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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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National Pet Day seems a good excuse for a picture of the wagster. #NationalPetDay (The good boy in my profile picture was her predecessor.)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I was fortunate enough to grow up within walking distance of all of this. 😍

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

More exciting subduction insight from the VoiLA project 🧪⚒️🌋

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Cross polarised light view of basalt from the Massif Central with large olivine phenocrysts, beautiful elongate plagioclase laths and interstitial clinopyroxene #ThinSectionThursday 🧪⚒️

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Join us at the University of Göttingen as a Research Assistant in Metamorphic Petrology and explore the mobilization and fractionation of REE, Th, and U during crustal melting. 📌 Find the full job posting at domsorger.eu #metamorphicpetrology #monazite #garnet #rareearthelements #unigöttingen

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Job alert: Research Assistant in Isotope Geochemistry & Archaoemetallurgy, Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Archäometrie (DE). Apply by 15 May. More info: buff.ly/6AgIHOz

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Kanlaon Volcano erupted at 5:51 AM on 8 April 2025, sending a 4,000-meter-high ash plume southwest and triggering pyroclastic flows on its southern slopes. Alert Level 3 remains in effect.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Flights over a cauldron of the Earth. Meradalir, Iceland (2022).

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

🧪🌋⚒️ Powerful display: 200m high #lava fountain and 700m long lava flow from episode 16 of Kilauea summit eruption, 1-Apr-25, as seen from #USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory helicopter overflight. They report a 1.5 m-thick tephra blanket has formed near the vent since eruption beginning, 23-Dec-24.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Just, brilliant.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Stunning!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Indonesia: Mount Marapi erupted on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at 16:04 WIB. The height of the eruption column was observed to be ± 1000 m above the peak (± 3891 m above sea level).

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Fascinating ideas from @thwbecker.bsky.social's team that link up with ideas Robert Hall proposed for plate deformation in SE Asia. Tectonic plates are much less stable entities than usually depicted, even over (geologically) quite short timescales. doi.org/10.1144/sp35...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Animation showing a north-south rupture in the ground west of the Irrawaddy River, Mandalay, Myanmar, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck on 28 March. In response to the disaster, #CopernicusEMS and the #DisastersCharter have been activated to provide satellite imagery to help relief efforts.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

eruption at south end of Sundhnukar now ! #volcanism #icealnd #geosciences from www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjKk...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

“The eruption fissure that opened shortly before 10am is now 700 m long and has not grown for about an hour. The 2nd fissure, which opened just inside the barriers shortly before 11am, is considerably smaller but appears to be trying to extend S towards Grindavík.“ 🧪⚒️ www.ruv.is/english/2025...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Well, we certainly think that Durham University is worth driving round the world for! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The professor of sniffology is conducting research.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Glassy lava from Tongoa Island, Vaunatu, in plane polarised light. Clinopyroxene and plagioclase form glomerophyric clusters. These are surrounded by rounded vesicles (gas bubbles) frozen into the brown glass (liquid) when the lava was rapidly quenched #ThinSectionThursday 🧪⚒️

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