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Head full of rock. 🧪⚒️ Geochemist @durhamearthsci.bsky.social scot, hibee, husband, dad, reader, dog walker, typographical errer
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Pyroclastic loaf

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“I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful…” 🪨📸 February 20, 1902 , birthday of American landscape photographer and environmentalist Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984). He is best known for his black-and-white images of the American West.

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Tholeiitic dolerite from Ben Hiant summit, Ardnamurchan, Scotland, which forms the highest point on the British mainland's most westerly projection. On a clear day the 360° (horizontal) panorama is unbeatable ... but this beauty is beneath your feet! #ThinSectionThursday ⚒️🧪🌋

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Ruby blue Valentine: Corundum is red Corundum is blue Don't ID crystals Just by their hue 🧪⚒️

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Some amazing pictures of the active lava flow at the base of the Bocca Nuova crater #Etna 🌋 Credits: Emilio Messina Photography

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Spinifex olivine in the only Phanerozoic komatiites, from Gorgona Island for #ThinSectionThursday 🧪⚒️

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Tell me a date with better birthdays that February 12. I'll wait. 🎂🎉🧪🎸🎩🐾

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Striking how progressions on left resemble interference colours. 🧪

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🚨Job opportunity!🚨The School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine invites applications for a Lecturer of Earth Surface Processes position! Please share. Follow link below for more info: ⚒️🧪🌊❄️🥼 #academicjobs fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Stable Isotope Geochemist: The geothermometer is active.

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