What kind of #music do #teacher listen to?
#CLASSical.
How about #geologist?
#Rock.
And #kangaroos?
#HipHop.

For the #SciArtSeptember theme “lyrical” I’m going with the use of imagination & analogy in the exploration & communication of science through thought-experiments like Lyell’s Amphibious Being! In geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875)’s famous ‘Principles of Geology,’ he wrote that to avoid some sources of prejudice in understanding #geology would require an Amphibious Being, 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #histstm #SciArtSeptember #amphibian #PhilosophyOfScience #EarthScience #geologist #MastoArt

September 10, 1907, birthday of Australian #geologist and #palaeontologist Dorothy Hill. Fighting in WWII she continued her studies on coral reef stratigraphy. In 2018 #GoogleDoodle celebrated her legacy ⚒️

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hill

Happy birthday to #geologist & #paleontogist Alice Wilson (1881-1964).⁠
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A job in the Mineralogy Division of the U of Toronto Museum was her entry into #geology. In 1909 as a museum assistant with Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), in Ottawa, she catalogued & labelled invertebrate paleontology collections. After completing her BSc in ‘11 she was 1st woman offered a position at GSC & 1st female geologist in #Canada.

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#linocut #printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #MastoArt

#YnysMôn is a #geologist's dream. Some of the oldest Precambrian #rocks on earth along with pillow lava, jasper formations and rocks of all colours can be found on this amazing island. #geology #seaside #YnysMon #Cymru #Wales

@Deus 😂
I was thinking maybe made by worms of some sort?
I need some #geologist brains help.

Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.⁠
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After studying #geology & math, Maurice 'Doc' Ewing at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia hired her to draft 1000s of echo sounder profiles. Women were still not allowed to participate in
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#MastoArt
#sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histstm #linocut

And why might #Dolphins and #Orcas be pissed off? Might have something to do with rising ocean temperatures (affecting their food sources) and all the CRAP we've been dumping into the world's oceans!

Signs of the human era, from #nuclear fallout to #microplastics

AFP, 10/07/2023

Paris (AFP) – As scientists make the case that humans have fundamentally transformed the planet enough to warrant our own geological epoch, another question arises: is there anything left untouched by humanity's presence?

"Soaring #greenhouse gases, ubiquitous microplastics, pervasive "forever chemicals", the global upheaval of animals, even old #MobilePhones and chicken bones -- all have been put forward as evidence that the world entered the #Anthropocene, or era of humans, in the mid-20th century.

"Jan Zalasiewicz, a British #geologist who chaired the Anthropocene Working Group for over a decade, paused for a moment when asked if there was anywhere on Earth that lacked signs of human influence.

"'It's hard to think of a more remote place' than the #PineIslandGlacier in #Antarctica, Zalasiewicz told AFP.

"Yet when scientists drilled deep below the glacier's ice a few years ago, they found traces of #plutonium.

"It was lingering fallout from nuclear weapon tests that began in 1945, leaving behind a #radioactive presence unlike anything before.

"Zalasiewicz said these radionuclides represented perhaps 'the sharpest signal' to mark the start of the Anthropocene epoch 70 years ago."

Read more:
https://www.rfi.fr/en/health-and-lifestyle/20230710-signs-of-the-human-era-from-nuclear-fallout-to-microplastics

#OrcaRevolution #DolphinRevolution #NoDumping #Fukushima #FukushimaWater #WaterIsLife

#TaylorSwift named ‘Honorary #Geologist’ by Washington state officials for Eras Tour #Seattle | #geology #swift ⚒️🪨

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/state/washington/article277532538.html

July 14, 1862, birthday of pioneering #geologist & petrologist Florence Bascom, 2nd woman to earn a Ph.D. in #geology in the #US & 1st woman to be hired by the #USGS ⚒️
She worked on Piedmont tectonics & sedimentation ⛰️

https://fossilbiasblog.com/2021/04/02/the-stone-lady-dr-florence-bascom-part-1/?fbclid=IwAR2tD9xpuXF_E7w2n9M3XtUcnafFUgWL5whkZIoZCop_OFm5sFkusT5_aDg

July 10, 1925, the #trial against #geologist & high school #science teacher John T. Scopes, arrested for teaching human #evolution in one of #Tennessee's public schools, begins 🙈🙉🙊

https://nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/summer-of-science-2015/latest/scopes-trial?fbclid=IwAR0BuM5OkArf3pnDSA91QeYmz8DFDPIeISZ3_qNTcMb0AwpUL89NC54j6zg

July 7, 1883, birthday of Austrian #geologist Albrecht Spitz. His geologic sections of the Engadin #Dolomites (1914) shows tectonic nappes & thrust faults - a novelty at the time when most structures in the# Alps were interpreted as large-scale folds ⛰️

https://tinyurl.com/6z6tk3ay

May 30, Happy #Geologist's Day in #Brazil 🇧🇷⚒️ 🥳
(in 1962 #OTD #geology was legally approved as a profession)

May 28, 1807, birthday of Swiss naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, paleontologist, zoologist & early glacier #geologist 🏔

https://tinyurl.com/4jzud5jw

Does any #geologist or rock lover on here have any recommendations for places to get cool rock blind bags or anything like that?

May 24, 2010, first #Post about the #History of #Geology on the #Blog about why it was so hard being a #geologist in the early days ⚒🎩

http://historyofgeology.fieldofscience.com/2010/05/hard-life-of-being-geologist.html

Doing some outreach tomorrow…
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Grabbed some discarded core from the rock core area as giveways… (although the big piece of halite is for my office shelf, to join the other ‘trotskies’…
#middleschool #outreach #jobfair #geology #rock #rockcore #stem #stemeducation #stemforkids #stemcareers #geologist #USGS

April 30, 1864, birthday of Scottish biologist & paleontologist Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon. Inspired by fossil corals, she became a pioneering #geologist in the #Dolomites creating some of the first geological maps and publishing field guides ⛰️

https://tinyurl.com/y6wnwbuq

April 26, 1774, birthday of German #geologist Christian Leopold von Buch. Introduced the Jurassic, the concept of guide #fossils, published one of #Germany's first geological maps & argued that the #Alps⛰️ formed by magmatic intrusions 🌋

https://tinyurl.com/3arxwjbh

April 19, 1882, Charles #Darwin dies #OTD in his home in Kent.
Time to remember his life as a #geologist 🪨⚒️

https://forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2019/02/12/charles-darwin-a-rockhound-aboard-the-beagle/#4d78f3fd33ad