Tom Argles

Geologist, Open University lecturer, reluctant GIS-er, intermittent cricketer, birder, gardener, dad and sometime writer.

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Map of Europe

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99% of Americans can't name this country

[Tom Argles @tomargles]

#uksnow MK18 7/10 Large wet flakes coming down steadily in Buckingham

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Average number of bowel movements per week

[GeoWeekUK @GeoWeekUK]

Found any awesome new outcrops this summer? Starting to plan for GeoWeek UK 2025? Dates are now confirmed: 24 May - 1 June - check out https://t.co/6kXpV3MO4y for details on how to join the geo-fun and organise an event. #geoweekuk2025

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The Pacific Ocean is so vast it could hold 16 Polands

[Tom Argles @tomargles]

The first AI-generated map of the British Isles (well, most of them) in commercial use? @TerribleMaps

[Ian @geekcubed]

Super excited to be a member of @OctopusEnergy 's Smart Founder's Club. But your map is seriously peaking my ASD child's trigger points : they kindly suggest your design intern should watch @jayforeman

[Tom Argles @tomargles]

@HackedOffHugh Too late to the party as always, but bauxite, named after the town of Les Baux in that region...

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This is incorrect. Greater Tokyo is actually in Japan

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Mercator projection vs Real size of each country

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[Katy Penland 🇺🇸✈️🇺🇦🌻🇮🇱 @PenlandKW]

Flight Tracker's got nothing on the GPS data that tracked this shark drawing a picture of... himself? 😊
h/t David Attenborough

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More people live in the green area than the blue area

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Map of Cricket positions 🤯

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Love your work

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The roundest countries

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An image of GPS tracking of multiple wolves in six different packs around Voyageurs National Park shows how much the wolf packs avoid each other's range

[Tom Argles @tomargles]

@metageologist Our local gravel (Buckingham area) is fluvioglacial, composed mainly of flint with some Triassic pebbles. But also contains fairly common Gryphaea, Belemnite pieces, occasional rhynchonellids, portions of ammonite, all from the Jur limestones eroded into ice age rivers.