GeoLog

Imaggeo On Monday: Elegance with no functionality

Antonio Jordán September 4, 2023

Elegance with no functionality. Credit: Antonio Jordán (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The Montejaque dam, with its 84 meters of height, is one of the first vaulted dams built in Europe. Currently, it remains only as a vestige of one of the major hydroelectric projects by the “Sevillana de Electricidad” company. Preliminary studies for its construction began in 1917. Some of these studies indicated that the project was unfeasible due to the karstic nature of the terrain, ...[Read More]

Can anyone engage in geoscience outreach or does it take certain skills?

Gillian D'Souza September 1, 2023

Students from the secondary school of Nisyros guided in Stefanos crater by Evi Nomikou

On 20 October 2023, a team of geoscientists will host EGU’s Geoscience Day in Santorini and Nisyros (Greece) with a diverse audience: 60 young students from Nisyros Elementary School, 120 students from the Vocational High School of Santorini, educators, local journalists and representatives of the tourism industry. With such a mixed group of attendees, one might expect unique challenges that ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during August!

Hazel Gibson August 31, 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 August, the Divisions we are featuring are: Cryospheric Sciences (CR), Energy, Resources and the Environment (ERE) and Atmospheric Sciences (AS). They are served by the journals: Annales Geophysicae (ANGEO), Atmosp ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Layers of dust and snow

Stefan Winkler August 28, 2023

Layers of dust and snow. Credit: Stefan Winkler (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This image shows layers of dust and snow at the surface of Fox Glacier, Southern Alps, New Zealand. The glacier surface in the upper part of Fox Glacier’s ice fall is heavily crevassed and intersected into seracs. Individual layers of fresh and old snow are visible, some with visible thin dust layers at their surface. The more reddish dust layers in the lower part of the image had been gener ...[Read More]