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Good things are happening, too. 24 BSc students took to the Connacht hills last week, following #Quaternary greats Francis Synge & Hal Borns & learning glacial-geomorphic mapping, beryllium-10 sampling, drone survey, & stone skimming. No chatgpt screwing this up! #geography @uniofgalway.bsky.social

Been a long time in the making (9 years 😬), but our new paper on long-term behaviour of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet derived from moraines at Otway Massif is out in Climate of the Past: cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
Christmas 2015 atop Mom Peak, cold as hell, happy times!

Falls Foot landslide on #Ingleborough, picked out by snow, is a textbook example of mass movement. Thx to my brother, who took this shot last week. We dated the slide with 10Be to 12.5ka (Younger Dryas), bang on David Johnson's estimate in his book 'Ingleborough'. Climate influencing geomorphology?

Surveying the shore platform at Rinvyle, #Connemara, last week on foot & by drone for our #iCRAG project on coastal erosion. The Dalradian rock platform is backed by a Pleistocene drumlin, the ongoing retreat of which reveals stunning geomorphic structures. @uniofgalway.bsky.social #geography

#Geography MSc team bushwhacked to the southern end of Lough Corrib in glorious sunshine (!) to collect a sediment core extending back to the end of the ice age in Galway, 17,000 years ago. Lowest 1m is stunning rhythmites from Heinrich Stadial 1 meltdown @uniofgalway.bsky.social #Galway

Wrapped up teaching last week w/ a visit to Galway's unique coastal geomorph. Ice-moulded granite overlain by drowned pine forest (doi.org/10.1177/0959...), overlain by drowned peat bog, capped with modern storm beach. ~20kyr compressed into one tiny strip of coast!
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Team Galway (& Northwestern Uni) back in the field last week, this time mapping & sampling in the shadow of Ireland's lofty Corrán Tuathail. Last glacial termination beautifully manifested in those erratics & moraines; we came home 60kg richer in samples bound for 10Be glory. Next up, Donegal!

Fabulous examples of mushroom stones in a field just north of the University of Galway campus. Geologic evidence of palaeo-lake levels? Probably. Or another mystery of the karst world (fairies)? It's actually contentious! Either way, a very cool, very tangible find for our Geography BSc students.

We celebrate two whole rain-free days on Achill Island, Co. Mayo, conducting fieldwork for our SFI/GSI-funded Frontiers project. Glacial geology team is complete, so we're hitting HARD the mapping of Pleistocene deposits & sampling for beryllium-10 dating. Thx Jasmin for the pics! www.jasminshah.com