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Imaggeo on Mondays: Seeing the world through a pothole

June 8, 2015
Imaggeo on Mondays: Seeing the world through a pothole
The world seen through a pothole. Credit: Mira Tammelin (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu )

A beautiful image of a forest reflected in a pool of water within a pothole in southern Finland is this Monday’s Imaggeo image and it brought to you by Mira Tammelin, a Finish researcher. The photo illustrates a pothole in the Askola pothole area in southern Finland. The pothole area is situated on the steep slopes next to river Porvoonjoki, approximately 70 kilometers to the northeast from ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Finger Rock

April 27, 2015
Finger
Finger Rock. Credit: Dmitry Demezhko (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Standing proud amongst the calm waters of Golovnina Bay is ‘The Devil’s Finger’, a sea stack composed of volcanic sediments. Located on the Pacific coast of Kunashir Island -which is controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan – the stack is testament to the volcanic nature of the region. The island itself is formed of four active volcanoes which are joined together by low-lying geothermally active ...[Read More]

The known unknowns – the outstanding 49 questions in Earth Sciences (Part IV)

October 17, 2014

We are coming to the end of the known unknowns series and so far we have explored issues which mainly affect the inner workings of our planet. Today we’ll take a look at the surface expression of the geological processes which shape the Earth. Topography significantly affects our daily life and is formed via an interplay between primarily tectonics and climate, but it also affected by biological, ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: A massive slump

September 1, 2014

One of the regions that has experienced most warming over the second half of the 20th century is the Potter Peninsula on King George Island in Antartica. It is here that Marc Oliva and his collaborators are studying what the effects of the warming conditions on the geomorphological processes prevailing in these environments. “Permafrost is present almost down to sea level in the South Shetland Isl ...[Read More]