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EGU Photo Competition 2022: Now open for submissions!

Chloe Hill February 2, 2022

2021 EGU Photo Competition Winner, The dunes of Khongoryn Els. Credit: Martin Mergili

If you are registered for the 2022 General Assembly EGU22 (23 – 27 May), you can take part in our annual photo competition. Winners receive free registration to next year’s General Assembly! It’s that time of year again! Yes, yesterday on the 1 February, the twelfth annual EGU photo competition opened for submissions!! Until 14 April, every participant registered for the General Assembly can ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Intriguing artwork by heat-loving microbes

Julia Miloczki January 31, 2022

Intriguing artwork by heat-loving microbes . Credit: Julia Miloczki (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The geothermal area Sol de Mañana is part of the Altiplano–Puna volcanic complex shared between Bolivia and Chile. The area is characterized by volcanic activity and the sulphur springs host mud lakes and steam pools. The different colours stem from thermophilic, hyperthermophilic and acidophilic bacteria that colonize areas of varying temperatures. Description by Julia Miloczki, after the ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Križna jama

Peter Huber January 24, 2022

Križna jama . Credit: Peter Huber (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The Križna jama Cave on the east side of the periodic Cerknica Lake in Slovenia is an underground karstic cave primarily famous as a rich site of bones of the extinct cave bear, Ursus speleus. The eight kilometer long cave is full of stalagmites and stalactites (sometimes called drip-stone decorations) and also boasts 50 underground lakes separated by sinter barriers through which crystal clear wa ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Quartz – sericite mylonite, Calamita, Elba

Samuele Papeschi January 17, 2022

Quartz - sericite mylonite, Calamita, Elba . Credit: Samuele Papeschi (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Concomitant thrusting and magmatism resulted in the development of ductile mylonites in the Calamita Schists, part of the contact aureole of the Late Miocene Porto Azzurro pluton. This mylonite is made up of stretched and recrystallized quartz layers, interlayered with thin sericite-rich levels. Sericite resulted from the crushing of contact-metamorphic minerals such as andalusite, cordierite, and ...[Read More]