🌴 Tropics, ⛏ Geology, 🕵️‍♂️ deadly schemes - welcome to Dr. No. This happens when a geologist watches movies: ...he starts checking the movie props. #FilmSky #BookSky #movies #JamesBond #DrNo #geology

HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice Volcano: Kilauea (VNUM #332010) 🌋 Volcano Alert Level: WATCH ✈ Current Aviation Color Code: 🟠 ‼️ Episode 42 of lava fountaining in Halemaʻumaʻu began at the summit of Kīlauea began at 1:50 pm HST on February 15, 2026 ‼️ #geology #geoscience #Volcano #volcanism

🌋 More about Hawaii & volcanism: www.usgs.gov/observatorie...

USGS Daily Elevated Volcano Summary ⚒ 🌋 Kilauea Volcano Alert Level = WATCH. ✈ Aviation Color Code = 🟠 Issued Thu., Feb. 12, 2026 19:02 UTC ⏸ The Halemaʻumaʻu eruption of Kīlauea is paused ⏸ ⚠️ The forecast for the onset of episode 42 lava fountaining is February 13-17 ⚠️ 🌋 What's your guess?

USGS Daily Elevated Volcano Summary ⚒ 🌋 Kilauea Volcano Alert Level = WATCH. ✈ Aviation Color Code = ORANGE Issued Wed., Feb. 11, 2026 19:02 UTC ⏸ The Halemaʻumaʻu eruption of Kīlauea is paused. ⏸ ⚠️ Forecast for the onset of episode 42 lava fountaining is February 14-17. ⚠️

USGS Daily Elevated Volcano Summary ⚒ 🌋 Kilauea Volcano Alert Level = WATCH. ⏸ The Halemaʻumaʻu eruption of Kīlauea is paused. ⏸ ⚠️ Forecast for the onset of episode 42 lava fountaining is February 11-14. ⚠️

Geologists #caturday Seen during one of my trips thru #UK / #Scotland 📍 Shore Street, Ullapool, Scotland - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#MineralMonday 📷 A "nutshell" full of geological stories. This Lochaber Geopark Rock Box packs millions of years of Scottish Earth history. 📍Seen at: Lochaber Geopark Visitors Center, Fort William 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Geology #Rocks #STEM #MINT #Geopark ⚒

A geologist goes #fungifriday 📷 #Amanita muscaria 🍄 Prefers acidic soil & has ectomycorrhizal RLS w birch trees. Mycorrhizal symbiosis: biological partnership that existed for over 400 million years, playing foundational role in the history of life on land. That's LTR #fungifriends #mushrooms

(Hard-) #RockyMonday ⚒ 📷 Multiple generations of fractures & vein-fillings (white) inside crystalline rock. 📍Bellano, Lecco, Lombardy, Italy 🇮🇹 #geology #geoscience #Italy

So amazing currently! Pele is giving her best Saturday show! ⚒ "Tephra fall has been reported in public viewing areas within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Volcano Village, Mauna Loa Estates, and Ohia Estates. As of 12:10 p.m., both north & south vent fountains were over 500 m (1640 feet) tall."

⛏ For #FossilFriday 🐳 📷 Baleen whale skeleton 'Toipahautea waitaki' from Kokoamu Greensand, Hakataramea Valley, South Canterbury. ⏳ Age: Late Oligocene (28my) 📍 Collection of Tuhura Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand - 🇳🇿 🦑 #geology #geoscience #paleontology #fossil

...today's sunset! Will there be more #Aurora 💚 tonight? Let's see... #Photography #Sunset #Nature #Polarlichter #Niedersachsen

#Aurora #Polarlichter #Bremen #Niedersachsen

#Aurora #Polarlichter #Bremen #Niedersachsen

Native element #MineralMonday 🌋 📷 Sulphur 🔎 Liquid sulphur (🟠) and solid sulphur (🟡) deposits. 📍Kawah Ijen, East Java, Indonesia 🇮🇩 #geology #geoscience #travel #RockyMonday #volcanism

🌱 Probably the northernmost resident of it's kind at 53°8'N Xanthorrhoea preissii (Grass tree/balga): endemic to Australia, respond to wildfire by flowering profusely. Grass tree leaves are narrow, linear & stiff. 📷 grown from seeds, germination took 9+months, now ~6 years old, leaves 1,37m/54in.

⛏ It's #FossilFriday 🦑 📷 Part of a fossil Sea Urchin shell (Echinoderms) on Flint. My first fossil collected back then during school summer holidays. Probably the beginning why I studied #Geology/ #Palaeontology. 📍 Beach/cliff deposit: Løkken, Jammerbugt, Denmark 🇩🇰 #geoscience #fossil

⛏ It's #FossilFriday 🦑 📷 Ammonite Paracoroniceras lyra from Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. ⏳ Age: Lower Jurassic (195 my) 📍 Collection of Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland - UK 🇬🇧 #geology #geoscience #paleontology #fossil

⛏ #MineralMonday 🌊 📷 Wave Rock (Granite) 🔎 Hyden Rock: 15m/49ft high, 110m/360ft long cliff face. Shaped by weathering & water erosion. Orange+black stains are from lichens, mosses and algae. ⏳ Age: ~2.7 billion years 📍Hyden, WA - #Australia 🇦🇺 #geology #geoscience #travel #RockyMonday

⛏ May the New Year be as solid as bedrock, as inspiring as mountain ranges, and as full of discovery as the layers of Earth’s history. ⚒ 🍀 Happy New Year 2026 bsky! 🍀 🍀 #FrohesNeues 🍀 #HappyNewYear2026 #NewYear2026 #Welcome2026 #art

⚒ #MineralMonday 📷 ~ Amber ~ is fossilized tree resin. 🔎 Fun fact: a "rock" that burns! The term 'electricity' comes from 'elektron', which is the Greek word for amber. 📍 Beach deposit: Løkken, Jammerbugt, Denmark 🇩🇰 #RockyMonday #geology #geoscience #Denmark #gemstone

...another day sunset in color. #Photography #Sunset #Nature

...A quiet sunset where the day gently fades into night... #Photography #Sunset #Nature

🎄 Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄 ⚒ Rock solid wishes for the holidays! #Christmas2025 #MerryChristmas #FroheWeihnachten

Get ready for #Xmas2025 ! Santa has started from #Greenland ...he's coming to town! 🎄🎅☃️ #Weihnachten #Flightrader24 #MerryChristmas

⚒ #MineralMonday 📷 Main Dolomite [CaMg(CO3)2] Grey coarse limestone - often sugar crystal like surface. ⛏ If crushed, you can easily recognize typical smell of crude oil. ⏳ Late Triassic (Norian: 220 My) 📍Hochvogel, Allgäu Alps, Tyrol, Austria 🇦🇹 #RockyMonday #geology #geoscience #minerals

⚒ #FossilFriday 🦑 📷 Ventriculites radiatus Mantell, 1822. Fossilized silica sponge (marine suspension feeder) inside chalk. ⏳ Age range: Cretaceous [112 Ma to 66 Ma]. 📏 Size: 21x3.5cm / 8.2x1.4in 📍 Collected at Lägerdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany 🇩🇪 #geology #geoscience #palaeontology #fossil

⚒ #MineralMonday 📷 Pele's Hair Thin glass fibers known as Pele's hair, named after Hawaiian volcanic deity Pele 🌋 🔎 Bubbles of gas burst near the surface of a lava flow, it stretches the skin of molten lava into long threads. 📍 Volcán Masaya, Nicaragua 🇳🇮 #geology #geoscience #minerals #volcano

⚒ #FossilFriday 🦑 📷 Nummulites Type of fossil foraminifera, lived in the warm shallow seas of the Tertiary (~52my). 📍 Rock face of Piz d'Artgas (Elev.: 2600m/8530ft) , Grisons, Switzerland 🇨🇭 #geology #paleontology #fossil

📚 #VellumVerseWednesday I stumbled upon a piece of history in the book from last Wednesday – a newspaper article fragment from @nytimes.com Used the NYT archive & found it: Dec. 30th, 1947. 🗞️ Ink that travels through time! #NYTimes #NYC #Geology #HiddenTreasures #ScienceHistory #VintageBook

⛏ #MineralMonday 🖖 📷 Volcanic bomb with beautiful glassy texture. 📍 Yasur Volcano, Tanna - Vanuatu 🇻🇺 Sample taken shortly after being erupted out of the southern crater. 🌋 📏 Size: 13 x 7cm / 5.1 x 2.8in ⚒ #RockyMonday #geology #geoscience #minerals #Vanuatu #volcano #volcanism

Will be interesting to compare this site to other cold seeps from active continental margins: e.g. bacterial communities (ANME, SRB?), seep biota etc. & if cold seep carbonates (below the seep inside the sediment?) are also present? Looking forward to read more!

⚒ #FossilFriday 🦑 🐚 Faxe quarry's Danian reef 📷 Fossil cold-water coral mound ecosystem: e.g. scleractinian corals, over 120 species of small gastropods, echinoderms, bryozoans ⏳ Danian (66-61.6my) 🔎 Paleodepth 100-300m /328-984ft 📍 Faxe, Denmark 🇩🇰 #geology #geoscience #paleontology #fossil

⛏ Happy #BarbaraDay ⚒ Since the 12th century, "St. Barbara's Day" has been celebrated on December 4th. 💐 Barbara: Patron Saint of Miners and Geologists 💐 ⚒ Miners and ⛏ geologists commemorate Saint Barbara on this day. 🎶 🎉 🍻 ⛏ Glück Auf! ⚒ #BarbaraTag #Geology #geoscience #minerals #history

📚 #VellumVerseWednesday There's something special about old scientific books that takes you on a journey through time & discovery. 📖 1877 🕯📖 👀 Perfect for December winter days! #Geology #geoscience #Naturalsciences #ScienceHistory #poem #VintageBooks #LeatherBound #KnowledgeIsTimeless #books

⛏ #MineralMonday ⚒ 📷 The copper minerals include chalcocite, bornite, chalcopyrite, with associated malachite, azurite and cuprite. 🔎 Discovered in 1899, five mines operated from 1911- 1938. 📍 Kennecott Mines / Alaska #RockyMonday #geology #geoscience #minerals #Alaska

⛏ #FossilFriday 🦕 🔎 Today it's time to get to know the 🦖👑 and get involved in fossil acting! You can become a Tyrannosaurus Rex using the link below. 👇 👇 www.bgs.ac.uk/download/dis... Let's dive into an ancient world! 📲 🖨 📄 ✂️ 1/2 #geology #geoscience #paleontology #kids

🦖 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