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Home / Education / Geolocations / Folded Rocks
Yes Do you need permissions to access the location? No Description From Imaggeo.egu.eu: Rock folds on the south coast of Kerrera, Scotland. Although a small island Kerrera (pronounced Kera) has lots of interesting geology. Based on some Dalradian rocks, metamorphosed around 540 million years ago is Old Red Sandstone (deposits of river sediments) and on top of that is volcanic sediments from ash - from a nearby lava sequence on the mainland.
Home / Education / Educational resources / Dynamic Ecology
Associated division Biogeosciences (BG) Age groups 16-18 18+ Type of activity Classroom Source http://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/videos-for-teaching-ecology/ Description A selection of videos for teaching ecology. Take a look at this site for a teacher's selection of some of the best videos for teaching and lecturing about ecology. Go back
Home / Media Library / Transient sensitivity of sea level rise
The warmer it gets, the faster the sea level rises. The sensitivity models of the future appear to be inconsistent with historical data. Credit: Aslak Grinsted, CC BY Related EGU articles Sea level will rise faster than previously thought (2 February 2021) Download Original image (79.4 KB, 880.0x620.0 px) Go back
Home / Media Library / Kaiyu Guan (left) and Chongya Jiang at the University of Illinois
Credit: CABBI/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Related EGU articles New satellite-based algorithm pinpoints crop water use (20 March 2020) Download Original image (2.1 MB, 5283.0x3781.0 px) Preview image (55.4 KB, 1280x916 px, JPEG format) Go back
Home / Education / Geolocations / Falls of Kirkaig
Yes Do you need permissions to access the location? No Who can grant permission Public - Geopark Description Waterfall cut through Lewisian Gneiss, part of the North West Highlands Geopark, more details: http://www.northwest-highlands-geopark.org.uk/coigach/ Geographic location -5.2640 W, 58.1237 N Go back
Home / Awards & medals / Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Awards / 2022 / Yuchen He
Amin Chabchoub and Associate Prof. Ana Vila Concejo. Yuchen is fully funded by the University of Sydney International Scholarship. His PhD research focuses on experimental and numerical investigation of nonlinear extreme wave dynamics.
Home / Media Library / Timelapse video of growing hair ice
Timelapse video of growing hair ice (Credit: Erich Albisser/Gletschergarten Luzern (http://www.gletschergarten.ch/)) Related EGU articles Fungus shapes hair ice – Researchers identify fungus responsible for peculiar ice filaments that grow on dead wood (22 July 2015) Download Original video (2.5 MB, 35 s, AVI format format) Preview image (13.8 KB, 480x360 px, JPEG format) Go back
Home / Education / Educational resources / Make-a-Map
Associated divisions Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV) Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (SSP) Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS) Age groups 5-11 11-15 16-18 18+ Type of activities Classroom Home Practical Work Source http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/makeamap/home.html?src=topNav Description Customise this map of Britain to show the types of rocks that are of most interest to you! Go back
Home / Education / Geolocations / Nea Kameni colors and Imerovigli of Santorini
No Do you need permissions to access the location? No Description From Imaggeo.egu.eu: The small active volcano island of Nea Kameni, close to Santorini (Greece). http://imaggeo.egu.eu/view/1318/ Geographic location 25.4019 E, 36.3997 N Go back
Home / Awards & medals / Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Awards / 2008 / Jakob Heyman
Jakob is a PhD student at the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University. His PhD project is focused on the paleoglaciology of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, involving remote sensing, field studies and numerical dating techniques.
