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GeoLog

Imaggeo on Mondays: A voyage through scales – The Badlands National Park, South Dakota.

June 22, 2015
Imaggeo on Mondays: A voyage through scales – The Badlands National Park, South Dakota.

Layer upon layer of sand, clay and silt, cemented together over time to form the sedimentary units of the Badlands National Park in South Dakota, USA. The sediments, delivered by rivers and streams that criss-crossed the landscape, accumulated over a period of millions of years, ranging from the late Cretaceous Period (67 to 75 million years ago) throughout to the Oligocene Epoch (26 to 34 million ...[Read More]

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Energy, Resources and the Environment

The mysterious subsidence of the seafloor due to oil production – How to predict it with a simple model?

June 22, 2015

by Daniel Keszthelyi Physics of Geological Processes group at the Department of Physics, University of Oslo Over 40 years of oil production from the Ekofisk field caused the overlying seafloor to sink over 9 meters during the years and while there have been numerous researches on the topic; the clear understanding of what happens with the reservoir rocks during production is still missing. We crea ...[Read More]

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Energy, Resources and the Environment

Words on Wednesday: The ocean carbon sink – impacts, vulnerabilities and challenges

June 17, 2015

Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Heinze, C., Meyer, S., Goris, N., Anderson, L., Steinfeldt, R., Chang, N., Le Quéré, C., and Bakker, D. C. E., 2015. The ocean carbon sink – ...[Read More]

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Geomorphology

Interview with Peter van der Beek

June 16, 2015
Interview with Peter van der Beek

Peter van der Beek, Professor at the University of Grenoble, France, has recently been elected the new president of the EGU GM division. In order to introduce himself to the community, Peter has kindly agreed to answer a couple of questions regarding his ideas for the future of the GM section: 1) Dear Peter, congratulations to the Division Presidency! Would you please tell us a bit about yourself ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo on Mondays: Just Passing

June 15, 2015
Imaggeo on Mondays: Just Passing

If lucky enough to visit Ilulissat Icefjord, you’d find yourself in a truly ancient landscape. From the up to 3.9 billion year old Precambrian rocks, to ice dating back to the Quaternary Ice Age (2.6 thousand years old) and archaeological remains which evidence the past settlement of this remote Greenlandic outpost, it’s no surprise this stunning location has been declared a UNESCO world heritage ...[Read More]

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Energy, Resources and the Environment

The Pore Space Scramble

June 15, 2015

by Alexandra Gormallya and Michelle Benthamb aLancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK; bBritish Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK The underground is being used more to help us meet some of the challenges facing humans from tackling climate change, waste disposal to ensuring energy security. The notion of ‘pore space’ and its commodification, h ...[Read More]

Geology Jenga

A new initiative for Communicating Geomorphology

June 12, 2015

It has been too long since my last post as the full impact of Post-doc life took hold: it’s been fascinating, fulfilling and fatiguing in equal measure. One recent development I’m delighted to compose a post about is a new initiative I’m helping to launch. It’s a Working Group aimed at evaluating how we, the geomorphology community, have communicated our science in the past ...[Read More]

GeoLog

The day the Earth trembled: A first-hand account of the 25 April Nepal earthquake

June 12, 2015
The day the Earth trembled: A first-hand account of the 25 April Nepal earthquake

On the 25th April 2015, Viktor Bruckman, a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and a team of his colleagues were a few hours into a hike between the settlements of Lamabagar, in a remote area of northeastern Nepal, and the Lapchi Monastery when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal. Their journey cut short by the trembling Earth, stranded in the heights of the Himalayas, this is thei ...[Read More]

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Energy, Resources and the Environment

Words on Wednesday: Do Himalayan treelines respond to recent climate change? An evaluation of sensitivity indicators

June 10, 2015

Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Schickhoff, U., Bobrowski, M., Böhner, J., Bürzle, B., Chaudhary, R. P., Gerlitz, L., Heyken, H., Lange, J., Müller, M., Scholten, T., Schwa ...[Read More]

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Geomorphology

Summer School on Geomorphology (September 2015)

June 9, 2015
Summer School on Geomorphology (September 2015)

“Sediment Dynamics in high-mountain Environments” We’re happy to announce that our proposed Summer School on Geomorphology (SSOG) “Sediment dynamics in high-mountain environments” has been evaluated positively and will be funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung. The summer school will take place in the Kaunertal Valley, Austrian Alps, where we will combine a hands-on field learning app ...[Read More]