GeoLog

#shareEGU20: planning your week of digital interaction!

Hazel Gibson April 1, 2020

Image credit: Daniela Rapavá (distributed via imaggeo)

Earlier this week, we announced that the new and revised schedule for #shareEGU20 has been released. If you missed that announcement you can take a look at the website for that here, it’s ok, we will wait… Now that you have had a quick look, maybe found your abstract, or session, you probably have a few questions. Over the next few weeks we will be trying to answer as many of these question ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Mondays: Psychedelic Foraminifera

Charlotte Beasley March 30, 2020

Psychedelic Foraminifera. Credit: Charlotte Beasley (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This is a transmitted light microscope image of a thin section – a 50-micron thick sliver of rock. This sample was collected from Jebel Hafit, a mountain which straddles the United Arab Emirates and Oman border. Jebel Hafit is approximately 900 m high and is made up of Eocene to Miocene age carbonate rocks which were mainly deposited in a shallow water, tropical setting. More specifically, this im ...[Read More]

Travels in Geology: A World Turned Upside Down

Terri Cook March 27, 2020

North Table Mountain in Golden, Colorado (Photo credit: Terri Cook).

Last weekend, with a strict, stay-at-home coronavirus order looming on the horizon, I decided to practice social distancing by escaping on one last hike. Since I’m currently in Colorado, I chose to climb North Table Mountain, the remnant of an ancient basalt lava flow located on the outskirts of Denver. Locally this mesa, along with its twin located a short distance to the south, are popula ...[Read More]

A message from EGU President Alberto Montanari on what geoscientists can do to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19

Alberto Montanari March 25, 2020

EGU President Alberto Montanari shares his thoughts on what we can learn from our experiences during the coronavirus outbreak.

What can the Earth, planetary and space sciences do to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19? While I am considering this challenging question, I am looking out of the window of my home in Italy, in Reggio Emilia. I am close to the epidemic center of the Italian outbreak of COVID-19. I have been at home for the last two weeks without going out, something which I have never experienced before. Sudde ...[Read More]