manchesterbasins

Twitter account of the Manchester Basins Group at the University of Manchester

[David Hodgetts @VRGeoscience]

The talks from The Geological Society conference 'Digital Geoscience: Unleashing the Power of Data and Technology in Earth Sciences' are now on YouTube. @VRGeoscience presentation 👇
https://t.co/n1MUKvS7XD

[David Hodgetts @VRGeoscience]

The latest build of VRGS 3.1 has just gone online. Build 58 features improvements to the orientation measurement tool and greater flexibility in the way polyline groups can be displayed.
https://t.co/KvufJ3wnsc

[Phil Mannion @pdmannion]

Our department (@ES_UCL) is advertising a fully funded 3.5 year PhD scholarship, open to ethnic groups underrepresented in Earth Sciences (with UK/home fees status). If you're eligible & interested in crocodylomorph evolution &/or conservation palaeobiology, please email me

[David Hodgetts @VRGeoscience]

#VRGS Advent Day 7, and today we’re highlighting #VR 📆❄️
Get tips on how to set up your Meta Quest 2 with VRGS so you can experience immersive virtual geology on your PC. And remember, with VRGS, you can seamlessly transition between desktop and VR at the click of a button!

[David Hodgetts @VRGeoscience]

#VRGS Advent Day 8 📆❄️#FieldworkFriday!
We are off to St Ninians Cave in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It's one of our favourite models as it's a magnificent location with stunning geology and was created with just a handheld camera and a basic GPS.
#heritage #geology

[The Geological Society @GeolSoc]

Chickies Rock, a striking promontory on the Susquehanna River: the early Cambrian type locality of the trace fossil Skolithos and a model site for structural analysis.

Read more in the Lyell Collection https://t.co/fv8yaCtN3d

#Geology #EarthScience #Geoscience #Cambrian

[N8 CIR @N8CIR]

2nd Wave of Tickets Released!

Join us in Sheffield for our highly-anticipated Text-Mining code demos: Basic NLP workshop. Learn data analysis techniques, advanced deep learning, & how to effectively prompt large language models like ChatGPT.

More info: https://t.co/b84asBKzzo

[Dr Mads Huuse @MadsHuuse]

Good news for sustainability of battery storage. Maybe bad news for Li producers? 👇

[International Association of Sedimentologists IAS @sedimentology]

#WeekendReading with The Depositional Record @DepositRecord:
Testing geological proxies for deep‐time tidal model simulations https://t.co/IkpSLFhDJL

[The Geological Society @GeolSoc]

The UK National Geological Repository: a case study in innovation. By Michael P. A. Howe.

Read more in the Lyell Collection https://t.co/uiWwv9p1Q4

#Geology #Geoscience #EarthScience #OpenAccess

[Dr Mads Huuse @MadsHuuse]

Great kick off by Marit Brommer ⁦@lovegeothermal⁩ ⁦@KieranMullanUK⁩ & Michael MacKenzie ⁦@GeoEnergyNI⁩ highlighting the need for 20,000(!!) #geothermal wells per year worldwide & the lack of 🇬🇧 regulatory framework and finance despite #netzero urgency

[N8 CIR @N8CIR]

Closing soon!

You don't want to miss our Tree Models in Python session, where you will be taught absolutely everything, from when to use them to working through datasets.

Sign up now➡️ https://t.co/KgOh1o4NTZ

[IAS Meeting of Sedimentology Aberdeen 2024 @IAS_Aberdeen]

Time to get that abstract written... only one week to go until the deadline for @IAS_Aberdeen

@sedimentology #ias2024

[EGU TS Division @EGU_TS]

📢Tectonic Modelling Tuesday #58 - with analogue work by @IngeGelder & colleagues (from @UUEarthSciences), who studied the interplay between subduction and lateral extrusion in the European Eastern Alps😃

More details in their 2017 EPSL paper: https://t.co/MU3QOXPgl8

[Tom Coulthard @Tom_Coulthard]

If you’re a first year Geomorph PhD student book yourself a place on this course. It’s great. Windsor Workshop - British Society of Geomorphology https://t.co/Xa5x4Roq6g

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

-- Stephen Hawking

[IAS Meeting of Sedimentology Aberdeen 2024 @IAS_Aberdeen]

You can find key information about all things @IAS_Aberdeen on our website at https://t.co/0ifVKR2QQT

@sedimentology #ias2024

[Mike Clare @MikeAClare]

Real-time Distributed Acoustic Sensing feed from Iceland - measurements of volcanic activity made along a terrestrial fibre optic cable by ETH Zurich. Amazing data being gathered with strong potential for monitoring subsea volcanoes in real time https://t.co/A3WEQ0hoqB @vmsg_uk

[David Topping @lanky_manky]

Abstract submission now open for the long standing and popular Aerosol Chemistry and Physics session at #EGU24 lead by @SchobesbergerS, @PhDEmilyM @ZhonghuaZheng and me. Come and join us in Vienna! https://t.co/Xf1EEOhV3w

[Loughborough Geography and Environment @lborogeog]

Back from the field after a week in Namibia with Matt Baddock, @jobullard and John Anderson - a unique learning experience!🧵

@lborogeog @lborouniversity geography students enter the Namib Desert on day 1 of the Dryland Environments Fieldcourse based @GobabebRSH