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Imaggeo on Mondays: Sunset and moonrise at Yosemite

Teamrat Ghezzehei June 24, 2019

Sunset and Moonrise at Yosemite Credit: Teamrat Ghezzehei (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This side view of Half Dome at Yosemite National Park (California, USA) was taken from Washburn Point, a less frequented overlook a few hundred meters away from the popular Glacier Point outlook. The sun just on the right side behind the camera, which gave the orange tint to the back side of Half Dome. At the same time a full moon was mere minutes from bursting in the background, which resulted in ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Corno Grande, tallest peak of the Apennines

Olivia Trani July 16, 2018

Corno Grande (Big Horn) - Gran Sasso, Italy. Credit: Alessandro Righetti (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In the middle of the Apennines lays the Gran Sasso d’Italia mountain chain, a picturesque collection of mountains situated in the heart of Italy. Featured here is one of the chain’s peaks, called the Corno Grande, meaning ‘Big Horn,’ coloured with a faint reddish light of a late-winter sunset. Sitting at 2,912 metres, this summit is easily the highest mountain in the Apennines. The areas sur ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Refuge in a cloudscape

Olivia Trani April 23, 2018

Refuge in a cloudscape. Credit: Julien Seguinot (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu )

The action of glaciers combined with the structure of the rock to form this little platform, probably once a small lake enclosed between a moraine at the mountain side and the ice in the valley. Now it has become a green haven in the mountain landscape, a perfect place for an alp. In the Alps, stratus clouds opening up on autumn mornings often create gorgeous light display. That day, some of the f ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Sneaking up from above

Jan Blöthe May 8, 2017

Sneaking up from above . Credit: Jan Blöthe (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Take some ice, mix in some rock, snow and maybe a little mud and the result is a rock glacier. Unlike ice glaciers (the ones we are most familiar with), rock glaciers have very little ice at the surface. Looking at today’s featured image, you’d be forgiven for thinking the Morenas Coloradas rock glacier wasn’t a glacier at all. But appearances can be misleading; as Jan Blöthe (a researcher at the ...[Read More]