Nick

[GirlsIntoGeoscience @girlsingeosci]

With #GiG2022 just 2 weeks away its time to give a sneak preview of what the girls will be getting up to for Girls into Geoscience @plymuni this year! With fieldtrips, workshops and some amazing speakers, we can't wait to meet everyone!

[Geology Tweets @GeologyTime]

Slice of Amethyst stalactite, Uruguay

Photo: Uruguay Minerals

#minerals

[Neil Clark @JurassicClark1]

Giant pterosaur found on Skye https://t.co/4XcMAxEqB4. Proud to have been with the team from Edinburgh led by @SteveBrusatte when it was discovered in 2017. My photos are blurred as it was getting dark by the time it was lifted. #pterosaur #skye #scotland @hunterian

[Geologists' Assoc @GeolAssoc]

Congratulations to all involved 🍾

[Dr Dean Lomax @Dean_R_Lomax]

Marching into #TrilobiteTuesday like this conga line of queueing trilobites.

These almost half a billion-year-old trilobites belong to an eyeless, three-spined species called Ampyx priscus, from Morocco. This is rare evidence of group behaviour, probably related to migration.

[Geologists' Assoc @GeolAssoc]

Welcome to February and a striking image from the 2022 GA calendar of flint percussion cones from the, Bridewell Museum, Norwich courtesy of Ian Mercer, which was highly commended in the GA 2020 photographic competition.

[Dr Dean Lomax @Dean_R_Lomax]

Returned to my PhD thesis today to look at Ichthyosaurus, including this pregnant example I studied with @dinosven. See the tiny spine & fin of the embryo?

Made me smile reading the acknowledgements again, as Mary Anning is in the list of people who had helped me along the way.

[Dr Dean Lomax @Dean_R_Lomax]

Here’s another little video highlighting the great size and detail of the #RutlandSeaDragon. Look at that gorgeous hindfin!

This was almost the halfway point of the excavation. We’d exposed most of the skeleton, began creating a trench and started the plaster jacketing process.

[Saracens Rugby Club @Saracens]

How tasty 👅⁉️

#StrongerTogether ⚫️🔴

[The Scottish Geology Trust @scottishgeology]

Speaking of nice gneisses.. behold this glorious garnetiferous gneiss from near Lochinver, Sutherland 😍 This area is also part of the fantastic @NWHGeopark!

[Nigel Larkin @MrIchthyosaurus]

How we managed the nearly #impossible: #excavating & lifting a 1.5 tonne block of #Jurassic clay containing the #gorgeous #abdomen of the #RutlandSeaDragon. I look forward to examining the #StomachContents
#Ichthyosaur #Skeleton #CSI

[The Geological Society of Glasgow @GeolSocGlasgow]

glacitectonics.... glaciers can push a lot of stuff about!!
see talk from Emrys Phillips to geol soc glasgow
https://t.co/XiBfWO2A4T

[Mark Tingay @CriticalStress_]

Many folks are understandable confused by the two arrivals of the eruption shockwave seen here in the UK and as @USGSVolcanoes posted in the US.

In case it helps, here is an azimuthal map of the world centred on Tonga, showing the two paths of the wave to the UK.

[Dr Dean Lomax @Dean_R_Lomax]

Nice to have the #RutlandSeaDragon feature on #DiggingForBritain, but there is SOOOOOO much more footage available with chat from the entire team. 100% needs its own documentary!

Surely, the most COMPLETE skeleton of any large prehistoric reptile in Britain deserves its own doc?