New video! Exploring the fossil trees at Joggins ⚒️ youtu.be/w_0oGQDq-r0?...
Geological Explorations at Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Nova Scotia
YouTube video by Callan Bentley
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Callan Bentley
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"bluebirds, bluegrass, blueschist, blue state, bluesky" Community college geology professor in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Satellite imagery from Planet, Airbus, and Umbra shows construction in Big Bend National Park, despite administration claims: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100... by Christoph Koettl et al., @nytimes.com
Video: Satellite Images Contradict Border Agency on Construction in Big Bend
Customs and Border Protection claimed that construction on a border security project in Big Bend National Park in Texas was limited to “survey and design” work. Visual Investigations’ satellite specia...
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Hey @mineralcup.bsky.social - You get a shout out on p. 23 ⚒️
Geoscientist magazine@geoscientistmag.bsky.social · yesterdayGeoscientist's new issue is out now! Its highlights include: 🌍 The mystery of Earth’s missing lead 🏘️ How ground conditions shape social outcomes 🎨 James Hutton’s influence on creativity 👷♀️ Unconventional geoscience careers 🌱 Why geodiversity matters to society Read the issue: geoscientist.online
Ominous for the this El Nino...Will be possibly the strongest one anyone alive has seen.
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · yesterdayAfter a nearly month-long plateau Nino3.4 region temperatures (ONI) are on their way back up. We've now surpassed 1982/1983 and are only behind 2015/2016 in terms of maximum daily values. And its only early September.
It has been a while, but I have a summary of all the activity at Anak Krakatau over the last few days. Long and short: big explosive eruption, but not out of character for the volcano (or Indonesian volcanoes for that matter). It is a hot air travel mess, though: eruptions.site/2026/09/07/s...
September 2026 Eruption at Anak Krakatau
Location: Anak Krakatau, Indonesia Situation: Anak Krakatau, literally “child of Krakatau” has had some large explosive eruptions over the past week including ash plumes that reached ~5…
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Close up of the heron's face. He was hot, flapping his gular pouch with beak agape. 🪶
It's one of the classic stories of biogeography, in textbooks: Ratite birds stopped flying, were trapped on Gondwana, and along for the ride as the supercontinent split. Hence ostriches, emus etc. live in different places today Or maybe not? @callanbentley.bsky.social youtu.be/ZU603DQbgVE?...
Does ratite bird evolution tell the story of Gondwana's breakup?
YouTube video by Callan Bentley
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New video! Wherein @stevebrusatte.bsky.social & I talk about the evolution of ratites & other flightless #birds, and how the classic idea they faithfully record Gondwanan breakup cannot be true! youtu.be/ZU603DQbgVE ⚒️🪶
Does ratite bird evolution tell the story of Gondwana's breakup?
YouTube video by Callan Bentley
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Hellbender (giant salamander) nesting season is in full swing! Having a blast working with this research team to understand the connections between water quality + hellbender behavior, nest success, & population dynamics to inform the conservation of declining populations. #BioGeoBender #PACSP💧🧪🌎
Lapilli raining down on an Indonesian fishing boat ⚒️
Johanns (Alpen) weer@johannsalpenweer.bsky.social · 4d agoUitbarsting #Krakatau: de video van een vissersbootje op een steenworp afstand van de vulkaan terwijl het te maken heeft met een dikke uitval van as en #lapilli. In de laatste 10 seconden is ook de uitbarstingskolom te zien die wordt geproduceerd door de explosieve activiteit.
During the ongoing eruption of #Krakatau in Indonesia, 10-minute JMA Himawari-9 True Color RGB images today showed a broad lower-altitude area of volcanic ash (shades of brown) along with pulses of higher-altitude volcanic clouds (a mixture of water vapor, ash and SO2).
Cville people: I'm co-leading a First Saturday birding walk at Ivy Creek Natural Area this morning, 7:30am start. We have binoculars to loan out. Join us! 🪶
Birder K@birderk.bsky.social · 4d agoLET THERE BE BIRDS! #birds #fall #migration
Geotweeps, do you want a brief cameo in an upcoming subduction related video? If so: send me a short cell phone movie clip (landscape orientation, not "portrait") of you doing the "subduction" arm movements with your hand. No explanation, just 3 seconds of the "one arm goes under the other" motion.
Wonderful world of cephalopod evolution in deep time... " Here we provide an overview of some exciting fields in cephalopod research, where (in our biased opinion) the most impressive advances have been made." 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It's another H O T one, Charlottesville. 🥵 ...But the good news is that both the temperature and the heat index are forecast to drop over the long weekend.
New video! One single outcrop that tells *exactly* when the Gulf of California flooded in, separating Baja from mainland Mexico. youtu.be/xpR1D4geyro ⚒️
Pinning down the date of the flooding of the Gulf of California: Arroyo Infierno, Baja
YouTube video by Callan Bentley
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Biggánjárga tilite! About 635 million year-old till unit on top of a striated quartzite 🤯 It was a good day in the field. #snowballearth
It looks like both @cintylee.bsky.social & @katharinehayhoe.com are getting big recognition this year at the GSA annual meeting! Congratulations!!! 🎉 p. 21 of the new issue of GSA Today: @geosociety.bsky.social cdn.sanity.io/files/02ocqo... ⚒️
I cleaned up the smaller specimen of rock that I collected in this hike over the summer in the Gallatin Range of Montana. Now it joins my teaching collection. ⚒️
Callan Bentley@callanbentley.bsky.social · 2mo agoHiked up Sourdough Canyon south of Bozeman, in the Gallatin Range, to view this amazing garnet-bearing amphibolite. ⚒️
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
SpacePrez@spaceprez.bsky.social · last wk.The polls are super bad for Trump so he's definitely going to try to cheat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
New video! Crystallized honey, latent heat, & the core of our planet youtu.be/9B3YZCsy_dk ⚒️
Kitchen Geology episode 1: "Sweet Honey in the Inner Core"
YouTube video by Callan Bentley
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I'm looking forward to premiering a new video later this morning... the first episode of the KITCHEN GEOLOGY series ⚒️
#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 1: It's carbonate-vs-carbonate with copper-rich #Azurite against zinc-rich #Smithsonite. Which has your vote? VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
I'm seeking to fill a #PhD position in my #structuralgeology group @uni-jena.de on deep #geothermal resources in central Germany. The post is ideal for #geoscience students with interest in brittle deformation, #tectonic stress analysis and #fieldwork. jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/4...
