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! @magomezco.bsky.social , @geosociety.bsky.social

M5.5 earthquake, Afghanistan, at 12.15 UTC on 17 October 2025. Detected in Nottingham using horizontal pendulum school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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

M6.5 earthquake, Indonesia, at 05.48 UTC on 16 October 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horiztontal pendulum school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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

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.

288 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Afghanite: - A feldspathoid mineral - Forms in altered limestone xenoliths or in veins cutting lazurite - Named after Afghanistan, where it was first discovered in 1968 #minerals

287 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ 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) #minerals

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? ⚒️ 🧪

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 ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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...

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. ⚒️🧪

🦥 #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

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 ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M6.7 earthquake, Philippines, at 11.12 UTC on 10 October 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using horizontal pendulum school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

283 of #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

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 ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Small #earthquake in the East Midlands? Or the neighbours dropped a grand piano?

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 ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

It's that time of year again

M5.2 earthquake, Jan Mayen, 09.08 UTC on 5 October 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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. @ucc.ie @geooutreach.bsky.social

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.

New rock identification activity from the Earth Learning Idea team for geology students aged 14 years and above. www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/462_Forg...

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.

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

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

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.

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).

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 ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... & earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

📣 📣 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

M7.8 earthquake, Kamchatka, at 18.58 UTC on 18 September 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horizontal pendulum school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

#Tsunami#EarthquakeA 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...

#Earthquake (#землетрясение) possibly felt 2 min 11 sec ago in #RussianFederation. Felt it? Tell us via: 📱https://m.emsc.eu/#app 🌐https://m.emsc.eu 🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org#Earthquake⚠ Automatic crowdsourced detection, not seismically verified yet. More info soon!

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

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...

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

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.

M5.4 earthquake, Colombia, at 07.12 UTC on 14 September 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

#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...

M7.4 earthquake, Kamchatka, at 02.37 UTC on 13 September 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horizontal pendulum school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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

M5.0 earthquake, Greece, at 21.27 UTC on 8 September 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M5.6 earthquake, Afghanistan, at 16.56 UTC on 4 September 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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. ⚒️🧪

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.

M6.0 earthquake, Afghanistan, at 19.17 UTC on 31 August 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' (top) and horizontal pendulum school seismometers #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

M6.0 earthquake, Severo-Kuril'sk, at 03.49 UTC on 27 August 2025. Recorded in Nottingham using 'slinky' school seismometer #earthquake ⚒️ #geology 🦕 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

237 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ 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