#precambrian — Public Fediverse posts

🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

👉 https://www.newsbeep.com/au/178471/

#paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

👉 https://www.newsbeep.com/au/178471/

#paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

👉 https://www.newsbeep.com/au/178471/

#paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

👉 https://www.newsbeep.com/au/178471/

#paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

@KateShaw has made a new episode, featuring goblet-shaped Diskagma of the Paleoproterozoic, and Horodyskia of the Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic.

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/08/04/episode-444-diskagma-and-horodyskia/

#fossils
#preCambrian
#proterozoic
#Paleoproterozoic
#Mesoproterozoic
#Neoproterozoic
#Ediacaran

Unaweep Canyon - Two Creeks Flow Out Of Either End Of This [Colorado] Canyon In Opposite Directions
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/unaweep-canyon <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01112.1 <-- shared paper
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[seems like a motorcycle road trip is in order - and happy to visit this beautiful part of the world again]
#geology #colorado #paleovalley #UnaweepCanyon #unaweep #precambrian #unique #divide #water #hydrology #underfit #drainage #EastCreek #WestCreek #Dolores #Uncompahgre #UncompahgrePlateau #erosion #Gunninson #canyon #Tabeguache #mapping #geologicmapping #fieldwork #Cenozoic #gravel #sediment #rockcore #coring #lacustrine #geomorphology #geomorphometry #dating #landform #volcanics #tectonics

Unaweep Canyon - Two Creeks Flow Out Of Either End Of This [Colorado] Canyon In Opposite Directions
--
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/unaweep-canyon <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01112.1 <-- shared paper
--
[seems like a motorcycle road trip is in order - and happy to visit this beautiful part of the world again]
#geology #colorado #paleovalley #UnaweepCanyon #unaweep #precambrian #unique #divide #water #hydrology #underfit #drainage #EastCreek #WestCreek #Dolores #Uncompahgre #UncompahgrePlateau #erosion #Gunninson #canyon #Tabeguache #mapping #geologicmapping #fieldwork #Cenozoic #gravel #sediment #rockcore #coring #lacustrine #geomorphology #geomorphometry #dating #landform #volcanics #tectonics

Unaweep Canyon - Two Creeks Flow Out Of Either End Of This [Colorado] Canyon In Opposite Directions
--
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/unaweep-canyon <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01112.1 <-- shared paper
--
[seems like a motorcycle road trip is in order - and happy to visit this beautiful part of the world again]
#geology #colorado #paleovalley #UnaweepCanyon #unaweep #precambrian #unique #divide #water #hydrology #underfit #drainage #EastCreek #WestCreek #Dolores #Uncompahgre #UncompahgrePlateau #erosion #Gunninson #canyon #Tabeguache #mapping #geologicmapping #fieldwork #Cenozoic #gravel #sediment #rockcore #coring #lacustrine #geomorphology #geomorphometry #dating #landform #volcanics #tectonics

Unaweep Canyon - Two Creeks Flow Out Of Either End Of This [Colorado] Canyon In Opposite Directions
--
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/unaweep-canyon <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01112.1 <-- shared paper
--
[seems like a motorcycle road trip is in order - and happy to visit this beautiful part of the world again]
#geology #colorado #paleovalley #UnaweepCanyon #unaweep #precambrian #unique #divide #water #hydrology #underfit #drainage #EastCreek #WestCreek #Dolores #Uncompahgre #UncompahgrePlateau #erosion #Gunninson #canyon #Tabeguache #mapping #geologicmapping #fieldwork #Cenozoic #gravel #sediment #rockcore #coring #lacustrine #geomorphology #geomorphometry #dating #landform #volcanics #tectonics

Unaweep Canyon - Two Creeks Flow Out Of Either End Of This [Colorado] Canyon In Opposite Directions
--
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/unaweep-canyon <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01112.1 <-- shared paper
--
[seems like a motorcycle road trip is in order - and happy to visit this beautiful part of the world again]
#geology #colorado #paleovalley #UnaweepCanyon #unaweep #precambrian #unique #divide #water #hydrology #underfit #drainage #EastCreek #WestCreek #Dolores #Uncompahgre #UncompahgrePlateau #erosion #Gunninson #canyon #Tabeguache #mapping #geologicmapping #fieldwork #Cenozoic #gravel #sediment #rockcore #coring #lacustrine #geomorphology #geomorphometry #dating #landform #volcanics #tectonics

First evidence of life colonizing deep into the bedrock of Greenland https://phys.org/news/2024-09-evidence-life-colonizing-deep-bedrock.html

Late #Cretaceous and Early #Paleogene Fluid Circulation and Microbial Activity in Deep Fracture Networks of the #Precambrian Basement of Western Greenland https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GC011646

"These ages overlap with tectonic events related to the opening of the Atlantic Ocean... deep fracture networks in western #Greenland opened and were colonized by #microbes, such as sulfate reducers, during these events."

@deuxcvsix

🤔-PS Ich bin übrigens nicht #Precambrian sondern bi: #Paleogene und #Neogene

Jedem Tierchen sein Plasierchen 🙃