Flügel-Course

Flügel-Course: International Course on Carbonate Microfacies | Held at @UniFAU since 1974 | Discover the fascination of carbonate rocks with us

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The Flügel-Course is a five-days course on carbonate microfacies which attracts participants from all over the world and takes place twice a year at @UniFAU in Erlangen, Germany. For more info check our website: https://t.co/mXpyXj7GCR

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#PhotoOfTheMonth March 2024: #Thinsection of a bioclastic grainstone with gravitational dolomite cements, indicating very early dolomite precipitation in the vadose zone (stained with Alizarin-S, Upper Jurassic, N-Germany)

#Carbonate #Microfacies

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This invasive species lives in waters with varying salinities and it suffers little competition from other serpulids (crossed polarized light, sample kindly provided by Hanno Kinkel) (2/2)

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#PhotoOfTheMonth February 2024: #Thinsection of a recent serpulid reef (Ficopomatus enigmaticus), Plymouth, UK (1/2)

#Carbonate #Microfaces

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#PhotoOfTheMonth January 2024: #Thinsection of the “Ludlow Bone Bed” (Silurian, UK), almost completely composed of phosphatic fragments of ganoid fish

#Carbonate #Microfacies

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Note the nice geopetal structures underneath the big components. Fuerteventura, crossed polarized light, sample provided by Barbara Seuß @seuss_barbara (2/2)

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#PhotoOfTheMonth December 2023: #Thinsection of a recent dune sediment with broken pieces of urn nests of flower bees (Anthophora sp.) and a fragment of a land snail (1/2)

#Carbonate #Microfacies

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#PhotoOfTheMonth November 2023: The world’s smallest butterfly. Echinoderm fragment from the Hemse Group (Silurian, Gotland)

#Carbonate #Microfacies #Thinsection

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This photograph shows a large columnar stromatoporoid (which is narrower at the bottom than in the middle) from the famous biostrome in Kuppen.

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#PhotoOfTheMonth October 2023: We are back from our 2-week student’s #FieldTrip to #CarbonateParadise Gotland (Sweden) with wonderful #Silurian carbonate rocks and #fossils.

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#PhotoOfTheMonth September 2023: Partly silicified and bioeroded brachiopod shell embedded in a sediment rich in quartz grains and sponge spicules (“opoca”); uppermost Cretaceous, Poland

#Carbonate #Microfacies

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#PhotoOfTheMonth August 2023: Partly dolomitized shell fragments, echinoderms, and glauconite in a Middle Triassic #limestone from the Upper Muschelkalk (Northern Bavaria, Germany). #Thinsection was stained with a mixed solution of alizarin red-S and potassium ferricyanide

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#PhotoOfTheMonth July 2023: Poorly preserved Halimeda fragment (green alga) from the subsurface of the Bahamas; internal structure partly filled with sediment and/or cement crystals (thin section impregnated with blue resin).
#ThinSectionThursday

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Thin section, transmitted light. Download the open access paper here: https://t.co/s6O9AiX9bf (2/2)

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#PhotoOfTheMonth June 2023: Glendonite crystal ( = pseudomorph after the cryophilic carbonate mineral ikaite) from the Lower Jurassic (uppermost Pliensbachian) of S-Germany indicating a massive cooling in the European epicontinental sea (1/2)

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New paper by our #FlügelCourse team members Anna Merkel @annalithes and Axel Munnecke @Axel_Munnecke

Download here (open access): https://t.co/rXjIPLQu5M

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My very first paper – hot off the press! 🎉Published open access in #Facies together with @Axel_Munnecke. If you are interested in glendonites and the Early Jurassic climate, download the .pdf here: https://t.co/2o8BpV9R1M

#AcademicTwitter #Geology #Carbonate #Sedimentology

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#PhotoOfTheMonth May 2023: The oldest Bonsai tree (Silurian, Gotland) 🌳 According to Andrej Ernst (Hamburg) it is an undescribed esthoniporate bryozoan

#thinsection

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Interesting online talk by @Axel_Munnecke coming up soon at #SedimentologyLunch @DGGV_de
Save the date and register for free 👇

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#PhotoOfTheMonth April 2023: Recent carbonate gravel (bivalves, gastropods, coralline red algae, serpulids, barnacles, sea urchins) from a rocky shore environment in N-Norway

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And we're done once again! A huge thank you to the participants of the second #FlügelCourse for being such a vivid group! We would also like to thank the lecturers, the student helpers and all the people from @PaleoFAU and @UniFAU who made this year's Flügel courses possible! 🎉

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