Charlie Garayt

It is indeed the realm of the tardigrades. I filmed this one not far from where that picture is taken.

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Ancient Tsunami Tied to Volcanic Flank Collapse in Italy - Eos Stromboli’s volcanic cone may have suffered multiple flank collapses between the 14th and 16th centuries, triggering tsunamis that led to the abandonment of the island.

The Naples #tsunami struck the Tyrrhenian Sea on Nov 25, 1343. Triggered by an #earthquake - or a potential #landslide at Stromboli volcano - it caused significant damage and loss of lives in Naples. The tsunami destroyed ships in Naples and the coast and city of Amalfi. 🧪⚒️

eos.org/articles/anc...

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About me: I am interested in geodynamics, plate tectonics, natural hazards, georesources and the carbon cycle - using numerical models like the one below. 🧪⚒️

I co-organize and post about the monthly online #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar. More infos here: tinyurl.com/RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar

Illustrating a natural disaster on an #earlymodern #broadside:

After the #landslide of 1618 in #Piuro (then a city within the Three Leagues, Raetia) that wiped out the city and killed thousands, a Swiss printer came up with this idea: using a liftable flap that offers a before and after scenario.

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Pioneering Women in Earth Science The last 2-3 decades have seen a surge in interest towards the historical role of women in emerging Earth sciences from the 17th C and on.

I've added brief bios of a couple of Canadian paleontologists to 'Pioneering women in Earth science' who had a few 'firsts', bucking the male-dominated geology scene in the early 20th C - Alice Wilson & Madeleine Fritz ⚒️🧪

www.geological-digressions.com/how-to-do-fi...

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Are there volcanoes in Germany ?
Are there ACTIVE volcanoes in Germany ?

Those who equate volcanism with hot, red LAVA say NO.

Geologists say YES - & found that the number of micro-earthquakes increased around the active volcano at Lake Laach in the Volcanic Eifel.

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Here’s a few of my favorite radiolaria that we created for our Patreon. Radiolaria are microscopic marine protozoa that build incredibly intricate geometric skeletons from silica and they’ve been a big inspiration for our work for a long time. #sciart

“people who follow you actually see the things you post” is, apparently, a bespoke feature of social media only available here on bluesky

Thanks to a considerable help from @icebird.bsky.social this #Arctic & #Antarctic starter pack has significantly grown
- enjoy
go.bsky.app/7RL1i9C

Il est temps de ré-inviter la communauté scientifique/communication francophone climat-biodiv pour ce pack. go.bsky.app/LjZgnPy 🧪🌍

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Geology is racist, claims university professor Queen Mary lecturer links science to ‘white supremacy’ and and colonialism

You can imagine how well this article, with its glossy, clickbait headline, is going down on LinkedIn…

Professor Yusoff has written a whole-ass book on the links between racism, colonialism, and #geology, yet the fragile, white men are losing their shit…

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...

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Here's a quick weekend tip to help clarify your charts 📊

- Say out loud, in a sentence, what the audience is supposed to see in the shapes. -

"The orange line starts low but passes the others halfway through"
"The top bar is much longer than the second longest one"
"The big circles are all blue"

I was thinking about the shape of faults, I don't know if they are other (natural) causes of earthquakes?
So the shape is correlated with magnitude? And for earthquake swarm?

Photo of two fingers holding a creamy brown coloured piece of irregularly shaped carboniferous limestone. The rock is almost entirely composed of the fossilised remains of crinoids (marine animals - echinoderms related to starfish and urchins etc). The crinoids are mostly bits of cylindrical stem where ossicles are still joined and individual ossicles which appear disc shaped. some have been squashed and this happened before fossilisation. Blackhall Limestone, LLF, Fife.

Carboniferous limestone appreciation 🖤

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What is going on here? Soft-sediment deformation related to an earthquake? #Geology ⚒️

What is the shape of an earthquake?

What do you want to know about earthquakes?

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Explore our Minecraft volcano!

By using real-world data, the model shows how volcanic eruptions work, making complex geology more engaging for younger audiences.

BGS have a range of geological Minecraft worlds available. For more information, please visit:

www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-...

A metallic urn or pot-like structure has dragons surrounding the design. Each dragon has a ball in its mouth and is poised over a frong with its mouth agape.

A cutaway of the central jar-like structure is shown. It reveals a pendulum hanging at the center with an arm attached to each of the dragon heads.

The world's first "seismoscope" (predecessor to the seismograph) looked more like an urn than a scientific instrument. But the key hangs at its center: a pendulum. An arm attaches the pendulum to each dragon, which holds a ball in its mouth

The replica below has a cutaway to show mechanics(1/2)🧪⚒️

This is relevant once again ⚒️ but the influx is huge this week and there is no way to keep up. It’s great to see many non-specialists joining to read about Earth science from the experts’ perspective (we try anyway). Message if you want to be a contributor.

Image of round spheres of ice on a beach near dawn or dusk. Photograph by Aleksandr Abrosimov, Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ball Ice is an extremely rare form of ice, first document in Antarctica in 1949. There is no obvious internal structure to ball ice, and the conditions of its formation and growth are largely unknown.

This plant is full of wonders. 🧪🌿🌊🦑❄️

Do you like dinosaurs? How about one hundred?