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Daniel Pastor-Galán
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Solid Earth hero who finds magnets in rocks. Plate shuffler, rock bender, mantle depleter, zircon hunter. I do lick rocks. Really, really bad geo-puns. Also music. At @igeociencias.bsky.social @CSIC.es
www.danielpastorgalan.eu
⚒️ #geoscience
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wearetektonika.bsky.social
As we are finalising our next editorial to close Tektonika #DOAJ volume 3, we invite you to read or re-read previous ones, starting from 👇

"Tektonika: The Community-Led Diamond Open-Access Journal for Tectonics and Structural Geology" ⚒️

tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
Tektonika: The Community-Led Diamond Open-Access Journal for Tectonics and Structural Geology | τeκτoniκa
tektonika.online
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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planet-terre.bsky.social
Dans les gouffres à fossiles du Quercy
– Documentaire sur les phosphatières du Quercy, “mines” de fossiles. Accessible jusqu’au 29 novembre 2025 sur la plateforme France·TV
#géologie #teamSVT
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L’une des grottes du réseau karstique des phosphatières du Quercy au sein desquelles de nombreux restes de faune fossile du Cénozoïque ont été retrouvés.
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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amnh.org
It's Trilobite Tuesday! The Devonian trilobites that emerge from outcrops aligning Bolivia's sky-high Altiplano plateau, like this Belenopyge, rank among the most difficult-to-obtain trilobites in the world—mostly because they're located more than 11,500 ft (3,505 m) up in the Andes Mountains.
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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geoskinner.games
Calling all Geoscience Gamers! Abstract submission is now open for @egu.eu #EGU26 and the Games for Geoscience session.

Your deadline is 15 Jan 26 and your time starts now!

Details though the link in the comments.
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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igeociencias.bsky.social
Apoyo a la Comparecencia en Defensa de la Geología.
El 18 de noviembre, una representación de organismos, asociaciones y colegios profesionales comparecerá en el Congreso de los Diputados para defender la importancia de la Geología en la sociedad y reclamar su reconocimiento
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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martinhtrauth.bsky.social
The #Python and #MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences books are back in the top 100 at Springer Earth and Environment, the last two editions each. Thank you all for continuing to buy the books, even though they can usually be downloaded from university libraries!

www.springernature.com/de/bookselle...
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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egu.eu
#EGU26 is already on its way 🎉!
Abstract submissions are officially open until 15 January 2026, 13:00 CET.

Let the journey begin and submit your abstract NOW!

👉 Visit https://www.egu26.eu/ for more information!
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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cstark.bsky.social
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fikgm.bsky.social Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · 16d
The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
hotspottrack.bsky.social
🔴URGENT
📄 New Paper alert from my recently graduated student
👨‍🎓 Rafael Guerra Roel

Another bend in the road #Orocline #Geology #Geoscience #OpenAccess
⚒️ 🧪

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Bending the Sierra Madre Oriental: A Paleocene Orocline
The Taraises Fm. preserves pre-, syn-, and post-folding magnetizations linked to Sevier thin-skinned tectonics Paleomagnetism reveals ∼90° counterclockwise rotation in the north and <30° clockwis...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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phaneritic.bsky.social
68” of rain in one day? Whoaaa.
gerardvdschrier.bsky.social Gerard van der Schrier @gerardvdschrier.bsky.social · 18d
The Vietnamese Bach Ma Mountain Peak station recorded one-day rainfall of 1,739 mm - close to the global one-day record and perhaps a new record for the northern hemisphere. It is part of a deluge Viet Nam has seen in October, shattering 35 precip records. e.vnexpress.net/news/news/en...
Vietnam sees 35 rainfall records broken in October - VnExpress International
Vietnam's northern and central regions saw a total of 35 rain records broken in October alone as two storms, Matmo and Fengshen, caused unprecedented downpours.
e.vnexpress.net
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
hotspottrack.bsky.social
🌍 EGU 2025 – TS1.6
Fluid Flow & Rock Interaction Across Scales
From grains to plates—explore how fluids shape Earth’s crust!
📅 Deadline: 15 Jan
✅ Don’t let your ideas stay in the lab—submit your abstract now!
🔗 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
hotspottrack.bsky.social
Totally for Chris option. I really appreciate the figure itself alone so I can have them on the table while I review te text.
seismatters.bsky.social Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 21d
Hard pass.

For me, being old, I like hard copy for reviewing, so I really value being able to have printouts of the figures *next* to the text. This is obviously most crucial for figure cited *multiple times* in the text…

#ShotsFired
watershedlab.bsky.social Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Sep 24
I’m ready for a fight: figures belong in-line in manuscripts for peer review. No exceptions.
November 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
hotspottrack.bsky.social
My domain .com will die in a month. I am not renewing it. My webpage will be stored uniquely in its current .eu domain from December.
I give you some field photos to make the day better
#geosciences ⚒️
Photo from Los Barrios de Luna Dam. A minor fault can be seen thanks to the low water level. Fold. Idiot marking the axial plane.
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Continents

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Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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taynappe.bsky.social
It must be #FridayFold ⚒️ time!
Carboniferous Crackington Formation at Hartland Quay, Devon, UK (similar to Millook Haven further south along the coast, but upright here)
Steeply-dipping strata on both limbs of a tight upright antiform on the LHS of the piccie. Dunno about RHS, is there a synform there or is it faulted? Waves crash below onto stony beach.
October 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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dandplorton.bsky.social
3/3
Uniqueness means more than rarity.
Cera blends scientific value, emotional resonance, and visual impact.
It’s the kind of object that sparks curiosity. Want to learn more? Cera isn’t in a museum (yet), but her brethren are. #FossilFriday #VisitAMusuem
October 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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geologyjohnson.bsky.social
The structure and detail in these Archean microbial mats from South Africa are fantastic. I could look at these all day. Deets in the alt text. #Geology #Paleontology
Photo of a grey green rock with undulose and wrinkled layers of black organic matter that looks like tangled noodles. The grey green material is quartz and clay. There are also yellow titanite crystals within the organic matter. Scale bars show the image is 0.8 mm across.
October 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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cambriancam.bsky.social
Happy National Fossil Day! And happy Birthday to my mom. The one who encouraged me to stay curious and to never give up on my dreams. ❤️ ⚒️ 🪨 🎉
October 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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infoshymkent.bsky.social
🏞️ Today, we start the morning with a fabulous view over the Tortkara Lake - one of the Sibe Lakes - in eastern #Kazakhstan.

We wish you a wonderful Tuesday. 🤗

#EastCoastKin #Cairns #Rocks #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday #LandscapePhotography #Hiking #CentralAsia #RockinTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue
October 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
hotspottrack.bsky.social
I have reviewed a paper for Open Research Europe. It really looked like a great idea: Open review, discussion etc. I reviewed without reading any of the reviews first and then check the reviews. To my despair: completely inefficient. #academicChatter #Geoscience #Science 👇
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
hotspottrack.bsky.social
Fieldwork is over. No worries we still have pics of great outcrops.

@formovfluid.bsky.social #Geoscience ⚒️
October 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
hotspottrack.bsky.social
First day of field sampling with the @formovfluid.bsky.social team
⚒️ #Geoscience
September 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
hotspottrack.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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earthsciweek.bsky.social
Did you know New Mexico had beach-front property 75 million years ago? 🏝️⛱️🌊

That’s right! This #rock from Chaco Culture National Historical Park contains ripples & a clam #fossil — it must have formed on a #beach!

Explore the #3Dmodel — bit.ly/clams-ripples-chaco

#FossilFriday #NPS #Paleontology
September 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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danielhernbar.bsky.social
4 años de un hito histórico que vino acompañado con 4 palabras que son casi igualmente históricas: «hay tiempo pa comer». 4 años del inicio de la erupción del #Tajogaite —1ª erupción subaérea en #Canarias desde 1971—, perfecto para contaros algunas anécdotas de aquellos locos días de 2021. Va hilo.
September 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM