Simon Wellings

I'm working in an office in Slough industrial estate watching a gull collect sticks for a nest.
I guess windowless data centres are just another form of cliff, their tops safe from predators.

Also holly bushes stop growing prickles above the browse line and this is at mammoth height, which is higher than deer height.
E.g nearer 2 meters than 1.

I read somewhere (I think via @jacquelyngill.bsky.social ?) the idea that Northern European forests are missing mammoths still. Before humans, they would have played the role of knocking down trees and creating clearings.

Lighting like this is necessary to make the features visible, but whenever I see images of Ediacaran fossils my first reaction is to think they are images from a vampire film.

Wow. This includes even one of my (quote obscure) scientific papers. Still behind a paywall and copyright the Royal Irish Academy

I always feel sorry for goniatites. My Northern English experience of them is crushed grey on grey shale impressions. Yet presumably in life they were just as much a zipping tentacled dealer of death as ammonites. Super useful index fossils as well, just nobody puts them on lamp posts.

I like that the guy with the red beret is dressed as a tube of tomato paste.

Beige limestone. White flecks. A cross section of an ammonite in the middle

Similar to the other. A brown broken triangle shape is another fossil

Enjoying the frenzied limestone at Augsburg station, noisy with tropical life. Plenty of fossils and blotchy with bioturbation.
Each grain is the product of life and probably passed through the guts of, or been picked over by multiple critters subsequently
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blueschist-facies metabasite from our study area with complex, refolded isoclinal folds, consisting of alternating epidote and glaucophane layers.

1/ Have you ever suspected you had a shear zone hidden in poly-deformed metamorphic rocks but could not prove it? A brief thread showing how you can find clues from #geology, RSCM #thermometry, #metamorphic #petrology, and #zircon dating and an example from the Sanbagawa belt of Japan!
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People from Devon sometimes refer to themselves as 'Devonian'

Those are fabulous.

A picture of the guidebooks to the Ries and Steinheim impact craters by Julius Kayasch and the Meteor Crater Museum

Definitely go to the museum and buy the geo guidebooks. If you have transport go and see the suevite quarry at Altenburg, the overturned limestones at Gosheim Quarry and if you can get out to Steinheim crater, go there too 1/2

Lucky me is going to Nördlinger Ries soon (where a rock from space smashed into Germany). Just the town, briefly.

Apart from the visitors centre and the church made of suevite, any ideas on what should I look out for?
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A single rock can give many different ages, to put it another way. What they mean is sometimes not so obvious....

It depends on what they are getting the isotope age from. It's usually individual minerals. If those minerals are completely melted and reform, then you get a new age. Sometimes though minerals in an igneous rock weren't melted and show an older age. They're called 'antecrysts' IIRC.

just saw someone in the FT comments section referring to Tesla as the swasticar

I know it well. The red kites were exotic in the 90s but they've nearly reached London now. To my kids in suburban Reading they are totally normal, ever present.

You'll remember the cutting through the chalk then - quite spectacular in its way.

According to the Britice map shefuni.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...
they are all drumlins.

Exactly. Arguably lidar is even better for tracing human activities

Grey/blue image of a landscape, with curved valleys

Then the sinuous etched land of the Chilterns. The product of slow dissection of a huge slab of chalk. Frozen but not scoured by the Ice Ages. Some of these valleys have no streams.

Smooth scalloped shapes in grey/blue colours.

Revelling in the lidar DTM layer in the National library of Scotland website and the varied types of British landscapes it unveils.

First we have glacially shaped land in the Vale of Eden looking like the skin of a dinosaur.
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That's my experience also. I suspect there are a lot of bad training courses out there that people rightly take a dislike to.

Myers-Briggs can go too far, but most of its dimensions are similar to those in academic psychology's 'Big Five' with the vital caveat that they are descriptive. You can't tell your employees to change who they are but you can get them to think about psychological differences.

Geology and Building Stones in the City of London - London Walks Thinking about going on the guided Geology and Building Stones in the City of London tour? Have a little read about the sights, hidden spots, your guide and meeting point beforehand!

Next month, I’ll be starting my year’s programme of #urbangeology walks introducing the building stones of London with London Walks. The first date is 8 Feb. Cost, details and reservations at this link www.walks.com/our-walks/ge...

And there’s nothing like visiting a 5800 year old #LongBarrow for putting things in perspective. I also chose the hour where it was lit up by the sun. Do you spot the #Ammonite?

By jiggling around in the insides of some big bird/dinosaur, making it a gastrolith.

Wonderful.
Is there any research on the gold sourcing?

Any ideas on a species for this seed pod/nut?
Local or from further afield?
Found it washed up on the beach this morning.
County Clare, Ireland.

Folded metasandstones surrounded by schists (a type of metamorphic rock) with a pen for scale.

#GeologicalRelief for my American friends...

Some of the best folds I have seen in my life in schists and metasandstones... second phase folds refolding an earlier foliation parallel to bedding.

Paleozoic basement, Bocca di Magra, La Spezia (Italy)

#geology #folds #structuralgeology
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