mountain glaciers

Imaggeo On Monday: the EGU Photo Competition – capture a moment in time.

Hazel Gibson April 4, 2022

The late Holocene fever. Credit: Christian Massari (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 Mondays: A dramatic avalanche from Annapurna South

Laura Roberts-Artal August 7, 2017

A dramatic avalanche from Annapurna South . Credit: Emily Hill (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The Annapurna massif is located in an imposing 55 km long collection of peaks in the Himalayas, which behave as a single structural block. Composed of one peak (Annapurna I Main) in excess of 8000 m, a further thirteen peaks over 7000 m and sixteen more of over 6000 m, the massif forms a striking structure within the Himalayas. Annapurna South (pictured in today’s featured image), the 101st talles ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Tongue of a small giant

Antonello Provenzale July 10, 2017

Tongue of a small giant . Credit: Antonello Provenzale (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu).

In a world where climate change causes many mountain glaciers to shrink away, bucking the ‘melting’ trend is not easy. In today’s post, Antonello Provenzale, a researcher in Italy, tells us of one glacier in the Alps which is doing just that. Mountain glaciers are retreating worldwide, with the possible exception of the Karakoram area. For most glaciers, ablation (ice melt) durin ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: The retreating glaciers of the Svaneti Range, Georgia

Laura Roberts-Artal January 18, 2016

Glaciers of Svanetu Range . Credit: Levan Tielidze (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Today’s Imaggeo on Mondays picture shows the central section of the Svaneti Range, located in the Svaneti Region – a historic province of northwestern Georgia. The range is the second biggest range formed by the modern glaciation on the southern slopes of the Georgian Caucasus Mountains. In today’s post, Levan Tielidze, a researcher at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, writes about the ...[Read More]