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E. María Moreno Chico
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Geóloga ⚒️ PhD - Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Aficionada a perder todo en el campo.
Y nada más...soy buena gente.





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brandontbishop.bsky.social
One very weird thing about the Rocky Mountains is that since the 1950s or 1960s, we've known they had to have spent most of their geologic history buried under several kilometers worth of their own eroded material until <10 million years ago.

Neat recent paper on this here:
doi.org/10.1029/2023...
Block diagram from linked paper showing the evolution of part of the Wyoming Rocky Mountains. At the left, the situation around 50 million years, just after the end of mountain uplift is shown. The mountains stand high above the valleys around them. At center, the situation around ~15 million years ago is shown, the basin is now completely full of material eroded from the mountains and no significant topographical difference exists between basin and mountain top. At right, the present situation is shown, all of the material originally eroded from the mountains has been removed by a second round of erosion, the mountain peaks, some now eroded flat on top, once again stand high above the basin.
June 21, 2024 at 4:58 AM
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spahn711.bsky.social
Fresh Earth (Iceland, 2022). #photography
Bright yellow-orange lava erupting from a fairly new, black spatter cone. A small, overflowing lava lake fills the foreground, and brown rocky hills loom behind the cone.
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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callanbentley.bsky.social
One of the samples that I was working on today, a hefty slab of "Duke Stone" metaignimbrite from the Piedmont of North Carolina. This is the rock that was used to build the Gothic architecture of Duke University. Made in a pre-Appalachian volcanic eruption, it got squeezed as Pangaea was assembled.⚒️
September 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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natureportfolio.nature.com
A paper in Nature presents evidence for a solid inner core in Mars, detected by NASA’s InSight mission. go.nature.com/3VCwHpj 🔭 🧪
This is figure 4, which shows a comparison between the interior structures of Earth and Mars.
September 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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pavementgeology.bsky.social
Ordovician Orthoceratite Limestone from Öland in the orangery at Hampton Court Palace. Large orthoceras fossils #urbangeology
Chequerboard slabs of Öland Limestone with large orthoceras fossils. The slabs are ~ 30x30 cm. My foot is in the photo for scale Chequerboard slabs of Öland Limestone with large orthoceras fossils. The slabs are ~ 30x30 cm. My foot is in the photo for scale Chequerboard slabs of Öland Limestone with large orthoceras fossils. The slabs are ~ 30x30 cm. A view of the red and grey limestone chequer board paving in the orangery at Hampton Court Palace.
September 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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nadwgab.bsky.social
166 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Titanite
- A nesosilicate
- Aka sphene
- Can contain rare earth elements (e.g. cerium, yttrium)
- Common in intermediate/felsic igneous rocks and in metamorphic rocks
- A source of titanium dioxide which is used in pigments, etc.
- Named for its titanium content #minerals
A crust of honey brown, twinned titanite crystals. From Capelinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London. A group of flat, twinned titanite crystals resembling butterfly wings. With apatite and chlorite. From Val Maggia, Switzerland. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London. A group of dark brown titanite crystals which are elongate prisms with pointy tips and beige striations. From Zermatt, Switzerland. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
June 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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geolusal.bsky.social
Una vez hubo tapires, cocos🐊 o 🐢🐢 gigantes caminando por Salamanca. Sus fósiles se encuentran en rocas de hace unos 40 millones de años.
Soy Ismael Pinilla y este es mi #HiloTesis sobre ecosistemas y paisajes del pasado
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June 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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calamitaman.bsky.social
There's plenty of fish in the Ocean

biotite-fishes happily swimming to the east in a sea of recrystallized quartz and feldspar.
FOV 3 mm CPL

#geology #thinsection #mylonite #granite
mylonitic granite
June 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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ksircombe.bsky.social
Columnar! Basalt! ⚒️🧪
The image depicts a pathway constructed from hexagonal stone tiles, bordered by large, vertical basalt columns on both sides. These columns have a natural, rugged look and are grouped together in clusters. In the background, there is a bench and some greenery, including trees and bushes. The scene appears to be part of a landscaped garden or park area.
June 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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nadwgab.bsky.social
141 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Libethenite:
- A rare copper phosphate hydroxide mineral
- Found in the oxidised zone of copper ore deposits
- Named after its type locality Ľubietová (German name = Libethen) in Slovakia #minerals
A beige quartz matrix filled with dark green libethenite crystals. From Ray, Pinal County, Arizona, USA. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London. Lustrous dark green (almost black) libethenite crystals on a matrix. From Nchanga Mine, Zambia. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
May 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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djbirddanerd.bsky.social
Taphonomic and reworking processes isolating #cephalopod septa and chamber #fillings: doi.org/10.18261/let...

#paleontology #paleobiology #taphonomy #phragmocone #cephalopods
Fig. 13. Illustration of some of the taphonomic processes discussed with images of the fossil results. a, b, Early Devonian of the Tafilalt, Morocco. c, Middle Triassic of central Europe. d, Middle Jurassic of the Causses, France. e, Early Cretaceous of Heligoland, Germany. https://doi.org/10.18261/let.58.2.1
April 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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eldiario.es
Andalucía es la comunidad con más pisos turísticos y suma 88.435. Sin embargo, Canarias y Balears son las que mayor porcentaje de estas viviendas acumulan www.eldiario.es/economia/map...
May 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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igeociencias.bsky.social
La Geoda gigante de Pulpí se encuentra en la provincia de Almería, en España. Se localiza en el interior de la Mina Rica, una antigua mina de hierro, plomo. Constituye un fenómeno único a nivel mundial por sus dimensiones y transparencia de los cristales de yeso que la tapizan
May 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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geologoenapuros.bsky.social
⚒️​🪨​Hoy hablamos el el diario Público sobre las tierras raras: "Las tierras raras: ni tierras, ni raras, pero vitales en la guerra arancelaria entre China y EEUU". Si os apetece darle una lectura, os esperamos aquí: acorta.es/rjBg02
Las tierras raras: ni tierras, ni raras, pero vitales en la guerra arancelaria entre China y EEUU
Así son los 17 elementos químicos que sostienen parte de la tecnología moderna y que, en plena tensión tarifaria entre Washington y Pekín, se han convertido en un arma geopolítica....
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April 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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serpenillus.bsky.social
A pair of Diplocaulus magnicornis swimming in a flooded Early Permian forest alongside a bunch of other animals like a small Eryops larvae

Diplocaulus magnicornis was a lepospondyl (which is a weird, likely polyphyletic group) that is famous for its weird boomerang shaped head.
Illustration of a pair of Diplocaulus swimming in a flooded forest alongside other animals like an Eryops larva an ancient shark and a lungfish
April 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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geologoenapuros.bsky.social
⚙️🌐 De los océanos a tu vehículo eléctrico: los nódulos polimetálicos contienen elementos críticos como níquel, cobre y cobalto. 📱🔋 Exploramos sus aplicaciones, los retos que supone su extracción y a que riesgos a los que nos enfrentamos. 🌱🚀
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April 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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geohenning.bsky.social
Gneiss #UrbanGeology! ⚒️
geology.bsky.social Andrew Alden @geology.bsky.social · Mar 30
How about this gneiss?
vertical panel of tightly folded orange/gray gneiss with gold address "2701" at top
March 31, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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sapinuwa.bsky.social
Last but not the least there are (rudist?) fossils on some limestone columns 😃
#urbangeology🏙️🪨
A column with a Byzantine capital Closeup of the same
April 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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eldiario.es
La empresa tenía licencia para un proyecto de investigación pero en el tercer nivel de la mina donde ocurrió el accidente laboral, en el concejo asturiano de Degaña, solo tenía autorización para la retirada de materiales
Un juzgado de Asturias investiga posibles responsabilidades penales en la muerte de cinco trabajadores en la mina Cerredo
La empresa tenía licencia para un proyecto de investigación pero en el tercer nivel de la mina donde ocurrió el accidente laboral, en el concejo asturiano de Degaña, solo tenía autorización para la re...
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April 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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ctill.bsky.social
I'm very excited to share my new paper out today! It's about a a new method to construct ‘magmatic trees’, which illustrate all the processes that formed a particular igneous rock unit or eruption.

urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Magmatic trees: a method to compare processes between igneous systems | Volcanica
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March 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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vitoninigo.bsky.social
Un gran día en Madrid. Ante el golpe a la investigación, al derecho a la educación y a la igualdad de oportunidades, respondemos con democracia: con asambleas en cada centro, en cada universidad y facultad, con unidad en la calle, con reivindicación de derechos
#23F #SalvemosLaPublica
February 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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menoslectivas.bsky.social
No podemos dejar que un sistema construido para todas se desmantele. Luchemos por mantener un sistema del que estemos orgullosas 💪🏽

Nos vemos este domingo 23F en Atocha

#SalvemosLaPublica

#TenemosunPlan
February 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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menoslectivas.bsky.social
El domingo 23 de febrero salimos a teñir de verde Madrid... Nos hemos juntado toda la comunidad educativa para marcar la dirección hacia una huelga educativa si los recortes, la privatización y el desmantelamiento no cesan .

#salvemoslapublica

SALVEMOS LA EDUCACIÓN PÚBLICA.
23F. ATOCHA - SOL
February 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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menoslectivas.bsky.social
Debimos hacer fotos a los centros cuando estaban bonitos y mantenidos.

La Consejería de Educación del PP de Ayuso los abandona y se caen a pedazos.

El 23F tomaremos las calles para exigir condiciones dignas para trabajadoras y estudiantes.

#salvamoslapublica

No permitamos que se normalice 👇
February 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM