Rose Carlson
@rosecarlson.bsky.social
🌎 Earth & Planetary Sciences undergrad @ Northwestern. I ❤️ rocks, conservation, & deep time ⛰️🏕️🚲🧪🥾. Currently studying OAE2 🌊 in the WIS 🐚. Fan of stromatolites and sci comm. #ScienceIsForEveryone. She/her/hers.
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Rose Carlson
@rosecarlson.bsky.social
· Dec 1
Fun #LateCretaceous 🌊 cameo in #Wicked! Elphaba's probably standing on a bunch of fossils here - these chalk cliffs are largely made up of the compacted skeletons of small marine orgs (phytoplankton) that lived in a shallow sea here (Sussex) tens of millions of yrs ago.
My bike is temporarily out of commission, so I've been walking everywhere lately. This has become a serious problem because every five paces I have to stop and examine the ornamental specimens of dolomite that sporadically line Northwestern's paths. This one has a fossil! & burrow marks ⚒️
January 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
My bike is temporarily out of commission, so I've been walking everywhere lately. This has become a serious problem because every five paces I have to stop and examine the ornamental specimens of dolomite that sporadically line Northwestern's paths. This one has a fossil! & burrow marks ⚒️
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: Oh that’s my fault. It’s normal.
#GeologistProblems #geology
Me: Oh that’s my fault. It’s normal.
#GeologistProblems #geology
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: Oh, that's just a crystal lattice defect #GeologistProblems
Me: Oh, that's just a crystal lattice defect #GeologistProblems
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: no record is 100% stratigraphically complete.
Me: no record is 100% stratigraphically complete.
December 20, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: Oh that’s my fault. It’s normal.
#GeologistProblems #geology
Me: Oh that’s my fault. It’s normal.
#GeologistProblems #geology
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I'm honored to see this essay move through geoscience and paleo-climatological circles. Thanks for reading and sharing.
www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...
www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...
Proxies for Justice
The climate history of tropical regions has been chronically understudied. Correcting the record will require new methods and new mindsets.
www.sciencehistory.org
December 17, 2024 at 2:35 PM
I'm honored to see this essay move through geoscience and paleo-climatological circles. Thanks for reading and sharing.
www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...
www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...
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Roundabout. I came across this old oxbow (a rincon) via satellite Maps and thought it might look cool from my drone. Confirmed! Scenes like this always remind me of the incredible power of water, and the immense timescales at play.
December 17, 2024 at 4:44 AM
Roundabout. I came across this old oxbow (a rincon) via satellite Maps and thought it might look cool from my drone. Confirmed! Scenes like this always remind me of the incredible power of water, and the immense timescales at play.
#FossilFriday! Shrimp burrows (skolithos) in an outcrop of Oneata Dolomite (>400 million years old) near Rockford, IL. Top of the outcrop also glacially polished.
#fossils #dolomite #geology
#fossils #dolomite #geology
December 14, 2024 at 1:15 AM
#FossilFriday! Shrimp burrows (skolithos) in an outcrop of Oneata Dolomite (>400 million years old) near Rockford, IL. Top of the outcrop also glacially polished.
#fossils #dolomite #geology
#fossils #dolomite #geology
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Plagioclase peridotite from the Mariana Trench- a Rosetta Stone for decoding thermal history and oxygen fugacity conditions in the mantle. Photo by Dr Nick Dygert
This sample was taken at 6500m from the Mariana Trench using #ROVJason, owned by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
This sample was taken at 6500m from the Mariana Trench using #ROVJason, owned by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
December 8, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Plagioclase peridotite from the Mariana Trench- a Rosetta Stone for decoding thermal history and oxygen fugacity conditions in the mantle. Photo by Dr Nick Dygert
This sample was taken at 6500m from the Mariana Trench using #ROVJason, owned by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
This sample was taken at 6500m from the Mariana Trench using #ROVJason, owned by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
#FridayFold: plastically-deformed phyllite at Point of Rocks, Baraboo, WI. Taken on the freshman year field trip that started it all. 🪨 #geology
December 7, 2024 at 3:20 AM
#FridayFold: plastically-deformed phyllite at Point of Rocks, Baraboo, WI. Taken on the freshman year field trip that started it all. 🪨 #geology
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With glaciers worldwide in retreat, you don't typically see moraine building. But at Yahtse Glacier, during my PhD project, we got a great look at the process responsible for so many critical reconstructions of glacier change and paleoclimate.
Enjoy! ⚒️🧪
Enjoy! ⚒️🧪
December 6, 2024 at 12:14 AM
With glaciers worldwide in retreat, you don't typically see moraine building. But at Yahtse Glacier, during my PhD project, we got a great look at the process responsible for so many critical reconstructions of glacier change and paleoclimate.
Enjoy! ⚒️🧪
Enjoy! ⚒️🧪
It's a stump, it's a rock, it's... BOTH??? Super cool specimen of petrified wood we ran into today while dropping my sister off @ OSU school of forestry. #RocksAreCool #GoBeavs 🦫🧡 #Geology
December 1, 2024 at 11:33 PM
It's a stump, it's a rock, it's... BOTH??? Super cool specimen of petrified wood we ran into today while dropping my sister off @ OSU school of forestry. #RocksAreCool #GoBeavs 🦫🧡 #Geology
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Surround yourself with the kind of people who treat the Oxford comma like the wondrous beauty that it is.
December 1, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Surround yourself with the kind of people who treat the Oxford comma like the wondrous beauty that it is.
Fun #LateCretaceous 🌊 cameo in #Wicked! Elphaba's probably standing on a bunch of fossils here - these chalk cliffs are largely made up of the compacted skeletons of small marine orgs (phytoplankton) that lived in a shallow sea here (Sussex) tens of millions of yrs ago.
December 1, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Fun #LateCretaceous 🌊 cameo in #Wicked! Elphaba's probably standing on a bunch of fossils here - these chalk cliffs are largely made up of the compacted skeletons of small marine orgs (phytoplankton) that lived in a shallow sea here (Sussex) tens of millions of yrs ago.
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Geology: putting the death of your civilization in perspective by inviting you to contemplate time marked by the slow dying of mullosks and Unspeakable Toothy Horrors* across half a billion years.
(*Conodonts)
(*Conodonts)
@edsolomon.bsky.social you just deleted a big bang joke but no shit, one of the ways I have found to cope with The Death Of America is listening to podcasts about geology and ancient marine life where they talk in millions of years. Thinking about extinction events puts things into perspective.
November 30, 2024 at 7:05 AM
Geology: putting the death of your civilization in perspective by inviting you to contemplate time marked by the slow dying of mullosks and Unspeakable Toothy Horrors* across half a billion years.
(*Conodonts)
(*Conodonts)
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Black Friday Deal Alert!
Enjoy our current atmospheric CO₂ because we'll never see it this low again!
Enjoy our current atmospheric CO₂ because we'll never see it this low again!
November 29, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Black Friday Deal Alert!
Enjoy our current atmospheric CO₂ because we'll never see it this low again!
Enjoy our current atmospheric CO₂ because we'll never see it this low again!