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IAG Photo Contest – winner October-December 2025

The winner of the IAG Photo Contest in October-December 2025 is Alena Gessert (Slovakia)! Find below her photo and descriptive text.

If you want to participate in the context, find the rules, guidelines and details on the procedure here.

Sandstone pillars – iconic landforms of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains
by Alena Gessert (Slovakia)

The Hercules Pillars (Herkulessäulen) are striking sandstone rock towers located in the Saxon Switzerland National Park, eastern Germany, within the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. This region is built predominantly of Upper Cretaceous sandstones that are strongly jointed and horizontally bedded. Long-term denudation, selective weathering, and erosion along fracture systems have led to the separation of narrow rock pillars from the original sandstone plateau. Frost weathering, rainfall infiltration, and gravitational processes play a key role in shaping these landforms. More resistant sandstone layers form widened upper parts, while less resistant strata are preferentially removed, locally producing rock-mushroom morphologies. The Hercules Pillars represent an advanced stage of sandstone landscape dissection and are characteristic features of sandstone “rock cities,” illustrating the effectiveness of differential erosion in temperate climatic conditions.

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Publication of “River Health Assessment”

The IAG is glad to promote the publication of “River Health Assessment – A Study on Mahananda River, India“, written by Suman Mitra, Lakpa Tamang and Sunil Kumar De, and published by Springer in the Springer Geography series.

The book provides river health assessment techniques, identifies factors affecting river health, and provides measures for river health sustenance. These aspects are detailed through the study of the Mahananda River (India), an important river system which is currently rapidly altered by human activities.

Find details and purchase options here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-76580-3

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Publication of “Landscapes and Landforms of Costa Rica”

The most recent addition to the IAG-endorsed series is the “Landscapes and Landforms of Costa Rica” book, edited by Adolfo Quesada-Román. It comprises twenty-one chapters, including both country-wide overviews and more site-specific studies. Inevitably, volcanic geomorphology, mass movements and fluvial dynamics are prominently represented, but there are also chapters focused on karst and caves, glacial and periglacial landscapes, coastlines, soils, and human impact in geomorphology. The book is 455 pages long, and so contains a wealth of information.

Find details and purchase options here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-64940-0

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IAG Photo Contest – winner May 2024

The winner of the IAG Photo Contest in May 2024 is Furkan Karabacak (Türkiye)! Find below his photo and descriptive text.

If you want to participate in the contest, find the rules, guidelines and details on the procedure here.

Badlands – a fascinating landscape formed by multi-processes

by Furkan Karabacak, Türkiye

The Nallihan badlands area is a landscape that makes you feel like you are on another planet. It is located in an extremely arid area in the interior of the Anatolian Orogenic Plateau, Türkiye. The badlands is composed of a Paleocene-aged conglomerate, marl, clay and sandstone terrestrial series, and its morphology is characterised by steep slopes, a thin regolith layer, and high drainage density. With its fascinating forms caused by differential erosion and colors reflecting various paleo-environmental conditions, this area is also a favorite spot for geomorphology enthusiasts.

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Special Issues resulting from the 10th International Conference on Geomorphology

The 10th International Conference on Geomorphology (Coimbra, Portugal), that was held in September 2022, has resulted in the preparation of 10 Special Issues coming from various scientific Sessions:

  • Session 5: Forms, Processes and Landscape Change:
    Title: Denudation under changing environment at different temporal and spatial scales
    Journal: Geomorphology
    Editors: Juan Remondo, Achim A. Beylich, Dongfeng Li, Sara Savi
    Link
  • Session 8: Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology
    Title: Recent trends in glacial and periglacial geomorphology
    Journal: Geomorphology
    Editors: Barbara Woronko, Goncalo Vieira, Greg Wiles, Jorge Rabassa
    Link
  • Session 9: Tectonic and Seismic Geomorphology
    Title: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference on Geomorphology (ICG2022)
    Journal: Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie
    Editors: Efthimios Karymbalis, Paola Fredi, Giandomenico Fubelli, Konstantinos Tsanakas
    Link
  • Session 9: Tectonic and Seismic Geomorphology
    Title: Tectonic Geomorphology in Different Geodynamic Contexts
    Journal: Geomorphology
    Editors: Efthimios Karymbalis, Marta Della Seta, Giandomenico Fubelli, Maria Araújo, António Gomes
    Link
  • Session 10: Fluvial Geomorphology
    Title: Fluvial geomorphology: sediment transport, river management, and extreme events at different spatial and temporal scales
    Journal: Geomorphology
    Editors: Frédéric Liébault, Vittoria Scorpio, Daniel Vazquez-Tarrio
    Link
  • Session 11: Aeolian Geomorphology
    Title: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference on Geomorphology (ICG2022)
    Journal: Geosciences
    Editors: Ana Ramos-Pereira, Vanda de Claudino-Sales, António Campar, Abdessamad Charif, Jorge Trindade
    Link
  • Session 12: Marine and Coastal Geomorphology
    Title: Advances in Coastal Geomorphology
    Journal: Geomorphology
    Editors: Carlos Loureiro, Angela Rizzo, Stefano Furlani
    Link
  • Session 14: Karst Geomorphology
    Title: Surface-Subsurface Connectivity in Karst Geomorphology
    Journal: Geomorphology
    Editors: Mateja Ferk, Alexander Klimchouk, Luca Antonio Dimuccio, Luiz Eduardo Panisset Travassos
    Link
  • Session 19: Geomorphological Hazards and Risk Management
    Title: Geomorphological Hazards and Risk Management
    Journal: Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie
    Editors: Susana Pereira, Maria Carolina Villaça, Ana Luiza Coelho Netto
    Link
  • Session 25: Planetary Geomorphology
    Title: Planetary landscapes, landforms, and their analogues
    Journal: Earth Surface Dynamics
    Editors: Frances Butcher, Susan Conway
    Link
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Call for papers – Badlands Working Group Special Issue in the Mediterranean Geosciences Reviews

The Badlands Working Group from the IAG organises a Special Issue in the Mediterranean Geosciences Reviews, entitled “The Origin, Dynamics, and Diversity of Badlands in the Mediterranean and other terrestrial environments“. This Special Issue aims at being interdisciplinary, including the  origin of badlands landscapes, erosion dynamics and rate, effects of climate, or badlands landscape evolution modelling – among others. Find the flyer in .pdf here.

You can submit your paper before 12 June 2023, using Springer Nature MEGR’s online submission platform. Find the guideline for authors here, and more information about the journal here. Note that the publication is planned for March 2024.

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Publication of Karst Hydrogeology, Geomorphology and Caves

The IAG congratulates Profs. Jo De Waele (University of Bologna, Italy) and Francisco Gutiérrez (University of Zaragoza, Spain) for the recent publication of “Karst Hydrogeology, Geomorphology and Caves” with Wiley! This book provides a comprehensive review of many aspects of karst science. Purchase this book with a 20% discount until December 31st – details on the flyer here.

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Landscapes and Landforms of Portugal

Hot on the heels of Landscapes and Landforms of England and Wales we are pleased to announce that Landscapes and Landforms of Portugal edited jointly by Gonçalo Vieira,José Luís Zêzere and Carla Mora is now available via: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-03641-0. This will be a great introduction to those of you planning to attend the IAG’s 10th International Conference on Geomorphology in Coimbra Portugal next year (6-10 September 2021)!

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Landscapes and Landforms of England and Wales

The latest addition to the IAG-endorsed series “World Geomorphological Landscapes” is now out! “Landscapes and Landforms of England and Wales”, edited jointly by Andrew Goudie and Piotr Migoń, is available via https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030389567 It is more than 600 pages long and contains overviews of long-term landform evolution, rock-relief relationships, Quaternary and the human impact, followed by 27 regional studies covering characteristic geomorphological landscapes, from coasts and flatlands to formerly glaciated mountains. The volume is dedicated to the first President of the IAG, Professor Denys Brunsden, with a special foreword from Mauro Soldati, the current IAG President. This volume is no. 19 in the successful series launched at the occasion of the International Conference on Geomorphology in Paris in 2013.

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Aaron Micallef, Sebastian Krastel, Alessandra Savini (Eds.): SUBMARINE GEOMORPHOLOGY

The final version of the edited book Submarine Geomorphology, is now available online and in print from Springer.

 

The Editors Aaron Micallef, Sebastian Krastel and Alessandra Savini would like to thank all the authors who have contributed to this book.

 

The book will be officially launched at the 9th International Conference on Geomorphology, taking place in New Delhi in November.

This book on the current state of knowledge of submarine geomorphology aims to achieve the goals of the Submarine Geomorphology working group, set up in 2013, by establishing submarine geomorphology as a field of research, disseminating its concepts and techniques among earth scientists and professionals, and encouraging students to develop their skills and knowledge in this field.
Editors have invited 30 experts from around the world to contribute chapters to this book, which is divided into 4 sections – (i) Introduction & history, (ii) Data & methods, (ii) Submarine landforms & processes and (iv) Conclusions & future directions. Each chapter provides a review of a topic, establishes the state-of-the-art, identifies the key research questions that need to be addressed, and delineates a strategy on how to achieve this.
Submarine geomorphology is a priority for many research institutions, government authorities and industries globally. The book is useful for undergraduate and graduate students, and professionals with limited training in this field.

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