MinPlot2.0 has been redesigned to an #app and now no software license needed! You can plot #mineral data anything you want quickly and easily. It took me only a few minutes to make these cool plots for chlorite. Will release soon! #geology #petrology #software

🚨New paper🚨 led by Dr. Susana Henriquez and with Ochir Gerel, Cari Johnson, Dr Laura Webb, & Peter C Lippert: We present a compilation of geochemical data to assess how magmatism changed in time and space during the closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2… #geochemistry

The French language always makes things appear fancy. For example, in geology you can say 'mélange' to avoid saying 'absolute mess'.

"The data…suggest that snow sheep…regularly consume coal…to restore a disturbed REE balance in the body." 🐏🤔 doi.org/10.1134/S10283…

When in Melbourne I like to treat my precious rocks to a tram ride 🚃🪨 #PetRox #NorthcoteFieldTrip

Always a pleasure seeing well-formed ice crystals forming in our kitchen freezer

More ice crystals! This time at the top of an olive jar left for a couple of weeks in the back of the refrigerator! ❄️ 🫒

#Eclogite, the most beautiful type of rock on earth, consisting of green omphacite and red garnet. It’s formed at great depths of more than 35 km from subducted basaltic ocean crust, and then exhumed back to the surface by tectonics, simply magnificent.

Strontianite and monazite, backscattered electrons vs cathodoluminescence. #ThinSectionThursday #geology #mineralogy

Got some light reading to keep myself entertained while travelling 💎

The Guardian has a piece today fluffing the degrowth mooncalves. Mostly what you’d expect, but this tidbit is curious: they still want growth in the Global South but only sustainable growth, a phenomenon they are calling “delinking”. I have a few thoughts…

Zircon wouldn’t lie about its age, right? 🤔 Our experiments reveal #zircon modified by melt can become a hot mess overnight & that U-Pb ages are potentially meaningless! Dang! 😬 New paper led by Jeremy Asimus IMAS Australian Centre for Antarctic Science (ACEAS) Macquarie University onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jm…