New mineral alert! My first new mineral, wildcatite, is officially published - a calcium iron tellurate hydroxide, CaFeTeO5(OH). It is named for the small gold prospect in which it was found, Wildcat prospect in Utah, USA, which I visited in 2018. doi.org/10.3749/canmin… (1/7)

Really excited to share the The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand article on #volcanic #filters in #ocean #island #hotspot #volcanoes 🌋 Great #scicomm experience with Michael Hopkin !!🤗 theconversation.com/there-she-blow… #UQmagmateam UQ News @UQ_sees SRAP-IEAP Science & Technology Australia geosociety IAVCEI_VIPSCommission Women in Earth & Environmental Science Australasia

Olivine crystals (rounded and fragmented) and garnet (isotropic at XPL) with reaction rim set in a dark groundmass composed by carbonates. kimberlite from Udachnaya-East, Sakha-Yakutia (Russia). XPL and PPL image, 2x (Fov = 7mm) #thinsctionThursday #kimberlite #alexstrekeisen

Check out my new paper in Tectonophysics, integrating EBSD and volatile/trace element geochemistry of cratonic xenoliths impacted by flat slab subduction. Aside from the geology story, we really milked these EBSD datasets for every drop of new data! authors.elsevier.com/a/1dlsp98wdwBfh

📢📢Mongolian landscapes for #FieldworkFriday where🎙#GneissChats guest Dr Marissa Betts Marissa J Betts from LLUNE studied the Biostratigraphy of these spectacular Cambrian rocks. Want to know more? Listen to her chat with vitorbarrote 🤩🐚 🎧🎧Tune-in on your fav #pod platform

Day 55: A mylonitic granite. I wonder if the rectangular porphyroclasts started as a longer leucocratic layer that boudinaged into pieces…? Or can rectangular porphyroclasts from naturally from granitic phenocrysts? Any ideas? #100daysofgeoscience

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The amazing Dr Melanie Finch of Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 features in the latest episode of Avid Research. Make sure you check it out!

Why have Geoscience Australia only detected 10 aftershocks for yesterday’s ML5.8 earthquake when @AusQuake recorded >50 in the first hour alone? It has to do with seismograph density. GA’s network is designed to pick up earthquakes >M3.5 across Aus; sites are typically 300 km apart 1/2

Day 61: Foliated eclogite facies metagranodiorite (white-grey) cut by undeformed andesite dykes with plagioclase phenocrysts and chilled margins, from Valle d'Aosta, Sesia Zone, Italy. #100daysofgeoscience

🤩🤩Classy, elegant, and colourful! This #FieldWorkFriday is #eclogite, somewhere in the famous 🇮🇹#SesiaLanzo zone. 🎙If you love HP rocks tune-in and listen to a recent #GneissChats episode with Dr Chapel from LLUNE on HP rocks. 🎧🎧travelinggeologist.com/podcast/hp/

Day 62: S-C-C' fabric in a serpentinite from Rocca Canavese, Turin, Italy. Anisotropic rocks make the best fabrics 🤩 #100daysofgeoscience

What we know about the ML5.8 Woods Point Vic. earthquake felt across southeast Australia this week. With help from Dr. Tamarah King & Elodie Borleis - all-women authorship! 🙌 We will know more about this event from new data expected in the coming days. #WomenInSTEM temblor.net/earthquake-ins…

Multi-tasking at its best… looking at the fate of tellurium in contaminated soils using the European synchrotron in Grenoble, keeping in touch with footy, all from the safety of our lockdown in Melbourne! Makes for interesting logbook… Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 European Synchrotron

elifesciences.org/articles/54097 a survey for early-career researchers aimed at bringing transparency to the academic job market: "The 317 respondents submitted a total of 7644 job applications in the 2018–2019 application cycle, with a median of 15 applications per respondent" !!!

Metasedimentary xenoliths in a tonality magma. Evidence of wall rock assimilation. #geology

LiCSAR InSAR data for Mw5.8 earthquake. 38 km S of Mount Buller, Australia. 2021-09-21 23:15:53UTC. comet.nerc.ac.uk/earthquakes/us… #Earthquake #Sentinel1 #COMET

After a few days of remote beamtime with Joel Brugger at European Synchrotron, starting to see ghosts in my XRF maps! 🤣🤣

Sarah Jones is our next speaker for GSA GOLD on Tue 5 Oct Presentation: Granite-up, greenstone-down tectonics in the Eastern Goldfields, WA, & implications for early gold mineralisation. For registration, abstract, bio and times go to: eventbrite.com.au/e/gsa-gold-gsa… #GSAGOLD #Geology

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