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gotta love when a subway station looks like it’s from the cretaceous period

Come and work with us at University of Tasmania CODES - Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences! We are advertising an Associate Professor (level D) position for someone with expertise in Economic Geology, Geochemistry and/or Geodata Science. Please retweet! careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/5006…

Geology x Stamps 😍 South West Africa Rock Formations, released in 1986.

New paper in AustralianGeographer investigating the barriers and enablers for studying #geography at higher levels in schools. Insights from teachers help frame strategies to help improve access to geography in schools as pathway to universities. University of Tasmania Institute of Australian Geographers tinyurl.com/2vb4bdbc

My Greek heritage means I’m keeping a close eye the Anydros-Santorini earthquakes. I teamed up with my long-time colleague and friend Konstantinos Michailos ANU Earth Sciences 🌏 to write this for The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Seismology Research Centre Monash Science Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 theconversation.com/an-earthquake-…

Huge red #Fluorite crystal with "paper" #Calcite from Huanggangliang Mine, Inner Mongolia, China. #minerals #crystals #mineralcollecting #mineralexpert #rockhounding #mineralogy

Protein engineering mfers will be like “see it works like this” and then show you the most broken slinky ass looking pile of random squiggles ever to appear in a scientific figure

Spodumene, a Lithium pyroxene. One of the key lithium ores. This is a fragment of one very large crystal.

A quick update on the #elementsets - we now (finally!) have a suite of class plans and related resources specially written for using the sets in the classroom. These are available on the website (elementsets.net), and are free to download and use however you like. #ozchem

Wardite (Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil)

New paper led by PhD student Alfredtina Appiah from CODES University of Tasmania on geometallurgical characerisation of magnesite ore - a key ore of critical metal magnesium. We domain ore at Prospect Ridge into three types using a variety of analytical techniques. mdpi.com/2075-163X/15/3…

Earth science is critical to national resilience – so why is it being gutted? timeshighereducation.com/opinion/earth-… via Times Higher Education

#ThinSectionThursday Experimental synthesis of REE-apatite and britholite in silicate glass by an Honours student here at ANU Earth Sciences 🌏. Apatite is bright pink, glass is mildly pink, and britholite is almost not luminescent at all.

The selenium hyperaccumulator Stanleya pinnata and Astragalus bisulcatus are in full bloom in our glasshouses at Wageningen University. Weird combination of odours: the sweet floral scent mixed with foul-smelling dimethyldiselenide.

Gemmy twinned #Diaspore (variety #Sultanite) crystals from Mugla, Milas Province, Turkey. #minerals #crystals #mineralcollecting #mineralexpert #rockhounding #mineralogy

Zircanis, a new enigmatic living mineral species from the Adamello Batholith 🪨🐕 Credits: Silvia Favaro (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) 📷 Plinius 50/24 photo contest #MineralMonday

power of crystallography - first time I can remember seeing Pa in a structural formula!

New paper alert, led by University of Tasmania Chem PhD student Jia Jia Seet! 🚨 In this study, we use an electrokinetic extraction system to extract copper (II) from a range of Cu(II)-bearing samples including silica sand doped with Cu(II) and Tasmanian mine tailings. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#ThinSectionThursday qeltite marked in pink, together with some gehlenite, wollastonite, nagelschmidtite, magnetite, and kalsilite. What is qeltite? Good question! See link in reply for the story.

New paper: we discovered a new way for magmas to crystallise (!), and it also made one of the largest known carbonatite REE deposits. Out now in Nature Communications: doi.org/10.1038/s41467… #geology @scienceanu ANU Earth Sciences 🌏