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When you have SEM time the next day, unpolished mounts, and the workshop is closed...

Snowflake or spinel? Some beautiful experimental crystals for #ThinSectionThursday.

8 weeks of cetacean surveys and public education in the Bay of Biscay have come to an end…read about my last few weeks at sea here orcaweb.org.uk/our-work-orca-…

Top class week in Trieste for fo2schooltrieste! Thanks to @pyroclastic_kat for the aesthetic support and Aperol Spritz Italia for existing.

Decent haul of edibles today! Common puffball, oak milkcap and the infamous porchini (although a bit past it's best...)

An unhappy olivine from Tajogaite, La Palma for #ThinSectionThursday

Spotted some lovely tension gashes and conjugate faults on the way to the crag this weekend. I seemed to be the only person worried about climbing on greenschist with a sub vertical foliation, however 😬

Stochiometric estimates of ferric iron from EPMA data can be just as precise as Mössbauer measurements?! - doi.org/10.31223/X5CT03 There's a lot of ferric iron in magmatic clinopyroxene and we might be able to use it as an oxybarometer?! -doi.org/10.31223/X5N959 Who knew...

Hunting for goodies in Iceland a couple of weeks ago. Here are some beaut gabbroic nodules in a basalt from Miðfell. Tell us how the mush works 🌋🔬

Everything in one plot. Very cool paper by Lineweaver & Patel that discusses mass, time and objects in the Universe. Have a read at doi.org/10.1119/5.0150…