#petrology — Public Fediverse posts
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🚨Job Alert!!🚨Assistant Professor - Mineral Science - University of Houston, Texas. High-temperature #geochemistry, #Mineralogy, igneous #petrology, and/or #metamorphic petrology #geology ⚒️
https://careers.uh.edu/jobs/assistant-professor-mineral-science-houston-texas-united-states
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Mélange (Petrology 💎)
In geology, a mélange is a large-scale breccia, a mappable body of rock characterized by a lack of continuous bedding and the inclusion of fragments of rock of all sizes, contained in a fine-grained deformed matrix. The mélange typically consists of a jumble of large blocks of varied lithologies. Both tectonic and sedimentary processes can form mélange. Mélange occurrences are associated with...
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"Bevan started his geological work in #metamorphic #petrology, and his PhD centered on stability of siderite and metamorphism of iron formations in the Minnesota iron range. At a geological conference in Minneapolis[...], Bevan gave a talk about his thesis work there, which attracted a smart lady who was working for an iron-mining company. Two years later they married. Mary Hill French became a close partner in editing [his] manuscripts and joined in all the travels around the world." #geology