Oh no! Google Scholar is indexing young Earth creationist references?!

I was indeed there!🤘💀

Did my second @skypeascientist.bsky.social visit with a class in South Korea last night. It was a lot of fun and I think I'm getting better at it. Kids can ask some of the hardest questions that come out of left field though

Cephalopod fossils from the Middle Ordovician Table Point Formation Newfoundland, Canada ⚒️🧪 #FossilFriday

Late entry for #ThinSectionThursday: An photomicrograph of an ooid grainstone from the Jurassic Smackover Formation of Louisiana, USA. This pretty thin section is from our teaching collection. 🧪⚒️

Limestone packed with crinoid fossils (living up to its Dunham classification) from Mississippian Tin Mountain Limestone from just outside Death Valley, California, USA #FossilFriday

A smiley face made of trilobite fossil fragments in a matrix glauconitic, peloidal grainstone. Photomicrograph taken under cross polarized light. Cambrian Shady Formation, Virginia, USA. #ThinSectionThursday

Clearly outside of my scientific lane, but got a chance to catch some cicada nymphs emerging from the ground, climbing a tree, and emerging from their exoskeletons as adults yesterday. An analogy for the beginning of the semester?

Taking the weekend off before classes start. Visiting Warm Springs, Virginia and got to see some nice microbial mats in the streams fed by the springs. Definitely some cyanobacteria and sulfide oxidizers in them. ⚒️

On the drive back from doing fieldwork out west, I finally got to visit this big hole in the ground (Meteor Crater) in Arizona for the first time. It was made by the Cañon Diablo Meteor (now Meteorite) around 50,000 years ago. ⚒️

More invertebrate fossils found this summer:

The very smol-est orthocone cephalopod from the Ordovician Juab Formation of western Utah. If you look close you can see the chambers are variably filled with calcite cement and carbonate mud. You can also see the siphuncle toward the narrow end. ⚒️

More fossils from field work this summer. These are receptaculites from the Middle Ordovician Pogonip Group of Southern Nevada. Receptaculites are an extinct group of organisms commonly called sunflower corals, but were likely calcareous algae. ⚒️ 🧪

Figured I'd share some more photos from field work earlier in the summer since the start of the semester is rapidly approaching.

This a block of limestone from the lower Fillmore Formation in western Utah filled with tons of Ordovician fossil goodness: trilobites, broyzoans, and criniods. ⚒️

I figured I'd make my first post here a cool picture. Microbialites from the Cambrian Hellnmaria Member of the Notch Peak Formation of western Utah. Microbialites sedimentary deposits made by the action of microorganisms.