🦖 66 million years in the making… the most epic Thanksgiving dinner ever. 🦕 Happy #Thanksgiving from the Cretaceous crew! ⚒ #Geology #paleontology #dinosaurs

#Nature is fantastic! My long-time animal neighbours have lived here since 2020 (at least!). A pair of wood #pigeons, Columba palumbus. Every night they return & sit in the exact same spots on "their" birch tree. On colder nights, they sit side by side to keep each other warm. #birds 🕊 🐦

⛏ #MineralMonday ⚒ 📷 Cryolite & Siderite Known by Inuits long time, first samples recovered start 1800's. Commercially mined from 1854, peak production 1942+1985, site closed ~1987. Worlds largest reserve of naturally ocurring Cryolite 📍 Ivigtût Mine, Greenland 🇬🇱 #RockyMonday #geology #minerals

⛏ #FossilFriday 🗺 🔎A find from my hunt for #fossils: Crinoids from Solnhofen Plattenkalk. ⚒ No need for preparation - nature did it perfectly ⛏ ⏳ Upper Jurassic 📍 Bavaria, Germany #geology #geoscience #paleontology #Solnhofen #fossil

🚶‍♂️ Walk along the Moorerlebnispfad trail through Huvenhoopsmoor in #Niedersachsen / 🇩🇪 🔎 Peatlands store 5x more CO2 worldwide (per m²) than forests =》 UNSURPASSED ! 👉 Preserving peatlands & rewetting them contributes to regional nature conservation + global #ClimateProtection #Geology #Nature ⚒

⛏ It's #FossilFriday 🗺 ⚒ Let's start a series of DIY Paper Fossils! 🌸 How about 'Lilies of the Sea' ?! 🔎 Crinoids, also known as sea lilies, are ancient marine animals related to starfish and sea urchins. 📲 🖨 📄 ✂️ #geology #geoscience #paleontology #fossil #kids #DIY

⛏ #RockyMonday ⚒ Heligoland ‘Fish eyes’: mostly round, dark-coloured concretions of cuprite and/or chalcocite. 🔎 Buntsandstein / Bunter Sandstone (Lower Triassic) 🦕 📷 Rock sample from 📍Heligoland, Schleswig- Holstein, 🇩🇪 #Geology #geoscience #sandstone #sediment #RockArt #rock #Helgoland

🌺 #FlowerFriday 🌿 The #Phaedranassa tunguraguae is growing another flower stalk, 2nd time this year! Far ahead of the usual time...just 9 months after the last blossom. What an amazing surprise! 🌱 🌴 #Amaryllidaceae #Ecuador #nature #plants #flowers #gardening #plantlovers

⛏ Midweek geology ⚒ ❓ How do Ammonoids look inside? -》Let's ✂️ & 👀 👉 Ammonoids lived in the world oceans for ~350 million years from early Devonian until the extinction of the Dinosaurs 66my ago. 🔎 Outside of an #Ammonoids #fossil (left) & one with polished inside (right) 👇

👻 Happy Halloween! 💀 A tupilak is a mystical being created by a shaman from animal and other body parts and brought to life through rituals. 📍 Inuit carving from 🇬🇱 /Sisimiut #KalaalitNunaat #Greenland #Grønland #HappyHalloween #Halloween

⛏ #RockyMonday ⚒ A few rocky impressions to start the new week! 🔎 Cave sediment / concretion 📏 Width: 8 cm or 3.15 inches 📷 Rock sample from 📍Sardinia, 🇮🇹 Italy #Geology #geoscience #sediment #concretion #RockArt #rock #soil #carst #carbonate #Sardinia #Italy

🌺 #FlowerFriday 🌿 Update! The #Phaedranassa tunguraguae bulb has spread and developed a bastard branch. A new shoot grows directly at the edge of the pot. 🌱 🌴 #Amaryllidaceae #Ecuador #nature #plants #flowers #gardening #plantlovers

🌺 #FlowerFriday 🌵 One of my favourite plants. It has more arms than an 🐙 but is an epiphytic cactus. Pink and blue flowers, produces lots of fruits. ✏ Disocactus amazonicus 🌱 🌴 #cactus #epiphyte #flowers #flowerphotography #plant #nature #FlowersOnFriday

🌺 #FlowerFriday 🌿 Finally the #Phaedranassa tunguraguae is in full blossom. Flowers opened one after the other and always during the night. 🌱 🌴 #Amaryllidaceae #Ecuador #nature #plants #flowers #gardening

🌺 #FlowerFriday 🌱 🌴 The #Phaedranassa tunguraguae is growing another flower stalk! Precise as a ⏱! 3rd time in a row, once a year in ~Jan-Feb. #Amaryllidaceae #Ecuador #nature #plants #flowers

Learning from past & present disasters is essential! And to do a truthful RCA: 🔥🔥🔥 needs fuel... Part 2: introduced non-native grasses www.science.org/content/arti... #California #LosAngeles

Learning from past & present disasters is essential! And to do a truthful RCA: 🔥🔥🔥 needs fuel... One cause for devastating 🔥's in #California #LosAngeles (also: #Spain #Portugal ) are introduced invasive non-native plants & grasses! Part 1: Eucalyptus www.cal-ipc.org/resources/li...

The show has begun! Thank you nature to be amazing and for surprising me unexpectedly. #Polarlichter über #Bremen #Deutschland #Aurora borealis over Northern #Germany

⛏ It's Rocky Monday again! 📍📷 Rock samples from Kennecott Mines /Alaska • Discovered in 1899, five mines operated from 1911 - 1938. The copper minerals include chalcocite, chalcopyrite, bornite, with associated malachite, azurite and cuprite. ⚒

⛏ Rocky Monday 🌋 Subantarctic Macquarie Island is the only place on earth where rocks from the earth’s mantle are being actively exposed above sea level. These unique exposures include pillow basalts & other extrusive rocks. ⚒ Amazing geology & wildlife!

The first flower of Pinguicula is predicting spring time will start soon... 🌱 🌴

🌏 Travel Tuesday 🐻‍❄ Travel souvenirs always bring back memories. Great wildlife & amazing geology at the Russian Arctic National Park. 📍 Бухта Тихая / Tikhaya Bay on Hooker Island, Franz Josef Land, Russia.

Monday update... First flower of Phaedranassa tunguraguae opened today. 🌱 🌴

Update... Flowers of Phaedranassa tunguraguae are growing fast! 🌱

My Phaedranassa tunguraguae is growing flowers again. 🤗 👉 Amaryllidaceae, endemic around the slopes of the Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador. Grown from seeds, now ~2.5 years old. Last (first) blossom was Jan'23, after 1.5 years. 🌱

⛏ RockyMonday 🌋 Pāhoehoe lava 🔎 Pāhoehoe lava flows have surfaces that are typically ropy, billowing, hummocky, or smooth. 📷 Rock sample from 📍Masaya Caldera, Parque Nacional Volcán Masaya, Nicaragua. ⚒

🌏 TravelThursday 🐊 Remembering my Aussie travels Three of my fav things down under: - you can wear a hat in the 🌞 - drink your fav drink - investigate your fav plant Grass Tree 'Xanthorrhoea' (while wearing your fav hat 🤠)

Santa is travelling again... Merry Christmas! 🧪 ⚒ 🦑

⛏ Rocky Monday -- Urban Geology -- 🔎 Red sandstone (quarried from Head of Holland/north of Kirkwall) & yellow sandstone (believed quarried on Eday/Orkney’s northern isles) revealing 850y's of weathering. 📍📷 St. Magnus Cathedral - Kirkwall - Orkney - Scotland ⚒

⛏ It's Fossil Friday again! 🗺 🔎 Limestone with abundant bivalve & gastropod fossils 📍📷 (2018) Street bench in front of Osprey Leisure Centre - Castletown - Portland - UK ⚒ 🦑

🌎 TravelTuesday 🌐 -- Art of the Northeastpassage -- The folk art of bone carving has been an old tradition with the Chukchi inhabiting the northeast coast of the Chukchi Peninsula & Diomede Islands. Here: skillful fisherman 📍 Provideniya - Chukotka Autonomous Okrug - Russia

⛏ It's FossilFriday Really beautiful! 🔎 Ammonite Paracoroniceras lyra Age: Lower Jurassic (195 my). Location: Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Picture taken (2019) at Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. ⚒ 🦑

🌋 Iceland Reykjanes info Interested in real-time seismicity from Grindavík? Find below the YouTube livestream of live DAS data from Seismology & Wave Physics ETH Zürich 👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=MUt7... 🧪 ⚒

🌎 TravelTuesday 🌐 🔎 There are 5 Roald Amundsen busts placed around the world 1/5 Inside Northwestpassage Amundsen & crew of his converted fishing vessel, Gjoa, arrived in this Kitikmeot community 1903 (spent ~two years). 📍 Uqsuqtuuq / ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ / Gjoa Haven - King William Island - Nunavut - Canada

🌋 Iceland / Reykjanes Drone video taken by ruv.is Ragnar Visage. What strikes me as I look onto Nesvegur: there is no/very small lateral displacement caused by the earthquakes. Good example of cracks caused by uplift due to ascending magma intrusion. ⚒🧪

🌋 Iceland volcano Info The official source for all Icelandic volcanoes with in depth background information is: icelandicvolcanoes.is/index.html 👉 Also a section about 'Reykjanes & Svartsengi volcanic systems' A b i g catalogue of 🌋knowledge! 🧪

🌋 Iceland Reykjanes Webcam's There are 3 new RÚV webcams if you want to take a look what is going on: • Svartsengi frá Þorbirni • Grindavík - Sýlingafell south • Grindavík - Sýlingarfell north ⚒ 🧪

It's #FossilFriday Ventriculites radiatus Mantell, 1822: Fossilized silica sponge (marine suspension feeder). Age range: Cretaceous [112 Ma to 66 Ma]. Size: 21cm x 3.5cm Collected at Lägerdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. ⚒ 🧪 🦑

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🌎 TravelTuesday 🌐 🗻 Wanne taste lava to go? 🔎 Hraun is the name of an Icelandic chocolate bar. And it's also the local word for lava. 🌋 DON'T act like a #volcano when you are hungry! 🌋🍫 Where to get? 📍 Iceland ⚒ 🧪

Add a bit of colour into Tuesday! Detail of a Pāua shell or abalone. 🔎 Haliotis iris 📍Aotearoa / NewZealand 🐙 🧪

🔎 The Parliament House walls+columns are made of grey Tākaka marble from Kairuru quarry. The basement+steps are made of grey, speckled Coromandel granite. 📍📷 Wellington /Aotearoa/NewZealand ⚒ 🧪