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Dan Condon
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geologist at the British Geological Survey and National Environmental Isotope Facility. Parent 👨‍👧
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Dropped off the kit for Science in the Park tomorrow Wollaton Hall, Nottingham. We’ll be there representing @britgeosurvey.bsky.social talking about all things geological time #datingrocks
Sign for Science in the park, a blue circle with a white arrow with text saying ‘More this way’ Two piles of leaflets for the science in the Park Stamp trail, set on top of a table cloth with different elements on it (symbol, atomic number etc) The entrance/front of Wollaton Hall, home to the Nottingham Natural History Museum and Wayne Manor in The Dark Knight Rises film #batman
March 8, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Pleasantly surprised to see @gernon.bsky.social and colleagues research mentioned in my kids science magazine (Oyla) in their article about greenhouse gases and climate change 👍👍👍
Photo of a magazine article, a text box placed next to an active volcano with ash/gas emitting. Text box text: New research has debunked the myth that human influence is a mere trifle compared to that of volcanoes. In August of 2021, University of Southampton professor THOMAS GERNON, in an article on global chemical weathering published in the journal Nature Geoscience, presented calculations revealing that humans' annual carbon emissions are 150 times greater than the combined output of every volcano on the planet. As a result, the concentration of CO, in the atmosphere today has hit a record high, unseen in the past three million years.
March 5, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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👍👍👍… I had to google this to see which types of fun I had been missing out on, turns out there is even a fourth type, probably the other worst type of fun…

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Plot with four boxes showing type 1 fun top right, type two fun top left, type three fun bottom left and type four fun bottom right. The x-axis is labelled ‘considered fun now?’, no on the left and yes on the right. The y-axis is labelled ‘considered fun later?’ No on the bottom and yes on the top. Writing this description was type 3 fun, maybe type 2.5…
December 5, 2023 at 8:36 PM
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Ditto….
Screen show of a message from a website showing that the link/URL was incorrect
November 15, 2023 at 11:06 AM
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Recreational and historical uses of the Millstone Grit, Stanage Edge, Peak District, UK
View of Stanage Edge, an outcrop of Carboniferous age Millstone Grit with people walking along the top of the outcrop with extends into the distance, and people at the base who are climbing the cliffs that at are ten to twenty metres high View of Hope Valley, Peak District, seen between two outcrops of the Millstone Grit, with a human for scale Picture of six millstones that were produced from the millstone grit that outcrops in the background Picture of a human (~1.5 metres tall) standing on a millstone and examining the lichen growing in another millstone that is upright
November 11, 2023 at 11:26 PM
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Spent a day visiting Danmarks og Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse (GEUS), the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. I was fortunate to give a talk and then spend the afternoon seeing what that are doing and talking about how we can collaborate. Maybe my concluding slide was too subtle 🤔
Geologist from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland pointing at a location on a colourful geological map of part of East Greenland Logo for the Danmarks og Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse (GEUS), the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Slide form a power t presentation with text concluding the talk. Four conclusions listed, each about collaboration
November 1, 2023 at 8:14 PM
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Then I’ll Google something else, or pick a few more zircon instead 🔬🪨
Zircon (from a granite) separate in transmitted light. Field of view is 2.7 mm wide
October 28, 2023 at 1:11 PM