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I'm geologist Kathelijne Bonne and 🐚GondwanaTalks 🌋 is my multilingual blog. It is a microcosm in which I write about earth science, interspersing the posts with philosopical questions on our human role in nature.🪸
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Richard Fortey, #paleontologist and expert in #trilobites, passed away this spring. Read my #tribute to a great writer who influenced important choices in my #life.
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#geology #richardfortey #fossils #trilobite
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July 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Partial #eclipse of the sun on 29 March 2025. Seen from #Belgium it was shrouded by #clouds, which made the spectacle more haunting and #beautiful. Thx E. Niemegeers, J Deltour for the pics.
Check my post on the #totaleclipse of the #sun last year:
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#totality
Projection of the partial eclipse of the sun on 29 march 2025 through vegetation. from Spain by Kathelijne Bonne. Partial eclipse of the sun shrouded by clouds, seen from Belgium, by Jorne Deltour, 29 march 2025. Partial eclipse of the sun shrouded by clouds, seen from Belgium, by Els Niemegeers, 29 march 2025.
April 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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A few impressions from my time in #Fuerteventura. Most people go there for the beaches and all-in hotels, but I came to see the #soilscapes.
Go to GondwanaTalks to read the article on this wonderful, forgotten place.
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#soilscience #soil #soilrocks #suelo
April 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands, has astonishing #soilscapes. This #island became a desert after centuries of erosion. Its volcanic colours range from ochre to red, black and mauve. Life clings to rocks, dew and skeletic soils. 🤎🩵🧡
#Fuerteventura #CanaryIslands #Canarias #soilscience
Fuerteventura: soil, erosion, colors and flora.
Despite being a windblown wasteland, Fuerteventura’s rust-colored soils give rise to remarkable life forms.
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April 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Happy birthday Jane Goodall! At 91 you are more active than most people. You remain an inspiration to all.
I'm happy to be a #volunteer for #JGIBelgium
Read my post on when I met Jane: www.gondwanatalks.com/l/meeting-ja...
#JaneGoodall #GoodDayAll
April 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Read about Jane Goodall, animals and ethical questions on #8M International women's day. A few reflexions on why we eat and keep animals. #empathy #animals #meat #vegan #janegoodall
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The animals we love and eat, ethical questions, and Jane Goodall.
We feel more empathy for our pets, which have names, feelings and personalities, than for the animals we eat; even though once they all used to live together on family-run farms and were all treated t...
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March 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Happy Valentine! Signs of love are everywhere, if you look for them. #love #nature #savetheplanet #planet
February 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Int'l Day of #women and girls in #science. Read about #MaryAnning the fossil hunter from #Dorset in #Britain. She was pivotal for #Darwin 's theories and in smashing dogmas.
▶️Link: www.gondwanatalks.com/l/women-of-g...
Image: ChatGPT, #ammonite probably not accurate. #lymeregis #palaeontology
February 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#Santorini, read more about this #volcano and the other volcanoes in Europe, and which ones are the most menacing.
🌋🟧➡️ Link to post:
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Pic: Aleksandar Pasaric on Pexels. #geology #eruption #greece #volcanology #volcanoes
February 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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With #Santorini and #CampiFlegrei being restless, have a read of my article on the #volcanoes of #Europe. Which are our #supervolcanoes? How likely is an #eruption?
🔥🟨 #Naples #Greecevolcanoes #thera #vesuvius

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Volcanoes of Europe: a grand tour.
The lesser known volcanoes may well be the most dangerous.
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February 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Elements necessary for #life, like phosphorous, how did they form on Earth? Most #phosphorous in rock won't work, it must be bio-available P. All crucial questions to decipher the origin of life.
#originoflife #abiology #earth #geology #earthscience #gondwanatalks #lightning #earlyearth #biology
Did lightning provide phoshorus to ancient life?
The role of lightning during the emergence of life has consequences for extraterrestrial life hypotheses
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January 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Will #war ever stop? The human toll is horrendous, but there is also massive damage to natural resources such as #soil. In this post on #Ukraine, read how the fertile #chernozem soils are affected, and how they fight back!
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🟦 #soilscience #humus
Chernozems of Ukraine: when bombs hit the soil.
On the impact of war on the most fertile soils in the world.
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January 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Do you also think that major natural disasters and their aftermath deserve profound planning and mitigation? Can we deal with a #supereruption? Link to article :
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🌋 #supervolcano #volcanologist #volcano #aftermath
January 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Supereruptions, can they happen and how to prepare? How to grow food when a sulphur haze blocks the sunlight? Link to article ➡️🌋
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#volcanoes #volcanologist #growingfood #foodcrisis #newfood #gondwanatalks #yellowstone #campiflegrei #tambora #toba
January 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Stillife of my rocks and minerals. #hematite, pieces of coral, aragonite, amethyst. Check out the #mineral topics on my blog: ➡️💎 www.gondwanatalks.com/en/series/mi...
January 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Fossil ferns helped early earth scientists to literally assemble the idea of #Gondwana and #platetectonics. 🪨Link to post: www.gondwanatalks.com/l/plate-tect...
January 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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The way the #geography and #tectonics of the Middle East changed was pivotal in shaping how we became human. A post on how a new ocean, the #RedSea, opened during the final spasms of the ancient #Tethys ocean; and what that meant for human ancestors.
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#evolution
Middle East and human evolution: Red Sea, Tethys and wandering hominids.
Nowhere but in the Middle East was geography so pivotal in shaping how we became human. A unique geological setting forged either gateways or barriers for migration, which would eventually isolate hum...
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January 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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On the Middle East and how we became human. An article on human evolution along the Red Sea, Mediterranean and the #Tethys Ocean. #humanevolution #redsea #aquaticape #waterside #hominids #humanity #redsea #middleeast. Link to post: ➡️ www.gondwanatalks.com/l/middle-eas...
January 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Soil scientists, what am I seeing here? Small soil nodules brought up to the surface by ants or other soil life? #soil #soilscience #bodem #soillife #soils4life #soilscientist #bodemkunde.
🤎Go to soil posts: www.gondwanatalks.com/en/soils/
Picture of soil with dead leafs, plants and small soil particles.
January 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The first known case of macho behaviour is hundreds of millions of years old. This #trilobite has a trident used for jousting and winning female favours. #richardfortey #palaeontology #geology #fossils #arthropods 🦕🐜
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Fossil of Devonian trilobite with trident used to ward off females.
January 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Wonderful #Wolfmoon. First full moon after the winter #solstice. More on why there is a #moon: 🚀🌕🌙
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January 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Lichen in frost in dunes, at the sea front, Belgium. Wonderful life.
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#lichen #life #naturephotography #belgium
January 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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#Gondwana has always fascinated me. The long gone southern #supercontinent that enabled forming the world we know today. Read more: 🦕 www.gondwanatalks.com
January 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Have we created an Age of #Fire? Are we living in the #Pyrocene? Some thoughts on the role of fire in our human epoch, and in the geological past, e.g. in the Carboniferous when there was more #oxygen in the air. #ageoffire ➡️🔥https://www.gondwanatalks.com/l/pyrocene-life-on-a-blazing-planet/
Scene depicting wildfire by Kathelijne Bonne, using DALL·E via ChatGPT, OpenAI.
January 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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A few titles I'm reading. Some are entirely consumed while in bars and restaurants (which happens when living in Spain 🍷). Some books were gifts! Thanks to the givers! And to the authors. #marginalian #moss #trilobite #minerals #andreawulf #elainemorgan #thomashalliday #carlorovelli #madelaineboehme
January 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM