“Most News Outlets Are Only Showing The Blurry Zoomed In Picture Of The Black Hole So I’m Posting

Carboniferous flora impressions and casts from around Bukówka Lake near Lubawka. There are mostly Equisetales and Lepidodendrales to find here. Haven’t spotted any fern-like things so far.

Running the FRANTZ to magnetically separate the garnet from my sample, all the stuff falling out is the less magnetic amphibole. For anyone curious I’m dating the Syros monolith

I miss doing microscope work. Can we make a thread of our favourite thin section? This is mine

Actinolite Schist

the fact that we can map sedimentary units from space is really cool and also Mars is cool!

Wind-induced ripple bedform  with an obstacle (grass at the center) that resulted in shadow-like impressions by flow disturbance.  Wind direction from lower left to upper right.  On the coastal dunes along the shore of Niigata city.

風による堆積物の模様と草の障害物による流れの乱れの痕跡

Love me some rocks

“nothing to see here.” - The Field Museum of Natural History

museums are giving us quality quarantine content

Astronaut readjusts to life back on Earth

> Don’t give him a baby for a while.

art by Serena Malyon 

“Erebor – A3, watercolour and gouache. My depiction of The Lonely Mountain (Erebor), from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Deep within the dwarven keep lies Smaug the dragon, perched upon his hoard of treasures. The smell of someone unfamiliar rouses him from sleep, but Bilbo stays hidden, watching.

Rivendell – A3, watercolour and acryla gouache. My depiction of Rivendell from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.”

The Allende meteorite

The Allende Meteorite is the largest of its kind ever found on Earth. It is often referred to as the most widely studied meteorite in history. The fall of this meteorite was viewed in Chihuahua, Mexico in the early hours of February 8th, 1969.

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