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Rhiannon
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A Welshie who likes rocks
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daearegwr-dryslyd.bsky.social
Sometimes it takes a Celtic rainforest in the mountains to remind you that things are ok. And that when your mum tells you you need to leave the house she's right.
Tycanol woods and Carnedd Meibion Owen yesterday - with water and acorns falling from the sky! #pembrokeshire #preseli #sirbenfro
Ancient Celtic temperate rainforest. With beautiful oaks, lichens mosses and rocks. Acorns falling from all sides in the wind. No wonder it's a SSSI (site of special scientific interest) View towards Newport with a trigpoint in the foreground Carnedd Meibion Owen looking towards Foel Drygarn.
September 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
daearegwr-dryslyd.bsky.social
I went fossil hunting down Abereiddi today. As it's #fossilfriday here's the finds- plenty of tuning fork graptolites (didymograptus) which Abereiddi is famous for. And my first trilobite!! It may only be half of one and it may be just the trace but it's definitely made my day!
#geology #pembs
Various pieces of shale containing dozens of tuning fork graptolites A trace fossil of a trilobite. It's about the size of my little fingernail
August 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
daearegwr-dryslyd.bsky.social
It's official - I'm doing a PhD at @durhamearthsci.bsky.social!! To celebrate here's the rock that started this 20 year obsession with all things geology. It may not be the prettiest but this little floating rock blew my tiny mind (and still does). Roll on October I can't wait!
A lump of pale tan coloured pumice.
July 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
daearegwr-dryslyd.bsky.social
A spontaneous trip to Tenby (a cardinal sin amongst locals in the summer - always far too busy) but an opportunity to look at more South Pembrokeshire rocks! Part of the Bishopton Mudstone Formation formed during the carboniferous period. This county's a geologist's heaven
#geology #pembs
A beautifully folded piece of rock sticking out of the sand on the beach. With barnacles, seaweed,and little rock pools. All in bright sunshine. More rock sticking out of the beach! With layers tilted around 30° (at an eyeball measure) covered in barnacles and lichen with a high tide mask around a 3rd of the way up.
July 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
daearegwr-dryslyd.bsky.social
Freshwater East to Manorbier! Unplanned, spectacular and makes me glad to be back home. Did it take us 3 times longer than it should have? Yes. Was this because we kept stopping to look at cool rocks, plants, insects and ruins? Yes. Did I take loads of photos of rocks? No comment
#geology #coastpath
Very cool old red sandstone cliffs with amazing folds on a lovely sunny day Me in my natural habitat Looking back the way we came with a dramatic sky and sea
July 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
daearegwr-dryslyd.bsky.social
Heading back up north this morning, and what a way to end my visit home than a spontaneous Preselis trip!Imagine this scene with swooping skylarks, a light wind and the earthy smells of summer (and sprinkle in a discussion of hillforts and possible origins of Carnedd Meibion Owen for good measure)
A picture taken in the mountains of Pembrokeshire. Has a view of the sea and Carningli in the background with a beautiful and dramatic sky and sunset over the sea Rocks and Bracken at Tycanol with the sea in the background and a break in the clouds in the distance.
June 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
daearegwr-dryslyd.bsky.social
This is my favourite dinosaur (no idea why, I've just had a toy one for longer than I can remember) and it's so cool to see how our ideas of what they were has changed over the last 200 years!
markwitton.bsky.social Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · Feb 10
Iguanodon was named 200 years ago today, so here's (AFAIK) the first time it appeared in #paleoart: an 1833 watercolour/pencil study "Reptiles Restored, the Remains of Which Are To Be Found in a Fossil State in Tilgate Forest, Sussex" by George Scharf. That's Iguanodon on the left. #Sciart thread...
Watercolour and pencil sketch showing a Cretaceous landscape as understood in 1833. A lizard-like Iguanodon is shown at left alongside a large palm tree, its tail whirling over rolling hills in the distance. A meandering river bisects the scene, with other animals along its banks. These are, from the top down, a swimming plesiosaur in the stream, a monitor lizard-like Megalosaurus, stork-like birds, the spiky Hylaeosaurus, another swimming plesiosaur, a somewhat dog-like crocodile, and two turtles. The right side of the image shows fern-like plants, reeds and more palm trees.
February 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
daearegwr-dryslyd.bsky.social
Pretty much 5 years to the day I'm back in Frosterley and the weather couldn't be more different! I never thought I'd be in the same place without cold weather gear! Brilliant to be back - even if the pub we all sheltered in doesn't seem to be a pub anymore.
#geology #rocks
07/02/2020 --> 06/02/2025
A load of students in hi-vis vests doing fieldwork in a very very cold abandoned quarry in Frosterley in NE England Me in a comparatively warmer Frosterley quarry (looking as my mother put it 'like a cool dude') in the sun.
February 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM