Ian L
@iancymro.bsky.social
Chartered Geologist, 🏴, L2 rugby coach, L3 PT, athletics coach. Cardiff University Alumni. Just trying to make the world a better place.
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🎓 Got a PhD opportunity to share? 🌍
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#PhDOpportunity #Palaeontology #Research #Academia
We’d love to help spread the word! 💬
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October 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🎓 Got a PhD opportunity to share? 🌍
We’d love to help spread the word! 💬
If you have an available PhD position in palaeontology or a related field, you can post it directly on our website using the link below: 👇
🔗 palass.org/form/webform...
#PhDOpportunity #Palaeontology #Research #Academia
We’d love to help spread the word! 💬
If you have an available PhD position in palaeontology or a related field, you can post it directly on our website using the link below: 👇
🔗 palass.org/form/webform...
#PhDOpportunity #Palaeontology #Research #Academia
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Thoroughly enjoying checking out the spectacular folded and overturned Carboniferous-aged turbidities near Millook Haven on the NE Cornish coast.
Lovely sedimentary structures - graded bedding, slumps, load casts, flutes, all subsequently squeezed into tight chevron folds ::chef’s kiss::
⚒️🧪🌍
Lovely sedimentary structures - graded bedding, slumps, load casts, flutes, all subsequently squeezed into tight chevron folds ::chef’s kiss::
⚒️🧪🌍
October 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Thoroughly enjoying checking out the spectacular folded and overturned Carboniferous-aged turbidities near Millook Haven on the NE Cornish coast.
Lovely sedimentary structures - graded bedding, slumps, load casts, flutes, all subsequently squeezed into tight chevron folds ::chef’s kiss::
⚒️🧪🌍
Lovely sedimentary structures - graded bedding, slumps, load casts, flutes, all subsequently squeezed into tight chevron folds ::chef’s kiss::
⚒️🧪🌍
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Mmmmm, chrysotile.
Why do the useful minerals have to be so deadly?
Why do the useful minerals have to be so deadly?
August 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Mmmmm, chrysotile.
Why do the useful minerals have to be so deadly?
Why do the useful minerals have to be so deadly?
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A little stromatolite buddy to help get your day started:
Proterozoic Crystal Springs Formation, California. ⚒️
Proterozoic Crystal Springs Formation, California. ⚒️
August 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A little stromatolite buddy to help get your day started:
Proterozoic Crystal Springs Formation, California. ⚒️
Proterozoic Crystal Springs Formation, California. ⚒️
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These absolutely brilliant colouring sheets are part of the art activities at next weekends @dinoconuk.bsky.social found in our creative space to relax, inspire, or chill out. Thanks to incredible @saralutra.bsky.social and the ever lovely @gaffamondo.bsky.social 🏴☠️🖤🦖
August 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
These absolutely brilliant colouring sheets are part of the art activities at next weekends @dinoconuk.bsky.social found in our creative space to relax, inspire, or chill out. Thanks to incredible @saralutra.bsky.social and the ever lovely @gaffamondo.bsky.social 🏴☠️🖤🦖
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Ideas for minerals to compete in #MinCup2025? Nominate them now! www.mineralcup.org/nominations
Want to be part of this year’s organizing team? We love volunteers! www.mineralcup.org/volunteer
Want to be part of this year’s organizing team? We love volunteers! www.mineralcup.org/volunteer
Nominate Minerals — Mineral Cup
www.mineralcup.org
August 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Ideas for minerals to compete in #MinCup2025? Nominate them now! www.mineralcup.org/nominations
Want to be part of this year’s organizing team? We love volunteers! www.mineralcup.org/volunteer
Want to be part of this year’s organizing team? We love volunteers! www.mineralcup.org/volunteer
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Fossil swamp-forest plants at Brymbo, Wrexham - where 300 million years ago giant lycopods (clubmosses) like Lepidodendron towered to over 120ft tall with massive horsetails like Calamites! Amazing to be able to see these at Stori Brymbo.
August 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Fossil swamp-forest plants at Brymbo, Wrexham - where 300 million years ago giant lycopods (clubmosses) like Lepidodendron towered to over 120ft tall with massive horsetails like Calamites! Amazing to be able to see these at Stori Brymbo.
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Check out these great new story maps from @geomarkiel.bsky.social on discovering the "seascapes" of the ocean floor, including dangerous hidden volcanoes!
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5b3e...
and
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ea60...
🌊 🦑
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5b3e...
and
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ea60...
🌊 🦑
Discover the landscape of the ocean floor
There's more to it than continental shelfes, abyssal plains and mid ocean ridges!
storymaps.arcgis.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Check out these great new story maps from @geomarkiel.bsky.social on discovering the "seascapes" of the ocean floor, including dangerous hidden volcanoes!
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5b3e...
and
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ea60...
🌊 🦑
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5b3e...
and
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ea60...
🌊 🦑
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Bacteria from a Yellowstone hot spring do something no other organism has been found to do: breathe oxygen and sulfur at the same time. 🧪 It's both aerobic and anaerobic, a beautiful freaky creature from a beautiful freaky place
The Cells That Breathe Two Ways | Quanta Magazine
In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.
www.quantamagazine.org
July 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bacteria from a Yellowstone hot spring do something no other organism has been found to do: breathe oxygen and sulfur at the same time. 🧪 It's both aerobic and anaerobic, a beautiful freaky creature from a beautiful freaky place
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July 22, 1960, the discovery & description of the high-pressure mineral coesite ends an almost 100-year-long debate about the origin of Barringer Crater in #Arizona 💎☄️
www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...
www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...
July 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
July 22, 1960, the discovery & description of the high-pressure mineral coesite ends an almost 100-year-long debate about the origin of Barringer Crater in #Arizona 💎☄️
www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...
www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...
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Climate change turns Alpine glaciers into ‘Swiss cheese’, raising water and power concerns
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
Climate change is turning Switzerland's glaciers into ‘Swiss cheese’
Glacier shrinkage has wide impacts on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels, and border tensions when it comes to cross-boundary rivers.
www.euronews.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Climate change turns Alpine glaciers into ‘Swiss cheese’, raising water and power concerns
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
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#Weekendreading: Spatola et al., on the distribution of pockmarks around the Mediterranean. Some methodological issues, but an interesting dataset with implications for hydrocarbon and groundwater seeps.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 27, 2025 at 7:05 AM
#Weekendreading: Spatola et al., on the distribution of pockmarks around the Mediterranean. Some methodological issues, but an interesting dataset with implications for hydrocarbon and groundwater seeps.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This #FossilFriday offering is a hand painted cast of the Ediacaran fractal-like #Fractofusus misrai from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland for an outreach project i’m doing. This is one of the abundant curvy specimens that Rod Taylor worked on for this cool paper www.researchgate.net/publication/...
June 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This #FossilFriday offering is a hand painted cast of the Ediacaran fractal-like #Fractofusus misrai from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland for an outreach project i’m doing. This is one of the abundant curvy specimens that Rod Taylor worked on for this cool paper www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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#FossilFriday Elrathia kingi is one of the most common trilobites in the Cambrian rocks of Utah’s West Desert. Thousands are found yearly—many geologists have one on their fridge. Yet this specimen - first published in 2008 - is the only one I know of that preserves both limbs and gut remains. 🤩
June 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
#FossilFriday Elrathia kingi is one of the most common trilobites in the Cambrian rocks of Utah’s West Desert. Thousands are found yearly—many geologists have one on their fridge. Yet this specimen - first published in 2008 - is the only one I know of that preserves both limbs and gut remains. 🤩
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⚠️ The nice opportunity to join on-line and learn more about calcareous nanofossils ⬇️
Non-members welcome: to register email: [email protected]
#geology #geologyrocks #fossils
Non-members welcome: to register email: [email protected]
#geology #geologyrocks #fossils
May 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
⚠️ The nice opportunity to join on-line and learn more about calcareous nanofossils ⬇️
Non-members welcome: to register email: [email protected]
#geology #geologyrocks #fossils
Non-members welcome: to register email: [email protected]
#geology #geologyrocks #fossils
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Live from the field, #FridayFolds on Berneray, Outer Hebrides.
Sheared Lewian gneiss.
Waiting for tide to go out 😎
Sheared Lewian gneiss.
Waiting for tide to go out 😎
April 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Live from the field, #FridayFolds on Berneray, Outer Hebrides.
Sheared Lewian gneiss.
Waiting for tide to go out 😎
Sheared Lewian gneiss.
Waiting for tide to go out 😎
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Congratulations to Arran Geopark on being awarded
🗻 UNESCO Global Geopark 🏔️status!
It’s fab to see Arran being recognised for its unique geological heritage, rich biodiversity, and commitment to protecting their natural heritage.
🗻 UNESCO Global Geopark 🏔️status!
It’s fab to see Arran being recognised for its unique geological heritage, rich biodiversity, and commitment to protecting their natural heritage.
April 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Congratulations to Arran Geopark on being awarded
🗻 UNESCO Global Geopark 🏔️status!
It’s fab to see Arran being recognised for its unique geological heritage, rich biodiversity, and commitment to protecting their natural heritage.
🗻 UNESCO Global Geopark 🏔️status!
It’s fab to see Arran being recognised for its unique geological heritage, rich biodiversity, and commitment to protecting their natural heritage.
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The Isle of Arran has officially been announced as a UNESCO Global Geopark! 🎉
UNESCO’s Global Geoparks are areas with internationally important landscapes & bring together other aspects of heritage such as archaeology, history, culture and biodiversity.
www.bgs.ac.uk/news/isle-of...
UNESCO’s Global Geoparks are areas with internationally important landscapes & bring together other aspects of heritage such as archaeology, history, culture and biodiversity.
www.bgs.ac.uk/news/isle-of...
April 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The Isle of Arran has officially been announced as a UNESCO Global Geopark! 🎉
UNESCO’s Global Geoparks are areas with internationally important landscapes & bring together other aspects of heritage such as archaeology, history, culture and biodiversity.
www.bgs.ac.uk/news/isle-of...
UNESCO’s Global Geoparks are areas with internationally important landscapes & bring together other aspects of heritage such as archaeology, history, culture and biodiversity.
www.bgs.ac.uk/news/isle-of...
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A nice schist with muscovite, kyanite/sillimanite, chlorite, and twinned plagioclase.
#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks
#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks
April 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
A nice schist with muscovite, kyanite/sillimanite, chlorite, and twinned plagioclase.
#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks
#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks
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OTD UK Earthquakes: April 2, 1990. 13:46:34.2UTC M5.1 Depth=14km Clun (Bishop’s Castle), Shropshire. Felt: England & Wales + southern Scotland & eastern Ireland. Damage: Clun Castle, Shrewsbury, Wrexham. Clun is on the Pontisford-Linley Fault, the western edge of the Midlands Microcraton. ⚒️🧪
April 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
OTD UK Earthquakes: April 2, 1990. 13:46:34.2UTC M5.1 Depth=14km Clun (Bishop’s Castle), Shropshire. Felt: England & Wales + southern Scotland & eastern Ireland. Damage: Clun Castle, Shrewsbury, Wrexham. Clun is on the Pontisford-Linley Fault, the western edge of the Midlands Microcraton. ⚒️🧪
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Thanks to everyone supporting us, especially our funders @leverhulme.ac.uk & National Geographic
Read the paper here (open access!):
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Read the paper here (open access!):
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
A new Middle Jurassic lagoon margin assemblage of theropod and sauropod dinosaur trackways from the Isle of Skye, Scotland
Although globally scarce, Middle Jurassic dinosaur tracks are known from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, and help indicate the palaeoenvironmental preferences and behaviour of major dinosaur clades. Here,...
journals.plos.org
April 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Thanks to everyone supporting us, especially our funders @leverhulme.ac.uk & National Geographic
Read the paper here (open access!):
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Read the paper here (open access!):
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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It is earlier than I expected, but here is preview post of the new Eruptions newsletter. I've got information and background on the current unrest around Santorini that (as of 2/15) includes tremor to go with the earthquake swarm. The post is free to everyone: eruptions.beehiiv.com/p/eruptions-...
Eruptions Newsletter, Preview Edition: February 15, 2025
Things are busy in the Mediterranean.
eruptions.beehiiv.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It is earlier than I expected, but here is preview post of the new Eruptions newsletter. I've got information and background on the current unrest around Santorini that (as of 2/15) includes tremor to go with the earthquake swarm. The post is free to everyone: eruptions.beehiiv.com/p/eruptions-...
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And it's sheared! ⚒️
February 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
And it's sheared! ⚒️