#Geology

🎃🔞Mika the Cryptid🔞🎃

WitchyScribbles

I bet Qui-Gon fucks hard. Just destroys every hole you have, and keeps a completely serene expression the entire time.You're begging for mercy, and in a calm, encouraging tone he’s

Minorities in STEM

MinoritySTEM

Yes, it is Friday. Repping my favourite planet in t-shirt form this morning. Today's chat - the future of earth sciences in the UK! In the UK, the number of

Morgaine le Fee

MorgaineFee

I'm starting a #geology thread with #GlacialErratics I found in my region (Västerbotten, Sweden. Last glaciation: Weichsel, ended ca. 10ky ago).The first one is a porphyry.Found in: Umeå (esker)Probably from:

Selenaa

selenaa_dayys

I’ve started incorporating actual bullshit into my geology II concept sketch assignments (shown below)

Bobbin' for Apples (inadvisable - unhygienic)

bobreturns

Why I’m probably leaving academia, in one (better than most!) job advert.https://jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=FS0575 A lecturer position, which is the level I should hopefully be trying to move onto, but here's the

Folk Horror Magpie

folkhorrormagpi

I've never quite been the same since I learned about trovants. These are rocks, actual rocks, that not only 'grow' but MULTIPLY. The most famous example can be found in

benmcleish

bennmcleish

From around 1955 to 1963, our government allowed the UK to conduct twelve nuclear detonations in Australia, most of them at Maralinga in SA. Obviously, no permission was sought from

Liz Crash

AsFarce

Muscovite's name derives from its use in "Muscovy glass" in 17th century Russia. It easily breaks into very thin, translucent sheets that were cheaper than glass. This property means it

East Lothian Voices - a different person each week

EL_Voices

One of the things that's been most tricky over the past six months has been - very unsurprisingly - maintaining any kind of sense of perspective. So here's a wee

Patrick Chovanec

prchovanec

Most interesting: where India is.https://twitter.com/NinjaEconomics/status/1330361243379642369 I mean, we all know India came up and slapped into Asia from the south, which is how the Himalayas formed. But the origin of

manu #BLM 🖖

trekonomics

Oh shut the fuck up space brohttps://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/elon-musk-mars-spacex-starship-colony-b1179088.html Instead of literally shooting excess cash into space, why don't we make Earth habitable for every

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

morethanadodo

Lyell’s book controversially questioned the biblical belief that unique catastrophes, such as Noah’s flood, shaped the Earth’s surface. Instead Lyell promoted uniformitarianism- the view that the Earth was shaped by

HERI-tage Month #Language Matters

heri_uct

Hello everyone; just so you know it’s @Mavumavu91 here. I’m taking over in preparation for our #LanguageMatters series for Heritage Month. Come back at 6pm SAST Time and let’s start

Mark Sumner

Devilstower

On COVID-19 and catching it from people just "talking or breathing: Yes, there have been incidents that make it seem that this is sometimes the case. However, what's going on

Dr. Rachel Friedensen, Ph.D.

REFriedensen

Here's a little thread: @GoAskAScientist took Anastasia, me, and a friend on a tour part of one of our science buildings AND a planetarium show. That's right, @stcloudstate has a

Tim Shin

gneiss_tim

(1/n): so are you interested in #BlackinGeoscienceweek @BlkinGeoscience and want to know what some of us do? I love #structuralgeology: it's the study of the deformation of the surface and