. The star indicates the earthquake epicenter.

While the majority of us were midway through our Christmas Day celebrations, a powerful 7.6 M earthquake struck off the western coast of the Chile. Natural hazards are not bound by time, location or festivities; an earthquake can happen at any time in any place, regardless of the significance of the day. As a result, in this earthquake prone region, raising awareness of the risk posed by natural h ...[Read More]