#Sauropod dinosaur track at Loulle in the #Jura mountains in France. Note the desiccation cracks!

Petite sélection d'images de la Lune prise durant la mission Artemis II. © NASA/Artemis II

📢New paper out: "A classification framework for mapping lunar soils" We propose a structured system to classify lunar soils for ISRU and future Moon missions — tested on the Apollo 15 deep core. 👇 🔗 acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Pedology #Soil #ISRU #Regolith #Moon

Call for manuscripts - joint special Issue #Geoderma / #GeodermaRegional - "Tropical Soil Science: Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Biogeochemistry, Plant-Soil Interactions and Climate change Mitigation" Geoderma: tinyurl.com/bdf2989c Geoderma Regional: tinyurl.com/3yarxaan photos: Sebastian Doetterl

Now fully accessible on the website 😊 #Soil #pedology #regolith #Moon www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Le ministère de la transition écologique a mise en ligne un atlas des paysages du #Jura avec de jolies illustrations dans la partie Diagnostique dont une section géologique. Les thématiques sont très variés. atlas-paysages.jura.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/l-atlas-r2.h... (cc @subsolum.bsky.social)

Weekend field visit to the Tourbières de Prénovel (#Jura, France) – a textbook example of how substrate permeability governs landscape patterns. Impermeable layers retain water, forming peat bogs , while permeable zones drain quickly, favoring dry forested ridges.

Luxembourg #vertisol

With so much weighing on the scientific community right now, I find solace in the resilience of the natural world—like these beautiful biocrusts continually holding the desert together.

📣⚠️ New article on Planetary Pedology ! We examine existing soil taxonomies and 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗶𝗹 𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 to support moon #soil mapping. 🚀🌕 📖 read more 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #LunarGeology #Astropedology #Moon #ISRU #Regolith #Pedology #Mapping

📢 #Postdoc Opportunity! 🌱🔬 Join an #Ecotron project on soil #carbon sequestration @ecotron-cnrs.bsky.social 🔗 Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... 📍 Work with @alex-ecology.bsky.social & @cbiogeo.bsky.social 📢 Please share! #Soil #Biochar #Weathering #AcademicJobs #JobOffer #CarbonScience

Ice may be present a few centimetres below the Moon’s surface in more areas of the lunar polar regions than was previously thought due to large variations in surface temperatures, according to a study in Communications Earth & Environment. https://go.nature.com/4i89O6S 🔭 🧪

A study in Nature Communications attributes Mars’ distinctive red colour to ferrihydrite, a type of rust mineral. The finding suggests Mars experienced a cold and wet environment before transitioning to its current desert state. https://go.nature.com/4iiRKGV 🧪 🔭

When you watch Jurassic Park but have a background in structural geology😉

It's #DarwinDay. He was a father of #soilscience #pedology, by combining his knowledge of #geology and #biology, he published “The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms.” In this book you can see one of the first #soilhorizon designation A,B,C.

Hello at BlueSky! We are informing on work advancing our knowledge on soils in all regions of the world and formed in different pedo-climatic zones. Looking forward to interacting with a large soil science community! Explore our webpage for more insights. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/geod...

🌵✨ When we say biocrusts are "the coral reefs of the desert," we mean it—just look at these vibrant colors! 🟠🟡🔵🔴 They're also reef-like in their roles stabilizing soil, reducing erosion, retaining moisture, and fixing nitrogen 🌿

#MontBlanc visible from the #Jura about 180 km away

I am a little late for #worldsoilday but here is my all time favourite: Latossolo Vermelho perférrico (Hyperferritic Ferralsol?), developed from itabirite - a hematite-quartz metamorphic rock that gives name to my hometown. These soils have up to 95% of Fe oxides and oxyhydroxides!! (1/3)

For today's (somewhat late) #Fridayfold, I'm going smaller in scale. Here are some beautiful soft sediment deformation structures I spotted when exploring the Oamaru volcanic field #geology #earthscience #womeninSTEM

#Borobudur temple in Java #indonesia last year, the offsets between the stone blocks at the base of the temple could be linked to past #earthquakes ? Dear paleosismologists any thoughs or studies on that? @paleoseismicity.bsky.social #activetectonics #archeosismology ugm.ac.id/en/news/1635...

#Punchunvavi Chile 🇨🇱 suffered tsunamis. Visited during PataDays 2024, with Marco Cisternas

Happy world soil day! Let me show you these beautiful towers built by #earthworms #soilday

A picture from #soil aggregates, quite common on 🌍. However those aggregates are not from a terrestrial soil but from a #Moon 🌒soil of the #Apollo12 mission #PlanetaryPedology #AstroPedology

On recherche un/e étudiant/e de Master 2 pour un stage de recherche sur la paléosismologie du lac d'Antre... et plus si affinités!

Dinosaurs footprint on fossil beach with dessication craks in the #JuraMountains 🇫🇷 #Jura #Geology #Ichnology

Principal #soil units that compose the #cuesta landscape of the #Luxembourg sandstone.

#FossilFriday! 🧪⚒️ Here is a fossil soil (paleosol) from 17.5 million years ago in western Kenya. The paleosol contains abundant fossil rodents (red bone chips) and clay-lined root traces. This paleosol also showed some of the earliest evidence for savannas in the Cenozoic. tinyurl.com/36dbb93z

#Géologie L'anticlinal d'Autigny, un joli pli dégagé par le creusement de la cluse par la Dranse d'Abondance (le même nom que le fromage). On peut aisément distinguer sa géométrie de pli conique à ses 2 extrémités. Schéma annoté dans le second message ⬇️ 1/3

😍 those martian #Ventifacts #Windkanter

Happy to Share Our Latest Article with @teamrat.bsky.social and colleagues. Soil Science Informed Machine Learning. We outline how soil science knowledge can be incorporated in ML models. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#ThinsSectionThursday Fecal pellets or droppings of #Oribatid mites (Od) and #Collembola (Cd) observed in a zoOH horizon of a Moder Humus or #Humipedon in Luxembourg. #soilfauna #soil #humus #micromorphology #Thinsection

Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky www.science.org/content/arti...

in other words-> Whole #Regolith Classification: Andosol over Paralithic Regolite (Skeletic)[Andesitic] #Soil #Subsolum

Are you interested in communicating about soil biodiversity? If so, check out this recently published paper by Yamina Pressler for guidance on how to best communicate about soil biodiversity 🪱🐜🦠🐛 If not, check it out anyways 🤎 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One of my students said this root plate was from a basswood. It looked like it was growing in a stream, with almost no aerobic soil for a root zone.

I found this sketch on my hypothesis of the relationship between flow (discharge) and orientation of the #schistosity of the #Weierbach basin (Luxembourg), I find it quite good #CriticalZone #Hydrology The idea was reshaped and published here sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Recent publication from my lab group about community engaged urban soil science! Especially important to consider as the new Artesol soil order gains recognition. acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PZZKVZ...

Me too

the 12 types of #pedology papers 🤭

We all know Jenny's (1941) equation, however he was not the first. 🤫 Let’s pay tribute to Shaw who came up with his #soil formation formula in 1930 at the 2nd International Congress of Soil Science in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad).

Also useful in #SpaceAgriculture

A complex Brunic Umbrisol (Arenic, Aric, Raptic) according to WRB2022 developped in Luxembourg sandstone. Parent material shows high variability due to complex sedimentology, pure sand to sandy limestone. #sand #soil #pedology

The second day of the #pedology tour at #SSSA led us to a Vertisol formed in alluvial sediments. The carbonate masses at the base of the pit were composed of gorgeous well-formed crystals. Check the carbonate precipitated on top of laminae in picture 2 💕

Wet times at the pedology field tour Guadalupe River Delta stop. Highlights: subaqueous soils, slickensides, and mollic epipedons #pedology #SSSA

Megadiversidad de #suelos en el parque infantíl del Parque Nacional, #Bogotá #urbansoils #geodiversity

The Leighton-Marbut agreement during a field trip in 1923 established the separation between #pedology and #geology. Source: Tandarich et al (1994): The pedo-weathering profile: a paradigm for whole regolith pedology from the glaciated midcontinental United States of America.