Cerros de la Plaza Glacier
2013 | 2025

One more for the history books! 😢

Extinction of this glacier de la Sierra Nevada del Cocuy is imminent! 🔥🧊✝️

📷 Via Daniel Zoque

See also this timelapse:
www.planet.com/stories/cerr...

Trumpese, a hitherto unknown dialect…

Aka, word salad.

Is he talking about the kidnapping raid in Caracas?

Rhodochrosite with Galena, Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite which present white, amber, lead and pinkish colours across the specimen.

Happy Galena-tines!

Rhodochrosite with Galena, Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite.

When hit, Galena will break along three directions of weakness that meet at right angles, creating smaller cubes. Galena’s hardness is similar to that of a fingernail.

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This photograph is the last known authentic snap of the RMS Titanic on the surface of the ocean.

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#11F A short history of the early female geoscientists from Argentina #mujeresdelaspiedras #diainternacionaldelamujerylaniñaenlaciencia #womeninstem ⚒️🧪
#historyofpalaeontology
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Messy enough to create a diverse range of chemical interactions between the different tectonic areas.

Chemical interactions that could have well created the right conditions for early life to start and develop.

Link to article www.isterre.fr/english/news...

Now, scientists have found that different tectonic regions were doing different things, contrary to the notion that there was tectonic uniformity globally. It was messy and varied from parts of the planet having a stable crust, to others with signs of early plate-like movement.

This is key to getting an understanding of early Earth. Given that no early rocks are available from Earth’s first billion years, zircons from the oldest rocks are the only of looking into that era.

Zircons are a geoscientist’s time capsule or a kind of black box. These tough minerals, although minuscule, have survived for billions of years and have locked in chemical signatures from when they formed.

#geology #geoscience #tectonics

Early Earth ran multiple "operating systems", before settling for the tectonic activity that we know today.

Nothing is set in stone, or in this case, zircons. Or is it?

Latest research, (see link below), is rewriting our understanding of how Earth's crust behaved 3.6-4 billion years ago.

Triangle with each of the corners labeled. The top corner says people who like camping the left corner says lab rats in the right corner says computer gates. Different areas are marked for different GS scientist. There is a picture of a woman halfway between people who like to camp and lab rats.

Ternary diagram of geoscientists. Where do you fall?

🇲🇽 🇨🇺 Mexico has dispatched two Navy logistics ships from Veracruz to Cuba carrying more than 814 tons of humanitarian aid for civilians, under orders from President Claudia Sheinbaum. The shipment includes staple foods and hygiene supplies, with the Papaloapan transporting mixed goods and the Isla Holbox carrying powdered milk. The vessels are due to arrive in about four days. Mexican authorities said another 1,500 tons of powdered milk and beans are slated for future delivery, describing the operation as part of Mexico’s ongoing humanitarian support to Cuba in a statement.

See new posts Conversation Relaciones Exteriores @SRE_mx Translated from Spanish STATEMENT. “The Government of Mexico sends humanitarian aid to the people of Cuba, through two vessels of the Mexican Navy”. https://gob.mx/sre/prensa/gobierno-de-mexico-envia-ayuda-humanitaria-a-la-hermana-republica-de-cuba-a-traves-de-dos-buques-de-la-armada-de-mexico Rate this translation:

🇲🇽 🇨🇺 Mexico has dispatched two Navy logistics ships from Veracruz to Cuba carrying more than 814 tons of humanitarian aid for civilians, under orders from Pres. Claudia Sheinbaum. The shipment includes staple foods & hygiene supplies, with the Papaloapan transporting mixed goods & the Isla Holbox...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

A bit of humour maybe, the photo shows tle petit train jaune, which goes through a bit of the French Pyrenees. Nice photo,but why not a TGV, which does go between cities.

A bit of humour, the photo shows tle petit train jaune, which goes through a bit of the French Pyrenees. Nice photo, but why not a TGV, which does go between cities.

😎 This weekend, ESA marks 18 years of Europe’s Columbus laboratory in orbit, and we’ve got a couple of these epic ‘How Columbus Learnt to Fly’ books to give away! Just share this post for a chance to win!👍

If you watch and listen to anything today, listen to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
Remember the leverage Palantir now has in our NHS because of an enormous deal done without any competition I may add, a gift from Mandelson & Streeting

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is right about Palantir, it needs to GO

Any link to an article?

Israeli forces bulldozed part of the Gaza War Cemetery in eastern Gaza City, destroying sections containing the graves of more than 100 British, Australian, Polish, and other allied soldiers from World War I and II, according to satellite imagery and witness testimony reported by The Guardian. Images show flattened grave sections, removed headstones, and earth berms consistent with heavy machinery. Israel said the area was an active combat zone and claimed “defensive measures” were taken to neutralize alleged Hamas fighters and underground Hamas infrastructure. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission confirmed extensive damage to memorials and grave sections, calling the destruction deeply troubling.

Israeli forces bulldozed part of the Gaza War Cemetery in eastern Gaza City, destroying sections containing the graves of more than 100 British, Australian, Polish, and other allied soldiers from World War I & II, according to satellite imagery & witness testimony reported by The Guardian. Images...

Thin Section Thursday!
Incipient crystallization of plagioclase during continuous decompression in an experimental charge. Backscatter Electron Image. Contributed by Thomas Shea, Univ. of Hawai’i
Send image(s) and short caption to akoziol1 (at) udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Why is it always ‘former’ or ex officials. The mea culpa is wearing thin.

According to the legal document, this additional time is necessary for the prosecution to “produce discovery”

Meaning that there is sketchy evidence at the moment. That’s the rule now, seize, arrest and then gather the evidence?

Large part of trilobite from Morocco

#trilobitetuesday

#Geology in urban settings

This post is on London's stone-clad buildings, I'm on a geological treasure hunt, focusing this time on wonderful granites hidden in plain sight.

Hint: there’s an app for #urbangeology - on the website: London pavement geology, but it is about facades as well.

#Londongeology

Thousands of people walk past, every day, without ever giving a thought of the urban geology that surrounds them.

Clues:

One survived a southerly meteorite impact
The other carries a "lone star"
Ages: 3.08 billion years and 1.1 billion years old

Context: adorning a city merely 2,000 years old.

What would you say, if said that there is a “Billion Years” in the heart of the City of London?

What if I told you that there are many unremarkable buildings in London, with stone facades that have travelled far and can have spellbinding histories spanning over billions of years.

#Londongeology