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This experimental cell highlighted by Stuart Gilfillan is simple to construct, transparent enough for lab microCT instruments, and enables experimental durations of weeks to months, which are not feasible for studies at synchrotron tomography beamlines. School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh

Humbling to read such favourable commentary on our latest @nature paper in today's Science Magazine, written by the remarkably talented Hannah Richter: Waves rippling under continents could explain mysterious plateaus around the world | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Congrats Elias Rugen and colleagues on this excellent work 🌍 ❄️

Snowball Earth described an ice age that engulfed the entire planet. New research shows that the best geological record of the lead up is in the Inner Hebrides in Scotland. 1/3 bbc.com/news/articles/…

Scotland is likely to be awarded one of the biggest accolades in science: the “golden spike”, which is an actual spike hammered in to a planet transformation location. (But it’s not golden to discourage theft!). bbc.com/news/articles/…

Good to see the garvellachs, snowball earth and the golden carrot in the news bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… doi.org/10.1144/jgs202… theguardian.com/science/articl…

So much of this article is exciting! Moving continents! Tropical climates! Snowball Earth! All in rocks in an uninhabited island off Scotland! Love it! 🌍 Scottish Isles hold key to mystery of Snowball Earth - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A rock formation spanning Ireland and Scotland is a rare record of “snowball Earth”, a crucial moment in planetary history when the globe was covered in ice, finds a new study led by PhD candidate Elias Rugen and Prof Graham Shields EarthSciences UCL UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/aug/…

Amazing new research on #ScottishGeology on the Garvellachs gives us unique information about Snowball Earth! They may be the best place on earth to study this event, which happened 720 million years ago. The islands could be in line for a golden spike! (Note: not actual gold 😄)

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New paper alert 🚨 Happy to share our latest paper just published in EPSL! In this study, we investigate the origins and formation mechanisms of chondrules — molten droplets that formed when our young Sun was surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Come and and do a fully-funded PhD with us at OceanEarthUniSoton! Please share widely and feel free to get in touch with any questions about this really exciting project. southampton.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

Press release from UW News about recent work by me and David Catling where we studied cap carbonates and the aftermath of the last "Snowball Earth" event 🌎 washington.edu/news/2024/09/1…

Check out our new paper here! Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich

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Unearthed | Unlocking the secrets of Snowball Earth Elias Rugen discusses how a cluster of remote Scottish islands could be key to understanding the tipping point that descended Earth into a 60-million-year-long glaciation: geoscientist.online/sections/unear…