A collage of nature, including a green snake, a songbird, a yellow flower, an iridescent beetle, a clownfish, and a frog on a lilypad.
Nature is everywhere, even in the busiest cities. From April 24–27, over 100k people around the world will step outside & photograph the wild nature around them for the #CityNatureChallenge — the largest annual community science event. 🧵⤵️
If you tell me where you are, I may even tell the species
The spider is of the genus trichonephila, in case you wanted to know ☺️
Yellow tan and dark gray banded sedimentary rock with fingers for scale. All kinds of smaller scale textures (burrows, etc.) cut and augment the 1-15 mm thick layers.
Beautiful bedded/laminated and bioturbated limestone (gray) + dolostone (yellow) in the Great Valley near Inwood, West Virginia. ⚒️
I have found this reference:
Apparently it is some sort of carbonate breccia that was used in Imperial Rome in Central Italy but it is very rare and its provenance is unknown
www.isprambiente.gov.it/it/attivita/...
Also:
www.chimica404.it/il-giallo-ti...
No but I can browse for it in Italian
Green lumpy rock with anastomosing foliation. Pencil for scale.
Green lumpy rock with anastomosing foliation. Pencil for scale.
Green lumpy rock with anastomosing foliation. Pencil for scale.
Juggling far too many things. Feeling as sheared out as these Angel Island serpentinites. ⚒️
Should be Araneus sp.
There are blueschists, but they happen to be in the ZF hanging wall, so their exhumation is much older history. In a 2021 paper we proposed exhumation in an extrusion wedge setting around 20 Ma or so. The ZF is 5-6 Ma old and slipped at very shallow crustal levels crosscutting exhumed metamorphics!
When the paper will be available online, there will also be this figure showing the ages of all rocks in the area. "older". The oldest stuff here is around 7 Ma :)
Short take home message.
"No major exhumation recorded by the Zuccale Fault"
Every model proposed to explain the fault should take this into account.
recap figure of the manucript
"Dear Dr. Samuele Papeschi,
We are delighted to inform you that your manuscript titled "P-T modeling constrains the depth of emplacement of the Porto Azzurro Pluton and implies minor exhumation caused by the Zuccale Fault (Island of Elba, Italy)", has been accepted for publication in JMG."
A stormbeach stone stuffed with Goniatite fossils. Remnants of a distant time when their shells littered the sea floor.
County Clare, Ireland.
Cormacscoast.com walking tours
a SEM image showing minerals in thin section
A fleet of TIE fighters released by a mighty star destroyer
OR
Tiny diopside grains associated with vesuvianite in calcilicate rock?
⚒️ #geology #starwars
minerals in thin section
Silence please - reaction in progress
The thin grey rim around white mica is chlorite, which was likely overgrowing white mica due to the release of Mg from dolomite in this contact metamorphosed marble.
⚒️ #geology #minerals
Banded iron in a cut and polished side roughly 6” long in a vertical orientation compared to image.
Help geo/paleo hive mind! A student asked how much time is represented in a band of a banded iron formation and not only am I clueless, but my Google Scholar search didn’t yield a clear answer.
Tilted high contrast sedimentary rock layers displaced along a central crumbly zone, top downhill to the left
Tilted high contrast sedimentary rock layers displaced along a central crumbly zone, top downhill to the left, annotated with arrows
Lovely low angle normal fault in Devil's Slide turbidites. ⚒️
ladybug moving on a leaf
Walking on thin air...
Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata (22-Spot Ladybird)
🐞 #insects #insectphotography #ladybug
mottled stink bug resting on a leaf
Rhaphigaster nebulosa (Mottled Stink Bug)
🪲 #insects #insectphotography #pentatomidae
A Canon EOS R100 equipped with a RF-S 18-150mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM lens
beetle feeding on a daisy
I love my new camera.
Chrysomela populi (Poplar Leaf Beetle)
🪲 #insects #insectphotography
the side eye of a seagull
I see you!
I have a new camera for field photography and I am not afraid to use it!
Close-up photographs of a naturally green harvestman (Algidia viridata ssp. bicolor) with a bumpy, textured body that resembles moss or algae. The arachnid's long spiny legs and bumpy body are shown from multiple angles against a blurred green background.
Close-up photographs of a naturally green harvestman (Algidia viridata ssp. bicolor) with a bumpy, textured body that resembles moss or algae. The arachnid's long spiny legs and bumpy body are shown from multiple angles against a blurred green background.
Close-up photographs of a naturally green harvestman (Algidia viridata ssp. bicolor) with a bumpy, textured body that resembles moss or algae. The arachnid's long spiny legs and bumpy body are shown from multiple angles against a blurred green background.
Close-up photographs of a naturally green harvestman (Algidia viridata ssp. bicolor) with a bumpy, textured body that resembles moss or algae. The arachnid's long spiny legs and bumpy body are shown from multiple angles against a blurred green background.
Never miss a chance to get face-to-face with a harvestman.
This is the stunning subspecies Algidia viridata ssp. bicolor, endemic to New Zealand!
Rock in thin section
Superman!
...according to normal people.
An S-shaped quartzite clast in a cataclasite, according to geologists.
FOV 3 mm
⚒️ #geology
mylonitic marble
They look like experimentally deformed samples, but they actually are natural samples!
Felciaio Shear Zone, Island of Elba
⚒️ #TectonicsTuesday #geology
A family of splitgill mushrooms grow from the bottom of an upturned turn like a cluster of fireworks exploding above the young spring growth of the forest floor. All photos by me
Here are some nice mushrooms
