After a run of dextral it’s time for sinistral. Garnet with a corona of fine-grained omphacitic diopside in a plagioclase that’s being replaced by zoisite and kyanite. From Holsnøy in Bergen Arcs. #ThinSectionThursday

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A new PR paper by Dan Brennan on rocks from NW USA supporting the idea that, 1.6–1.4 billion years ago, Australia sat next to western N. America. For the next 50 days it's free to download from: authors.elsevier.com/c/1eNiC14fdGwW… Dan drafts delicious figures... #geology #tectonics

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Woohooo! Ph Done 😁😁!! The relief after the culmination of an incredible journey!!

New paper alert! Our investigations into the origin of magmatic and tectonic fabrics in a felsic pluton from eastern India has been published in Geological Magazine. The full paper is now online at doi.org/10.1017/S00167… Zoja Vukmanovic Saibal Gupta

Ever wondered how Earth's continents were formed? 🌎 New Curtin University research has provided the strongest evidence yet that #continents were formed by giant #meteorite impacts that occurred during the very beginning of our planet's history. bit.ly/3BXbDkQ Tim E Johnson

Congrats to Dr. Asmita Maitra, Research Scholar who completed her PhD under Prof Saibal Gupta #Geology & #Geophysics IIT Kharagpur🇮🇳 awarded the Post-doctoral Fellowship under Newton International Fellowship 2022 scheme by the The Royal Society UK Ministry of Education Dharmendra Pradhan Dr. Subhas Sarkar

Our take on where to look for life on Mars... as always, Earth holds the key! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

Spectroscopic Studies on the Puga Hot Spring Deposits, Ladakh, an Astrobiological Martian Analog Site in India doi.org/10.1029/2022JE… instruments equivalent to those deployed on Martian rovers identified sodium borate, hydrous sulfates, and opaline silica in hot springs deposits

Trapped in the Traps #geology #fieldwork #deccan

field work in the Deccan Traps, with Saibal Gupta and Ritwick Sen

Rahul Gandhi is not the first Parliamentarian in India who got disqualified after Conviction. Are Gandhi's above Indian constitution?? • Rahul Gandhi (Congress) - 2023. • J. Jayalalithaa (AIADMK) - 2017. • Kamal Kishore Bhagat (All Jharkhand Students Union) - 2015. •

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New paper in Nature Geoscience 🌍 🌙 ☀️ Pull of the moon and push of the sun became balanced in Earth’s past such that the tidal resonance stalled day length at 19 hours for 1 billion years…interestingly during the “boring billion” nature.com/articles/s4156…

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Our latest work, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, that documents the Wolf crater complex on the Moon as a silicic volcanic caldera. doi.org/10.1029/2023JE… #lpsc