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Sometimes you just gotta celebrate that you got to lille Lørdag (Wednesday/hump day). Celebrate that you collected some sweet samples the other weekend and they look promising for further analysis.

#thinsectionthursday here’s an (ultra)mylonite with sick delta porphyroclasts and folded monomineralic layers. At the outcrop I thought I was sampling a sheared quartzofeldspathic dyklet but the mineral assemblage says otherwise. Dark layers are full of amph, grt, bt, fsp. 😁😱

Our research group (Structural Geology & Tectonics @ ETH Zurich) is advertising 2 PhD positions to start Summer or Fall 2025-- pass this along if you know of interested applicants! Details & Apply for Project 1: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_… Details & Apply for Project 2: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_… Leif Tokle Claudio Madonna

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Making edits, dreaming about future projects…. and money 💰 🤑 #ECR Njord Univ. of Oslo Universitetet i Oslo

Some photos from Thursday night when the sky lit up. The moon had set and yet the nordlys were so strong that shadows were cast. #aurora #nordlys #jotunheimen

Elements The latest edition of Elements is now available. The theme is Behind and Beyond Luminescence Imaging (October 2024; vol. 20, no. 5) and Guest Editors are Lutz Nasdala, Emmanuel Fritsch, and Jens Götze. elementsmagazine.org

Writing a discussion in my paper (no peeking!🫣) and keeping an eye on the hurricane that’s spinning in my SEM-CL map 😉 #thinsectionthursday #structuralgeology

Woooo geez where has the time gone! It’s already been a year since I posted this ssssspooooooooky garnet corona!! 👻 😱 #thinsectionthursday Now I just need to write a paper about these 🤔

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever

Back in the lab, shooting some quick EDS spots and mosaic maps for EBSD later in the week while I get some scans done on new thin sections! Wooohhooooo

November 4, 1869, first issue of the scientific journal #Nature published, includes an article by Thomas Henry Huxley titled TRIASSIC DINOSAURIA 🗞️🦖 academia.edu/367205/Thomas_…

It might not be #thinsectionthursday but I felt inspired to post some microstructures from a pseudotachylyte from Lofoten, Norway 🇳🇴. Coronas of garnet around foxy biotite and coronas of OPX and garnet around olivine in the damage zone. Plagioclase microlites in the PST vein