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  1. Hand sample and thin section of a pillow rind and interior from Palaeogene lavas of eastern Baffin island. The solidifying melt continued to exsolve gas bubbles, trapped in the pillow interior by the rind.

    #ThinsectionThursday #BaffinIsland #Basalt #Geology

  2. Hand sample and thin section of a pillow rind and interior from Palaeogene lavas of eastern Baffin island. The solidifying melt continued to exsolve gas bubbles, trapped in the pillow interior by the rind.

  3. Hand sample and thin section of a pillow rind and interior from Palaeogene lavas of eastern Baffin island. The solidifying melt continued to exsolve gas bubbles, trapped in the pillow interior by the rind.

    #ThinsectionThursday #BaffinIsland #Basalt #Geology

  4. Hand sample and thin section of a pillow rind and interior from Palaeogene lavas of eastern Baffin island. The solidifying melt continued to exsolve gas bubbles, trapped in the pillow interior by the rind.

    #ThinsectionThursday #BaffinIsland #Basalt #Geology

  5. Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (#WHOI) have made a fascinating discovery in the Arctic. They have found that ancient #lava from #BaffinIsland in #Canada's #Arctic Archipelago have highest ratios of #helium-3 (#3He) to helium-4 (#4He). This suggests extremely high levels of 3He in these lavas might come from #Earth's core. This groundbreaking finding could potentially rewrite our understanding of history of ancient elements in center of our planet. vice.com/en/article/93kgwd/ear

  6. Another #tuberculosis #outbreak has been declared in #Nunavut , this time in a community near the top of #BaffinIsland .
    Nunavut’s Department of #Health announced Friday that five active and 22 latent cases of TB have been identified in #PondInlet , a hamlet of 1,500 people, since last month.

    theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada

    #Canada #FirstNations #NativeHealth #Indigenous #medical #disease #FarNorth #HealthCrisis

  7. Nakasuk had a very novel cellular layout featuring open plan classrooms (again, this was the 1970s). The nearly windowless rooms continue to be, shall we say, …controversial. Though as a student there in the 80s, I can’t say I noticed much.

    #arctic #architecture #archidon #building #BaffinIsland #nunavut