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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.
www.gondwanatalks.com/l/fuertevent...
#soilscience #soil #soilrocks #suelo
April 3, 2025 at 2:53 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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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.
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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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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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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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Weten jullie toevallig wat deze kleine korreltjes zijn? Bodem deeltjes naar boven gebracht door #mieren ofzo? Dit is bij Madrid, Spanje, onder kurkeiken. Dank u. Check mijn blog over #geologie en #bodem🤎 www.gondwanatalks.com
Foto door Kathelijne Bonne, bodem met dode bladeren, eikels en plantjes. Bodemdeeltjes die getuigen van biologische activiteit.
January 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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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
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A few things about myself and why I started GondwanaTalks.
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www.gondwanatalks.com/en/about/
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#scienceblog #sciencenews #scientist #geology #planet #earth #climate #life #soil
January 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Moon and Venus early Januari in #Belgium, an amazing sight. See better pics of the night sky taken by my uncle Johan Bonne with his telescope. 🔭
#amateurastronomy #telescope #space #stars #astronomer #sciencerocks #spacescience #gondwanatalks #gondwana ☄️✨
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January 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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As California is ablaze with fire, have a reread of this post I wrote in 2022, as it is still valid today. On wildfires in the geological past and how we created the #Pyrocene. 🔥 #ageoffire #wildfire #californiafire
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January 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Thanks for following and supporting GondwanaTalks, closing its fifth year. Best wishes! ✨🎉🥂 Www.gondwanatalks.com.
December 30, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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We live on an ocean planet, occurred to me once more as I walked along a strangely quiet sea in #Belgium. Read my post on #oceans, marine life including #whales with legs and #belugas. 🌊🐋🐟💙 www.gondwanatalks.com/l/ocean-plan...
December 27, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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How the moon was formed. A Mars-sized proto-planet, #Theia collides with Earth. How did scientists get to this hypothesis? www.gondwanatalks.com/l/origin-of-... 🔥⚡☄️(Artistic image conceptualized by K. Bonne and made using OpenAI's DALL-E model). #space #earth #solarsystem #science #planets
An artistic representation of the collision between Theia, a large planetary body, and Earth. The image shows a dramatic cosmic scene with Theia approaching Earth at high speed, causing a fiery outburst of debris.
December 19, 2024 at 10:45 AM