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Everyone assumed Wogan Cavern, beneath Pembroke Castle, had been "emptied out" by Victorian diggers.
One archaeologist noticed an untouched calcite floor and thought otherwise.
Hippo bones. Mammoth remains. Early human tools. Now a 5-year Aberdeen-led dig, with hopes of pulling DNA straight from the cave sediment.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp36lnng046o
#history #geologyrocks #wales #uk #britain #caving #spelunking #archaeology
Limestone gets all the caving glory, but the chalk cliffs at Flamborough are riddled with sea caves hammered out by wave erosion, not karst.
Britain's widest variety of chalk cave habitats. Robin Lythe's Hole was even a smuggler's stash.
#yorkshire #flamborough #geology #geologyrocks #chalk #uk #britain #england #landscape
RE: https://mstdn.social/@History_of_Geology/116646066961358710
Plate tectonics is one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time! #GeologyRocks #Paleontology
Öffentliche #GeoShow „Unterirdisch“ für Schülerinnen und Schüler mit Johannes Büchs - 12.6., 10.30 Uhr an der #TUBAF
Geowissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler präsentieren bei der öffentlichen und interaktiven Geo-Show „Unterirdisch – Die Geo-Show“ ihre spannende Forschung, darunter einen untertägigen Vermessungsroboter mit Multi-Sensor-System.
https://tu-freiberg.de/events/geoshow-unterirdisch
#wissenschaftskommunikation #wissenschaft #geology #geologyrocks
#RockRockRock
Need to lick the sandstone to settle it!
#geology #rocks #best #rockpaperscissors #geologyrocks #SundayFunday
source: https://lacrossearthscience.weebly.com/
*NEW WORK, NEW LOCATION*
Welcome to Tynemouth! With the Easter break, and Storm Dave due to wreak havoc across northwest England, we did the only sensible thing and drive away from it.
Here's a small selection, but there's LOADS MORE from this location, just go here -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/posts/tynemouth-tyne-wear-spring/ 👍
#photography #photo #photographie #stormdave #tynemouth #tyneandwear #uk #britain #england #spring #nature #travel #landscape #seascape #geologyrocks
Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit! ☘️
The Yorkshire Dales and Ireland's Burren share 340-million-year-old Carboniferous limestone.
But the Dales have 2,500+ caves and 400+ km of passage. The Burren, ~56 caves, but 25,000 hectares of exposed limestone pavement vs. our 1,052.
Same rock. Very different worlds.
#geologyrocks #stpatricksday #yorkshiredales #theburren #ireland #limestone #karst
Some rockery - deformed/folded micaceous psammite and amphibolite and hornblende schist (age indeterminate).
#geology #rock #geologyrocks #glenaffric #highlands #scotland #nature
#naturephotography
At this time of year, with the low sun and the snow, it's easier to make out the Falls Foot landslip on Ingleborough's western edge.
This is what remains of a post-glacial landslip, which beautiful exposes the Yoredale sequence of limestone, shale, and sandstone layers, like a geology sandwich.
Looks like a giant has taken a huge bite out of the mountain, doesn't it?
#outdoors #landscape #travel #yorkshiredales #uk #britain #england #winter #geologyrocks
Bandera Crater is a large cinder cone that erupted approximately 10,000 years ago, creating a 23-mile lava flow & a lava tube system that includes an ice cave. The ice cave is a collapsed lava tube with natural, perpetual ice, the oldest layers of which are over 3,400 years old.
#OptOutside #roadtrip #travel #daytrip #nature #geology #geologyrocks #whataview #scenic #NewMexico #explore #landscape #naturelovers #hiking #hikingadventures #volcano #volcanic
New how-to article now up.📝
"Sanding and Polishing Meteorites by Hand" ☄️ 🪨 🖐️
How to improve the appearance and value of meteorite slices and endcuts using commonly available sandpaper and elbow grease. 💰 💪
🔗 Link : https://galactic-stone.com/galactic-stone-archive/sanding-and-polishing-meteorites-by-hand/
I wonder if anyone can help me identify this rock type, which is a very pale, cream-white layer in-between some harder rock. It lies pretty much at the interface between Ogwen and Marchlyn silt/mudstones on the western flanks of Cwm Pennant (eastern Nantlle ridge).
As it is in the water, it's clearly very soft and easily eroded. I could dig into it with a fingernail quite easily, broadly like dried-out clay. 🙏
