This #FossilFriday I present one of the weirdest ?fungal things I’ve spotted in a Miocene-ish deposit.
Also, guess who’s not dead? It’s me, I finished the PhD and then slightly fell of the planet for a bit 😅
These being my first set of Paly samples I’ve prepared myself, I find myself asking for a handful of samples:
-is this sample just low yielding or barren and contaminated?
-is this other sample barren or did I stuff up?
Updated program for Palynology Short Talks - Session 4: Deep Time Palynology! Watch talks or/and give a talk in future monthly sessions? #palynologyforthepeople@PalyJen@FossilPollen@yoshi_maezumi
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Tune in TODAY at 14:00-16:30 (UTC+10) for the GSA Earth Sciences Student Symposium - Queensland session!!! Tickets still available at:
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The GESSS-TAS session will be running on Tuesday October 13th, 17:00-19:30 (UTC+10). #VirutalGESSS
Day 11 of drawing forams dressed for Halloween AND the first day of Earth Science Week 2020 (@earthsciweek)! G. menardii is joining in on the fun by dressing up like a geologist...with the TINIEST rock hammer ever.
@LeahM_Foster I would really appreciate it. And even though there’s nothing I can do to help with the hospital stuff, my thoughts and prayers are with you. I hope it goes as smoothly as humanly possible and your kids main memories of it wind up being of the quality of hospital food 💛
@LeahM_Foster We’ve got one interval of ‘sugar sand’ that I’m amazed stayed in the core, even dried out it just disintegrates if you brush it. I’ve got some of his and Macphails plant papers in my growing to-read pile. Which now the thesis is back with the examiners I can finally get into.
@LeahM_Foster Oh no! But congrats on finding a second outcrop. Ours was apparently originally soft enough to put your finger through. Despite getting drilled at the start of the year, we only got it back from the Melbourne hylogger a month ago. It took ages to dry enough to scan
@LeahM_Foster That’s some pretty nasty core loss! Ours is only missing a few meters here and there. We’re continuing on from work Kudzai Dube did last year on another couple of nearby cores. Hers were mostly basalt with a bit of sediment, whilst ours is mostly sediment capped by some basalt
@LeahM_Foster That is very interesting. What depositional environment do you think/know produced yours? Ours were originally logged as weathered igneous, but the lignites either side don���t seem heat affected. I’m really looking forward to seeing if any of them yield palynomorphs.
@LeahM_Foster Not biased at all 😂 we’re only just starting and our core’s proving really interesting. Our first mystery to sort out is the origins of a number of white clays interbedded with lignites. Not sure yet if they’re sedimentary, or some form of weathered igneous.
It’s time to take a break from the Jurassic, and to start learning how to identify angiosperm pollen! And start catching up on everything I missed while in thesis bubble 😄.
My awesome supervisor Prof Joan Esterle has hired me to do the palynological part of a study on the Cenozoic channels from the northern Bowen Basin region. The pictures above are of a leaf we found when logging the core and some of my paly samples under preparation.