robbie @rocknuts@qoto.org

Accurate AF

@urbangeology Yey! You're here!!

Let me greet you with this glorious polished #serpentinite cladding a wall in Nottingham. 🙂

You can lose yourself looking at what you could swear is 3d detail (Reader, it isn't!)

(For folk who are interested, serpentinites are rocks that form from changes to certain existing igneous rocks. Hydrothermal fluids that percolate through them can deposit minerals that solidify in in a snakeskin-like pattern - hence the name.)

#Geology #UrbanGeology

“Little by little, over more than two centuries, the local stories told by rocks in all parts of the world have been stitched together into a great global tapestry - the geologic timescale. This "map" of Deep Time represents one of the great intellectual achievements of humanity, arduously constructed by stratigraphers, paleontologists, geochemists, and geochronologists from many cultures and faiths. It is still a work in progress to which details are constantly being added and finer and finer calibrations being made.”
~ Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

https://stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2022-10.pdf

#DeepTime #GeologicTime #GeologicTimeScale #Geology #v2022 #InternationalChronoStratagraphicChart #InternationalCommitteeOnStratigraphy

My partner surprised me with an advent calendar and I can't stop laughing 😂

Today in “hashtags I am delighted to discover”: #PterosaurPtuesday

Travetonics in central Nevada. All I want for Xmas are some good U-series results... #geology

Misty #Morning in #Norway

Geochronology grant opportunities for graduate students! AGeS3 is back, and has funding opportunities for up to $10,000 for US based graduate students interested in collecting geochronology data. Check out https://agesgeochronology.org/ for more info, including details on an upcoming zoom informational session.
#geology #geochronology

My Crustal Rheology class students have fixed up some key
@Wikipedia
articles including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentinization (with complimentary adjustments to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentinite and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentine_subgroup), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudotachylyte, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slickenside and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_gouge

all topics I care deeply about and very extremely happy about the improvements they made!

What if the universe is set up just like the Fediverse, but we don’t know about the existence of any other life because our Earth instance was preemptively blocked for hateful conduct.

#DeepThoughts #universe #fediverse

With the Twitter reinstatement of the former US President who attempted to incite a fascist coup after losing an election, now would _really_ be a good time to stop cross-posting your Twitter RTs here.

If you feel that cross-posting is the only way to maintain a presence here, please consider limiting it to original posts without mentions or RTs, to avoid cluttering timelines with Twitter URLs. Thank you kindly for your consideration.

Twitter is a dopamine slot machine without the wager — open account, log in, start scrolling, get your fix while the algorithm discovers your addiction triggers and leverages your outrage threshold to maximize infinite scroll time.

Here, without a certain amount of curiosity & interest in discovery, the UX might be a shrug. But if you’re curious about and interested in the world, this place is a GOLDMINE of potential for connection.

#NewHere #TwitterMigration

#introduction
Hello! I'm new here, nice to meet you all!

I'm Francesca and I'm an Italian #artist currently based in London, UK.

My work is mostly #digital, painted with Corel Painter. I love reading #fantasy and #SciFi novels, and I love painting fantasy and sci-fi art. Recently, I paint a lot of #portraits in #oils too.

Apart from books and art, my main passions are live music and theatre and that's why I love London!

#MastoArt #DigitalArt #Dune #digitalpainting #fantasyart #illustration

The last few days before the asteroid crashed into Earth were filled with resignation, reminiscence, and confessions. All over social media:
"I have a crush on you."
"I actually like banana on pizza."
"I didn't lose the ring, I sold it."
"I faked the asteroid."
"I kiss... What?"
#MicriFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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