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Samuele Papeschi サムエレ パペスキ | Geology is the way ⚒️🧪
@calamitaman.bsky.social
Geologist, blogger, and traveler, almost always in couple ❤️
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Lived in 四国 🎎 and will miss it forever.
My ADHD forces me to post all the rocks I see ⚒️

My geology website: https://geologyistheway.com
How is your day going? Today I have found the first record of #Argiope trifasciata from #Tuscany, close to where I live. This #spider likes arid environments and it is spreading north as the #climate warms. Closest observations to this one are from Corsica, Sardinia and Naples. 🕷️🦋 #nature
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Another cutie pie today ❤️

⚒️ #geology #tectonics
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
##tectonictuesday Just polishin' the good stuff

#geology ⚒️
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
#MineralMonday Calcite crystals in the best mineralogy museum in the world: in the field.

Antignano, Leghorn, Italy
⚒️ #geology #minerals
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I have found a list of the characters. Takashi Yanase is the creator of 'Anpanman', a popular anime for kids. Yanase was born in Kochi and created a lot of characters for his beloved city. He also created the mascottes of the JR stations in Kochi prefecture.
September 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The characters of the "disaster preparedness for the next Nankai earthquake" on the tosaden, the historic tram of Kochi.

On the left, "tsunamiman and jishinman", the villains of our story (jishin = earthquake in Japanese)

⚒️ #geology #kochi #japan #nankai #earthquake #tsunami
September 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The Japanese leave nothing to chance
September 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Happyness is where the kanji are
September 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Feels like home ❤️
September 22, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Home... home again
September 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I am travelling and I am bored, so I'll post a random marble pic from my phone.
September 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Always fun to cut a new rock and discover gorgeous deformation structures 😍

#geology
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August 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Gabbro, grasshopper or gabbro-colored grasshopper?

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#geology #nature #insects #orthoptera
August 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
For #FridayFold I think you may like these refolded folds I just visited that are exposed in the Farma river valley close to Siena!

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#geology #structuralgeology #tectonics
August 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Today I have found the most aggressive spider we have in Italy, and I decided to wave a stick at it until it showed me its cute little fangs. Look! What a cutie pie it is ❤️

🕷️ Cheiracanthium punctorium - yellow sac spider
#nature #spiders
July 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I am out there into the wild right now
July 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
For #MineralMonday I want to share some sexy #garnet grains being replaced by #chlorite in retrogressed #eclogite

Dozan river, Besshi, Ehime, Japan
⚒️ #geology #minerals
July 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Weird rock. This is a sheared pegmatite from Elba.

It may look like a regular rock, but those plagioclase grains float in a groundmass of Li-mica (lepidolite) and there are many elbaite crystals around. I suspect the K-feldspar is what they call 'rubicline', A Rb-rich feldspar.
July 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
#FridayFold folded Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks (phyllites and metasandstones) along the eastern coast of Punta Bianca, La Spezia.

Those are second phase folds, you can see the earlier foliation parallel to bedding folded by these recumbent folds.

#geology #structuralgeology #tectonics
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July 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
#ThinSectionThursday

Barroisite - phengite - garnet schist, a retrogressed #eclogite from the Sanbagawa Belt of Japan

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#geology #thinsection #minerals
July 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The recrystallized grains in a mylonite always give me a sense of peace. Don't ask me why.
July 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Race in the mylonite. Muscovite vs tourmaline
July 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A domino of white mica
July 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Muscovite-out reaction, when mica is turned into a see of K-feldspars in between biotite grains. Cordierite and andalusite are also around.

#geology #metamorphism
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July 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
PROBLEM: I am late for #RockInTuesday, early for #ThinSectionThursday and very early for #FridayFold . Should I post this on Wednesday?

Folded quartzites in the contact aureole of the Monte Capanne pluton, Elba #geology
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July 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM