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Daniel Schillereff December 4, 2014

Sharing my new discovery – aquatic plants are (sometimes) suitable for radiocarbon dating!

Radiocarbon dating is probably the most well-known chronological technique regularly employed by archaeologists, geomorphologists and researchers analysing sediment cores. Palaeolimnologists (those who study lake sediments) hoping to determine the age of a sample extracted from a long sediment core traditionally seek terrestrial plant macrofossils (fragments of organic matter visible without a microscope), as these are …[Read More]

VolcanicDegassing

The fate of volcanic ash in the environment

David Pyle December 4, 2014

Over the past few years, we have been working to piece together the record of major post-glacial volcanic eruptions in southern Chile that have occurred over the past 18,000 years. This work started off with a search for volcanic ash layers that were preserved in road cuttings, or cliff faces other accessible geological locations in …[Read More]

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

PhD reflections: Sorcha

Charly Stamper December 3, 2014

Between a Rock and a Hard Place began as an Earth Science PhD blog in February 2013, as a place to ramble on about PhD life and general science topics. Almost two years later, some of the contributors have finished, others have submitted, and the rest are nearing the end. Over the next few weeks, …[Read More]

HazeBlog

Polluting the Internet

The dark side of the atmosphere: the blog awakens

Will Morgan December 3, 2014

Aerosol particles come in lots of different flavours and one of their most important properties is how they deal with incoming sunlight. Some are rather unwelcoming and send sunlight back to whence it came (space), which leads to a cooling of the atmosphere as the sunlight doesn’t reach the surface of the Earth. Others offer sunlight …[Read More]

GeoSphere

Shades of L’Aquila: Italian Geochemists avoid Huge Miscarriage of Justice

Matt Herod December 3, 2014

On rare occasions I hear about a story that must be told. This story is one of those and I feel that it deserves attention from the broader geoscience community. We have all heard of the L’Aquila verdict against the Italian seismologists concerning the devastating earthquake in 2009. If you haven’t, read these articles by Chris Rowan. At the time …[Read More]

PalaeoBlog

Green Tea and Velociraptors

One small step for Nature..

Jon Tennant December 3, 2014

Macmillan have released an interesting press release, announcing that all research papers published in their 49 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) journals, including Nature, will be made free to read online, via one of Digital Science’s pet projects, ReadCube (note that Digital Science is also owned by Macmillan). These articles can be annotated in ReadCube, but not …[Read More]

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Four Degrees

Looking to the past to see into the future

Marion Ferrat December 3, 2014

The Earth’s surface temperatures can have a profound effect on the Earth’s ice sheets, the huge layers of ice thousands of metres thick that cover Greenland and Antarctica. Over the past few decades, satellites have monitored the changes of these icy landscapes, revealing that parts of Greenland and West Antarctica are melting. This is important …[Read More]

GeoLog

Launching the new EGU Blogs!

Laura Roberts-Artal December 3, 2014

Welcome to the new home of the EGU Blogs! Today we are proudly launching a new webpage which now houses all the EGU blogs in one place. We have redesigned the website to give the blogs a more modern layout and have implemented a fully responsive page design. This means the new blogs website adapts …[Read More]

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Geomorphology

Welcome to the new Geomorphology Blog

Sabine Kraushaar December 3, 2014

…we’re happy you made it to our first post! We felt that the growing Geomorphology community is lacking a unifying platform where posts and documents related to upcoming events, workshops, conferences and other newsworthy information reach many scientists at a time. Thus, with the help of Andreas Lang and Lucy Clarke, we launched this Geomorphology blog …[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo on Mondays: Stone Flower

Laura Roberts-Artal December 1, 2014

In a true feat of endurance, self-discovery and resilience, Solmaz Mohadjer and Josy Strunden, geology students at the University of Tübingen (Germany), cycled 800 km in the Pamir Mountains as part of a trip to raise awareness about autism in Tajikistan. ““We cycled through one of the most tectonically active regions on the planet, passing …[Read More]