GeoMagpie

Have you seen the amazing Hutton Hat?

Handmade from Shetland Wool, showcasing three key Hutton Geosites - Edinburgh, Siccar Point, and Glen Tilt.

You can bag one of these in exchange for a donation to our crowdfunder - hurry, there are only 10 left!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/siccar-point

YouTube video by Scottish Geology Trust Help us build a Deep Time Trail at Siccar Point

Siccar Point is one of the most important geoheritage sites in the world; we think visitors deserve to hear why.

Help us install a Deep Time Trail - donate to the Crowdfunder now. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/siccar-point

youtu.be/OeHsVJiO9gE

The lithograph described in the post, on a wooden table and held in place with two rocks.

This beautiful lithograph shows the Allars Mill unconformity in Jedburgh.

Similar to Siccar Point, the section shows folded Silurian greywackes overlain by horizontal Devonian sandstone.

Donation to secure your own copy: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/siccar-point

xckd coming of a flowchart. The top reads "someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen?" A diamond-shape says "start" and one arrow leads to a box reading "NO" in very large letters, followed by "(there are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever DOES figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world's seismologists will not shut up about it. You won't need this flowchart."

Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com

YouTube video by Scottish Geology Trust Coming Soon - Deep Time Trail Crowdfunder

We've exciting things in the pipeline, watch on to hear from @Historic_Ally and find out more!

Crowdfunder, launching September 15th 2025.

www.scottishgeologytrust.org/crowdfunder/

youtu.be/OjUqk2vyTkQ

📅 SAVE THE DATE: 6 JULY // 1PM // Argyle Square Gardens, King's Cross, London

Join us for a youth-led rally (all ages welcome!) to demand:

📢 No more First Past the Post
📢 Proportional Representation now

RSVP & SPREAD THE WORD: actionnetwork.org/events/londo...

A hot pink dragonfly perched on a dead twig. There is water and foliage in the background.

A hot pink dragonfly has landed in your feed to give you a little doomscrolling break.
Roseate Skimmer (Orthemis ferruginea), Texas
#FridayFlyday #Inverts

Geology Bites

A new episode of #GeologyBites from Oliver Strimpel @geologybites.bsky.social
Rob Strachan, Portsmouth University on the Caledonian orogeny. 
www.geologybites.com
Fills a Greenland shaped gap for me between Norway, UK and Newfoundland

A 5x5 inch print of a stone with gold embellishment

Oconaluftee ✨ Shaped by sacred
waters. This is one of my favorite river stones. I sold the original drawing a couple years ago. Prints are now available! #art #sciart #earth #magic

Abstract landscape: night sky with noctilucent clouds, green aurora, a comet over 2 large glacial erratics

Day 2 #ArtAdventCalendar evening

Once In A Lifetime
36in x66in 91x167cm
Oil on Canvas
2021
Commission #Art #Painting

Any chance I could be added to the feed please? 🤗

Ink and digitally colored artwork of a festive Tyrannosaur covered in a holly pattern, surrounded by rainbow shooting stars, magnolia blooms, evergreen trees, and more holly bunches.

Repeating pattern of festive Tyrannosaurs covered in a holly pattern, rainbow shooting stars, magnolia blooms, evergreen trees, and more holly bunches.

"A Cretaceous Christmas: Tyrannosaurus"
Ink on paper & digital color
2022

Always on a mission to get more natural history into the holiday season 🌈🦖🎄

www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1346...

#SciArt #PaleoArt

Geological 🐡 #SciArt on a tea towel

Does this count as #SciArt? 😁

This is stunning! 😍

A circle motif containing simplified geological artwork. The circle is split with an approximate diagonal from top right to bottom left. The contents of the bottom right represent vertical Silurian greywacke beds, and are shades of grey and brown. The top left sector of the motif is split into a red area, representing sub-horizontal Devonian sandstones directly overlying the greywackes, with a vivid blue above representing the sea and sky (yes, we do get blue skies in Scotland 😂). Beneatht the circle, text follows the line of the circle and says "looking so far into the abyss of time".

The text beneath the motifs is from John Playfair's famous quote "The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far back into the abyss of time." Here is a close up of the original colour motif - water colour pencils. Now I just need to decide which one I want myself 😂

Screenshot showing four t-shirts in a grid. The top left is a ladies-fit t-shirt in a pale grey with a large circular motif in the centre. The motif shows vertical brown / grey rocks underlying sub-horizontal red rocks, with blue sea or sky in the background. A quote beneat the motif says "... looking so far back into the abyss of time." The top right shows a blue unisex-fit t-shirt with a large, central, circular motif similar to the previous one, but this is just a black outline. Bottom left us a red unisex-fit t-shirt with the same black outline motif, but small and located on the left breast area. Bottom right is a black ladies fit t-shirt with a white version of the simplified motif, large and central.

Hutton's Unconformity at Siccar Point on a t-shirt? I have two pieces of art available on t-shirts at Contrado. Selection of background colours to choose from. All Available in unisex or ladies fit. www.contrado.co.uk/stores/mahin...

A close up of the top of the tea towel in the photos in the previous skeet. It shows the top 15cm of the quartz crystal drawing, showing three faces of the prismatic crystal.

I'm really impressed with the print quality on these towels. You can dry your dishes with it or you can hang it on your wall! (If you want this design on a different type of item, let me know and I can try to set it up)

Photograph of a large tea towel with a fairly loose-looking weave. There is a large pencil drawing of a crystal in the centre of the tea towel. To the left is a 30 cm ruler for scale, showing that the length of the drawing is around 50cm. To the right is a cluster of quartz crystals about 15 cm long.

A photograph of the quartz crystals from the previous image being held in a human hand, with the printed tea towel in the background.

Here's a photo of one of the actual items, along with the crystal that modelled for me when I was drawing. This is the cotton-linen blend with the standard edge.

An image of a tea towel with an intricate pencil drawing of a cluster of quartz crystals

GeoMagpie is mostly about jewellery that tells geological stories. But I also dabble with various other art forms, and now you can get my pencil drawing of a cluster of quartz crystals on a tea towel www.contrado.co.uk/stores/mahin...

Can I join please? I make jewelry that tells geological stories 💎

A triangular shaped specimen which resembles a pizza slice. There's a bed of fine, minute white to off-yellow quartz crystals (like cheese on a pizza). This quartz is partially covering blue fluorite octahedra, which have triangular faces all pointing upwards in the same direction. Embedded in the specimen are some purple fluorite crystals and golden coloured chalcopyrite. Label text: Blue octahedra in parallel position coated with quartz, chalcopyrite and purple fluorite. Caradon Mine, Cornwall. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

I love #minerals that could pass as an alien artefact 😅. There's quite a lot going on in this specimen: blue fluorite octahedra all orientated in the same direction, golden chalcopyrite crystals, more fluorite (but purple this time) and a nice coating of white-yellow quartz! #MineralMonday

Am I the only one disappointed that this starter pack isn't called "Seismolology"?

Alternating black, grey and pale brown bands are crumpled by small scale folding (scale is approx. 8cm long). These are severely flattened pillow lavas in a Svecofennian greenstone belt. located on the island of Kumlinge in the Åland Islands, Finland.

This was the first geological photo I posted on Twitter back in January 2021.

#FridayFold Small scale folding of flattened pillow lavas, (scale approx. 8cm long). Svecofennian greenstone belt, Kumlinge, Åland Islands, Finland.
⚒️🧪 #Geology

Outcrop of white, dark and light grey folded banded gneiss, about 2m high with tufts of grass at top. Shows variation of fold inter-limb angle, going from gentle on the left, through open, closed and tight, to isoclinal on the right as a shear zone is approached. Norway somewhere.

Archive photo for #FoldFriday #FridayFold from a Keele field course to Norway ~1990. An image I still use to demonstrate fold classification by inter-limb angle, going from gentle on the left, through open, closed and tight, to isoclinal on the right as a shear zone is approached.

Just a couple of days left to apply to join SGT's Board of Trustees!

Not sure how much overlap there is between my science and art audiences, so for those of you who haven't already seen, the Scottish Geology Trust have arrived! Follow them for cool rocks and Scottish Geology insights!

Scottish Geology Trust / URRAS GEOLAS NA H-ALBA Seeking new trustees! Scottish Geology Trust (SGT) are seeking two new trustees to lead on developing our fundraising and membership strategies. Ideal candidates will have a strategic mind-set and experience of successful fundraising the heritage sector or relevant experience with membership-based organisations. A connection to Scotland and interest in geology is desirable but not necessary. We welcome applications from candidates who are under-represented in the wider Scottish Geological Communities, and who are looking for their first trustee role. Apply by 23:59 (GMT) on Sunday November 17th. For full details visit www.scottishgeologytrust.org/sgt-seeking-new-trustees/

Do you want an opportunity to gain experience in strategic leadership and governance? At the Scottish Geology Trust, we are recruiting 2 new trustees. More details at www.scottishgeologytrust.org/sgt-seeking-new-trustees/ Feel free to message me for an informal chat. Please spread the word.

Cutting edge research. Why isn't this a nature paper?

Published between 1802 and 1817, British Mineralogy and Exotic Mineralogy comprise 718 illustrations by James Sowerby in an effort to illustrate the topographical mineralogy of Great Britain and minerals not then known to it. Sowerby’s plates are some of the finest examples of hand-drawn mineral illustrations ever created. The detail and care with which these illustrations were created is incredible and worthy of close examination. Most of Sowerby’s 718 illustrations contained multiple drawings, totaling 2,242 individual images which were arranged by color into a large interactive collage and poster celebrating Sowerby’s work.

How have I not seen this before? Mineral illustrations by James Sowerby, lovingly scanned & arranged by @rougeux.bsky.social

www.c82.net/work/?id=384

It might be of interest to @mineralcup.bsky.social #mincup24