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Dr. Rocío Paola Caballero-Gill (she/her/ella)
about 16 hours ago
Hola GSA Connects 2025 👋🏽 Join us Monday & Tuesday room 225A 👇🏽to chat & get to know each other, find ways to support our latines in earth science. Ps: many other affinity groups are meeting in that area too, like Black in geoscience, AAPIIG, @ more!
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@geosociety.bsky.social
add a skeleton here at some point
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M5.5 earthquake, Afghanistan, at 12.15 UTC on 17 October 2025. Detected in Nottingham using horizontal pendulum school seismometer
#earthquake
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Douglas Merson
3 days ago
Lanthanite-(Ce) Ce₂(CO₃)₃·8H₂O Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada FOV = 0.96 mm #4007 NFS
#minerals
#earthscience
#geology
#mineralogy
# Mount Saint-Hilaire
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M6.5 earthquake, Indonesia, at 05.48 UTC on 16 October 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horiztontal pendulum school seismometers
#earthquake
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Douglas Merson
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Horváthite-(Y) NaY(CO₃)F₂ Poudrette quarry (De-Mix quarry; Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Carrière Mont Saint-Hilaire; MSH), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada FOV = 2.62 mm #4003 NFS
#minerals
#earthscience
#geology
#mineralogy
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Taissa Rodrigues
6 days ago
Hi Bluesky, I need your help. Please share broadly: We have an EXCELLENT job opening. We are looking for a non-Brazilian visiting scholar who specializes in Genomics applied to animal evolution, biogeography, and/or biodiversity. This is a one-year contract that can be extended for up to 4 years.
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Edital nº 161/2025-Progep - Professor Visitante Estrangeiro | Progep
https://progep.ufes.br/conteudo/edital-no-1612025-progep-professor-visitante-estrangeiro
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Nadine, Haunter of Rocks 👻
5 days ago
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🧪⚒️ Afghanite: - A feldspathoid mineral - Forms in altered limestone xenoliths or in veins cutting lazurite - Named after Afghanistan, where it was first discovered in 1968
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Nadine, Haunter of Rocks 👻
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🧪⚒️ Borax: - A borate mineral - Forms in evaporite deposits - Turns opaque when it dehydrates - Has many industrial uses, e.g. cleaning products, pH buffer, gold extraction - Its name comes from the Arabic word "بورق/bauraq" (white)
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Dr. Judith Hubbard
8 days ago
October 10th was marked by two M7+ earthquakes on the same day - 14,000 km apart! How unusual is that? We crunch some numbers. Also: what’s going on in the Drake Passage? 2025 has seen three mid-M7 earthquakes there, after decades of relative seismic silence. What can the limited data tell us? ⚒️ 🧪
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Another mid-M7 earthquake in the Drake Passage
The third large earthquake to strike between South America and Antarctica this year
https://earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/another-mid-m7-earthquake-in-the
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M5.6 earthquake, near Kamchatka, at 01.10 UTC on 13 October 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and @LEGO_Group school seismometers
#earthquake
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#geology
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earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
7 days ago
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Sapinuwa
8 days ago
Geology people
@geohenning.bsky.social
@pavementgeology.bsky.social
! What is in this rock? Some kind of a calcite? I came across it in the foundations of Pessinus temple in Eskişehir in Turkey today...
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Jascha Polet
9 days ago
Catching up on a few earthquakes this evening. The M7.6 Drake passage earthquake yesterday appears to have been an intraplate strike slip faulting
#earthquake
, unlike the M7.4 earthquake a few months ago in the greater area, which was subduction related. ⚒️🧪
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Marcus Brandel
10 days ago
🦥
#FossilFriday
P68.40.1 - the rarest Minnesota fossil I’ve ever held in my hand: an ungual phalanx of
#Megalonyxjeffersoni
(Giant
#GroundSloth
). Discovered in a pile of excavated peat, this individual toe claw remains the singular specimen of this animal found in the state.
#Pleistocene
#Fossil
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M7.6 earthquake, Drake Passage, at 20.29 UTC on 10 October 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using (top to bottom) slinky, horizontal pendulum and @LEGO_Group school seismometers
#earthquake
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M6.7 earthquake, Philippines, at 11.12 UTC on 10 October 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using horizontal pendulum school seismometer
#earthquake
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#geology
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Nadine, Haunter of Rocks 👻
10 days ago
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#365Minerals
🧪⚒️ Aluminite: - A hydrous sulphate mineral - Only 1-2 on the Mohs hardness scale (softer than fingernails) - Forms via the reaction of sulphate solutions in clay or lignite - Named for its aluminium content
#minerals
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M7.4 earthquake, Philippines, at 01.43 UTC on 10 October 2025. Detected in Nottingham using (top to bottom) slinky, horizontal pendulum, and @LEGO_Group school seismometers
#earthquake
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#geology
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earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
10 days ago
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Small
#earthquake
in the East Midlands? Or the neighbours dropped a grand piano?
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M6.6 earthquake, Papua New Guinea, at 11.05 UTC on 7 October 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and @LEGO_Group school seismometers
#earthquake
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earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
13 days ago
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It's that time of year again
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M5.2 earthquake, Jan Mayen, 09.08 UTC on 5 October 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer
#earthquake
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15 days ago
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Cork Geological Association
15 days ago
Geology, nature, sunshine, wonderful scenery, good company, and generosity of Bantry Golf Club and local farmer Annette, made for a v. enjoyable and informative day.
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Tom Sharpe
16 days ago
200 years ago today, 4 October 1825: visiting Lyme Regis, geologist Roderick Murchison notes in his journal: 'Accompanied by Mary Anning rode to Dowlands and dismounted there' where they examined the Greensand rocks of the Undercliff, the landslipped coastal cliffs west of the town.
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New rock identification activity from the Earth Learning Idea team for geology students aged 14 years and above.
www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/462_Forg...
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Mineral Cup #MinCup25
18 days ago
We have a
#MinCup25
champion!! Congratulations,
#Kyanite
!
www.mineralcup.org/2025
After eight years of competing, another few hours to verify votes was nothing, right? Amazing first run,
#Tugtupite
, and better luck next year.
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2025 — Mineral Cup
https://www.mineralcup.org/2025
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
25 days ago
From the Press Room | For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up as mostly pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils has been a mystery—until now:
go.nhm.org/megafilters
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Alberta Palaeontological Society
24 days ago
Growth series of Pachyrhinosaurus humerus bones! The Pipestone Creek bonebed near Grande Prairie preserves thousands of these horned dinosaurs, letting us study a whole population across ages. This is from the Philip J. Currie Museum!
#fossilfriday
#palaeontology
#paleontology
#fossils
#alberta
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Cam Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time ⏰ ⚒️)
24 days ago
Welcome back to
#FossilFriday
! Did someone order seafood on the menu? Here are the shells of the oyster Exogyra cancellata. These come from the Late Cretaceous (Late Campanian) Demopolis Formation in Tueplo, Mississippi. These oysters are so common that you fill your backseat with them.
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History of Geology
about 1 month ago
September 18, 1972, Kenneth Jinghwa Hsu, Maria Bianca Cita & William B. F. Ryan publish the results of the 1970 Glomar Challenger expedition and drilling operations, suggesting the Mediterranean Sea dried out during the Messinian age (7.2 - 5.3 million years ago).
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Two M5.9 earthquakes near Kamchatka peninsula at 14.55 and 15.45 UTC on 19 September 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer
#earthquake
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earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
&
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
about 1 month ago
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EDIG
about 1 month ago
📣 📣 We are back! 📣 📣 After more than 2 years away from social media, we are excited to reconnect and engage with the community. Life changes, new jobs, and moves around the world have kept us quiet - but behind the scenes, we have been planning and building. Now we are ready to relaunch EDIG! 1/6
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M7.8 earthquake, Kamchatka, at 18.58 UTC on 18 September 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horizontal pendulum school seismometers
#earthquake
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about 1 month ago
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Tsunami Alerts (NTWC) from US National Tsunami Warning Center
about 1 month ago
#Tsunami
#Earthquake
A tsunami Advisory is now in effect which includes the coastal areas of Alaska from Amchitka Pass, Alaska (125 miles W of Ad- Coastal areas between and including Amchitka Pass, Alaska (125 miles W of Adak) to Attu, Alaska area
M7.8 earthquake
255 miles
11:58PDT Sep 18 Depth 10km Actions...
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LastQuake
about 1 month ago
#Earthquake (#землетрясение) possibly felt 2 min 11 sec ago in #RussianFederation. Felt it? Tell us via: 📱
https://m.emsc.eu/#app
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https://m.emsc.eu
🖥
https://www.emsc-csem.org
#Earthquake
⚠ Automatic crowdsourced detection, not seismically verified yet. More info soon!
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GFZ Earthquake Alerts (GEOFON)
about 1 month ago
Magnitude : 7.8 Region: *Near East Coast of Kamchatka* Time: 2025-09-18 18:58:18 UTC Epicenter : 160.39°E 53.23°N Depth: 40 km *First posted at: 19:07 UTC*
https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025simi/general
##GEOFON
##GFZ
##earthquake
##magnitude
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British Geological Survey
about 1 month ago
BGS has developed a new free national-scale BGS Predictive Seabed Sediments (UK) dataset based on around 40K sample measurements. The maps are aimed at supporting offshore activities including shipping, mineral assessments, & offshore infrastructure siting. More:
www.bgs.ac.uk/news/new-sea...
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EarthScope Consortium
about 1 month ago
Recent Earthquake Teachable Moment for the magnitude 7.4 earthquake near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia Teachable Moment presentations capture the opportunity to bring knowledge, insight, and critical thinking to the classroom following a newsworthy earthquake. ➡️
https://loom.ly/6Dv85wg
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Mongabay
about 1 month ago
At least 60 wild iguanas have been captured, sold and exported from the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador under permits that shouldn’t have been recognized since Ecuador doesn’t allow the export of live iguanas, Mongabay’s Ana Cristina Alvarado reported.
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How to smuggle a wild Galápagos iguana? Pretend it was bred in Africa
At least 60 wild iguanas have been captured, sold and exported from the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador under permits that shouldn’t have been recognized since Ecuador doesn’t allow the export of live…
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/how-to-smuggle-a-wild-galapagos-iguana-pretend-it-was-bred-in-africa/
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M5.4 earthquake, Colombia, at 07.12 UTC on 14 September 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer
#earthquake
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#geology
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about 1 month ago
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Nadine, Haunter of Rocks 👻
about 2 months ago
#MinCup25
fans: A
#minerals
themed Lego set is coming out in October! Featuring pyrite, tourmaline, amethyst, rhodochrosite, fluorite and tangerine quartz. It's based on a Lego Ideas design which was submitted back in 2023! ⚒️🧪
#geology
www.lego.com/en-gb/catego...
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Build a Striking Geological Display with LEGO® Ideas Mineral Collection
Immerse yourself in the world of geology with this colorful LEGO® Ideas Mineral Collection, which also makes a striking addition to your home décor!
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/categories/adults-welcome/article/lego-ideas-mineral-collection
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M7.4 earthquake, Kamchatka, at 02.37 UTC on 13 September 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horizontal pendulum school seismometers
#earthquake
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about 1 month ago
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Second Geeses
about 1 month ago
Posting Round 1 Match 13 early because I need to spend time away from social media, but these are REALLY good ones! So much
#Topaz
! There is so much topaz and I'm a sucker for gems.
#MinCup25
#MinCup25SideQuest
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M5.0 earthquake, Greece, at 21.27 UTC on 8 September 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer
#earthquake
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about 1 month ago
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M5.6 earthquake, Afghanistan, at 16.56 UTC on 4 September 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer
#earthquake
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about 2 months ago
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Jascha Polet
about 2 months ago
The M6.0
#earthquake
on August 31st in Afghanistan was one of the deadliest events of the past decade, again emphasizing that relatively small earthquakes even in regions that have experienced much larger events (in this case M7.5+, but deeper) can have devastating effects. ⚒️🧪
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The Associated Press
about 2 months ago
BREAKING: Deaths from a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in eastern Afghanistan rise to at least 610, and more than 1,300 people injured, a spokesman for the Taliban says.
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A strong earthquake in eastern Afghanistan kills at least 250 people
A strong earthquake in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border has killed at least 250 people and injured at least 500 others.
https://bit.ly/47nM7Fo
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M6.0 earthquake, Afghanistan, at 19.17 UTC on 31 August 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horizontal pendulum school seismometers
#earthquake
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earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
about 2 months ago
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M6.0 earthquake, Severo-Kuril'sk, at 03.49 UTC on 27 August 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer
#earthquake
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about 2 months ago
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Nadine, Haunter of Rocks 👻
about 2 months ago
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🧪⚒️ Celestine: - A sulphate mineral - A source of strontium, which is used in fireworks - Often associated with gypsum, anhydrite and halite - Its name comes from the Latin word "caelestis" (celestial) because it sometimes has a sky blue colour
#minerals
#MineralMonday
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