GeoLog

Imaggeo On Monday: Both Ends of the Rainbow

Adam Ciesielski July 5, 2021

Both ends of the rainbow. Credit: Adam Ciesielski (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

A double rainbow was captured when heading through the glaciated Benasque valley, located in the heart of the Pyrenees. The photo was taken just before the sunset, after heavy rainfall. A rainbow is caused by reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets. Second rainbow arc results from one reflection more than in the first one, thus the rainbow colours are “reverted”. The geome ...[Read More]

Crowd solutions to challenges in Earth Sciences

EGU Guest blogger July 2, 2021

Research rarely follows a straight path and it is normal for challenges to arise during a scientific career. These challenges may come from scientific issues, like inaccessible field sites or data or unavailable/insufficient methods, or from social or personal problems and so on. This year we are facing an additional problem in our inability to meet in person, travel and go to the field. As we all ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during June!

Hazel Gibson June 30, 2021

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we will be putting the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For June, the Divisions we are featuring are: Ocean Science (OS) and Biogeosciences (BG). They are served by the journals: Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), Ocean Sciences (OS), Biogeosciences (BG) and ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: A drift of sea-snail shells

Pontus Lurcock June 28, 2021

A drift of sea-snail shells. Credit: Pontus Lurcock (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

A collection of washed-up shells on a beach on the south island of New Zealand. Shore transport processes have produced a well-sorted drift of similarly sized (approx. 1-2 cm) shells and shell fragments. The main species represented are the common turret shell (Maoricolpus roseus) and wheel shell (Zethalia zelandica), both sea snails endemic to New Zealand. Description by Pontus Lurcock, af ...[Read More]