#mincup23 — Public Fediverse posts

#TeamZircon This is all you! Congratulations! #MinCup23 Champions! Good job #TeamPerovskite!

#TeamZircon our lead is gone!

If there's anyone you can convince to vote, now's the time

https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-5-match-1
#MinCup23

#Zircon shock twins in zircon with planar fractures in Chicxulub quartz-monzodiorite dike. Do not be complacent #TeamZircon. Call your grandma and your Great Uncle Bob. Rally your colleagues and students. Pester your parents. Annoy your neighbors. This is it! We still need some zircon magic to keep the votes coming! #ZirconRemembers #MinCup23

Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-5-match-1

Brilliant. You can assure this is the last time :) Come join the meme team, and vote for #TeamZircon #MinCup23 #Zircon

The time has come for me to bring up the time I had a picture with David Tennant, TimeLord.
Vote #Zircon #MinCup23 @MineralCup #TeamZircon

So join me in voting for Deep Time #Zircon, the mineral that remembers.
#TeamZircon #MinCup23
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-5-match-1

Deep Time is a concept that surpasses our ability to comprehend. It is time for continents to collide, rift apart, & collide again. Time for mountains to rise, erode away, & arise again. Seas come & go. Life evolves. There is one mineral that remembers. #Zircon #TeamZircon #MinCup23

Go #Zircon, go! #TeamZircon Let’s go! #MInCup23

Tiny euhedral Zircons trapped inside sapphire? Yes! Find out how something this wonderful happens in @BlastyLavagrrrl, #TeamZircon’s best champion thread below! #MinCup23

https://mastodon.social/@BlastyLavagrrrl/111149797140708152

How, you might ask, does a perfectly formed #zircon get into a sapphire?

Sapphire melting temp: around 2030 °C. (wikipedia)
Zircon melting temp: high melting point (over 2500°C). (https://www.ga.gov.au/education/classroom-resources/minerals-energy/australian-mineral-facts/zircon)
Tiny zircons can withstand a lot of what makes and destroys other minerals.

Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-4-match-1

#TeamZircon #MinCup23 #MinCup2023 #MineralCup23 #MineralCup2023 #MineralCup #MinCup #SciComm #Science #Minerals #Geology #Mineralogy #Teaching #Education

Just leaving this here. Zircon and monazite. You're not going to see calcite in a sapphire, it couldn't take the heat.
#TeamZircon #sapphire #MineralInclusions #euhedral #MinCup23 #MinCup2023 #MineralCup23 #MineralCup2023 #MineralCup #MinCup #SciComm #Science #Minerals #Geology #Mineralogy #Teaching #Education #STEM #Zircon

C’mon #TeamZircon! Where you at? Time to rally if you want Zircon to go the the finale! So close… #Zircon #MinCup23

I visited museums and proudly declared my affiliation in Mineral Cup. My only regret is I didn't budget my time well!
Go vote for #Zircon.

https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/campaigns/round-4-match-1
#TeamZircon #MinCup23

Vote for the Ancient of Ancients! Vote #Zircon upon which the history of the Earth is writ!
#TeamZircon #MinCup23
https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/earths-oldest-minerals-date-onset-plate-tectonics-36-billion-years-ago

I can’t do a proper quote tweet here (sigh…), but this post “bears” reboosting. Read the whole thread (it’s a treasure) and then vote for #Zircon in #MinCup23 Go #TeamZircon!

https://aus.social/@ksircombe/111080379292855825

Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-3-match-1

Results here: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-3-match-1

#DoctorWho fans! Zircon needs your help. #TeamZircon.

QT: https://mastodon.social/@MineralCup/110998058838272417
[email protected] - Tick-took, tick-tick, it’s time to break your heart with #MinCup23 Round 1 Match 3: #Fluorapatite v #Zircon!

It’s shiny shark teeth vs the Time Lord. You have 24 hours.

Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-3

Check results: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-1-match-3

Getting ready for #TeamZircon for #MinCup23!

After some tightly fought match-ups in previous competitions will this year be the Timelord Zircon's year?

Join the sparkly and informative fun at https://www.mineralcup.org/mineral-cup-2023