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Imaggeo On Monday: 12 years of the EGU Photo Competition

Hazel Gibson March 14, 2022

Grand Prismatic Spring. Credit: David Mencin (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In 2010 EGU held our first annual Photo Competition at the General Assembly in Vienna. Since then hundreds of photos have been shared on imaggeo by geoscientists and researchers just like you, with a lucky few being selected each year to be highlighted during the meeting and voted on by our members. These images can be of anything to do with geology or geoscience – we get many beautif ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Effect of acid drainage on soil

Juan Antonio Campos March 7, 2022

Effect of acid drainage on soil. Credit: Juan Antonio Campos (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Acid drainage coming from the gangue piles of a metal sulfide mine. The resilient vegetation consists of isolated patches of Spergularia rubra and Molineriella laevis. Description by Juan Antonio Campos, after the description on imaggeo.egu.eu. Imaggeo is the EGU’s online open access geosciences image repository. All geoscientists (and others) can submit their photographs and videos to this ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: A steady silent witness

Francesco Bregoli February 28, 2022

A steady silent witness. Credit: Francesco Bregoli (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

I took this picture during a sunny field work day in the Mara Wetland, Tanzania. The granitic inselberg appeared to me as a huge silent witness not only of siltation and inundation of the wetland but also of the human actions. Slash-and-burn is widely used to deforest lands and riparian vegetation for new crops and grazing fields along the Mara River. The induced habitat degradation is jeopardizin ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Stands of Time

Trent Marwick February 21, 2022

Stands of Time. Credit: Trent Marwick (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Within the heart of the Malagasy Hauts-Plateaux, the rolling grasslands are pitted by deep incisions locally referred to as lavaka (‘hole’ in Malagasy). These mass failure features provide vast quantities of terrestrial matter to local freshwater arteries, accounting for over 80% of the annual sediment load of the Betsiboka River. The collapse of the overlying laterite exposes a comparatively nutr ...[Read More]