First refreshing showers after the long canicule in Orleans ⛲😌
Samuele Papeschi サムエレ パペスキ | Geology is the way ⚒️🧪
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Geologist, blogger, and traveler, almost always in couple ❤️ 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 Lived in 四国 🎎 and will miss it forever. I post rocks as a stress relief ⚒️ My geology website: https://geologyistheway.com
This is probably the most beautiful listvenite I have ever seen in my entire life. From the metasomatized Thetford ophiolite, next to the contact with granodiorite ⚒️ #geology #serpentinite #ultramaficrocks
A typical euhedral crystal of hornblende in the wall cladding of the Daisen Museum of Nature and History.
If somebody from Canada wants to help me find Argiope aurantia while I am here, they would make me the happiest man on Earth :)
Landing in Montreal, Canada
Just flew over Mt St Helens but unfortunately it was hidden by the clouds. At least I got a good view of Mt Rainier!
For #FridayFold I would like to bring to your attention some folded quartz + carpholite veins in Permian metasandstones. Canaloni - Farma stream Monticiano-Roccastrada, Italy ⚒️ #geology
See the green guy? That is a pretty spinel in a cool rock, a felsic granulite from the ophiolites of Liguria, Italy What's a granulite doing within ophiolites? Well, I am sorry to clickbait you but I finished the space, so the answer is in the following post. ⚒️ #geology #ThinSectionThursday
Written on the walls of the Department of Earth Sciences in Pisa, Italy. It can be translated as "when the time comes, the one who knows will know, and the one who doesn't will damage himself" Francesco Homisi (1620)
Albite crystals with internal foliation patterns defined by tiny graphite inclusions in a schist from Gorgona Island, Italy. FOV 3 mm "Ciao Gianni. Grazie per avermi portato a Gorgona" ⚒️ #geology
Nice isoclinal folds in marbles from the Island of Gorgona, Italy. This place is a prison where you need a permit to go and another special permit to shot photos, so please enjoy something that's really hard to photograph 😘 ⚒️ #geology
#ThinSectionThursday Round olivine crystals, completely transformed to serpentine with the typical 'mesh texture', surrounded by altered calcic plagioclase in a troctolite (an olivine-rich gabbroic rock). Width: 3 mm CPL Mattarana Quarry, Sestri Levante, Liguria, Italy
Hiked up Sourdough Canyon south of Bozeman, in the Gallatin Range, to view this amazing garnet-bearing amphibolite. ⚒️
P.O.V. You are a bee and you are landing on this flower
⚒️ 🧪 A catastrophic earthquake just struck northern Venezuela. Large buildings have collapsed, and the USGS PAGER is forecasting thousands of fatalities. Our colleague in Caracas, Dr. Frank Audemard, has shared with us what the earthquake felt like and footage from the region. Here’s what we know.
Catastrophic M7.5 earthquake strikes northern Venezuela
Severe damage; collapsed buildings; significant fatalities possible
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I love this view of the relatively thin interval of red beds barely exposed in a sea of Triassic dolomite. Contrast! 🤌⚒️
I recently had the opportunity to partecipate to this research I am really glad to share here. Ambient Noise Tomography at the scale of the Tuscan region (TEMPEST) revealed the existence of huge reservoirs of magma below active geothermal fields #geology #geophysics ⚒️ www.nature.com/articles/s43...
1/2 Today my first (and only) spider paper was accepted! By browsing thousands of Argiope spider observations from India, we found that Argiope undulata is a species completely distinct from A. pulchella and was, thus, resurrected! 🥳 Link to the article: rdcu.be/fn7V4
Back to bsky again with a new job and more time to enjoy it ☺️
Good news, everyone! I have moved out of Italy (again) and accepted a position at VEMA Hydrogen. I will be working on Engineered Mineral Hydrogen in France from now on 💪
Professor Farnsworth: Good News, Everyone!
Alt: Professor Farnsworth: Good News, Everyone!
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Hornblende in "Kuro-Kurama" - diorite or gabbro from Kurama, Kyoto, Japan. FOV=ca.2 mm #thinsection #petrology #petrography #polarizingmicoscope
My PhD advisor, colleague, and friend, Giovanni (Gianni) Musumeci passed away prematurely this week. Gianni dedicated his life to the study of the crystalline basements of Sardinia and the Tuscan Archipelago. It is thanks to him that I chose this path. Ciao Gianni, grazie di tutto
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. 🧵⤵️
