Silvio Ferrero
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Silvio Ferrero
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Dad/bookworm/petrologist/inclusionist/traveller. I love small inclusions and their secrets, especially when found inside hot&melted metamorphic rocks.
Office for the day - looking at high grade metamorphism and crustal melting in the Asinara island
March 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Mongolfiere a Mondovì (CN) peccato per il meteo www.aeroclubmondovi.it
January 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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⚒️Asked ChatGPT to "draw a picture of a subduction zone".
Some absolutely fantastic stuff in here... the more you look the better it gets. Gonna show this to my intro class and have them list "ten things wrong" with this picture.

HINT: its pretty much all wrong😂
January 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Our deep-time emissary, Marcia Bjornerud, takes us on a metamorphic journey.

⚒️🧪 geology GIS
Metamorphic rocks go on deep journeys we never can | Aeon Essays
Metamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and revealing the restless nature of Earth
aeon.co
December 18, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Back in Prague, this time for the PhD of Tereza Zelinkova... Excellent work!
December 17, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Microstructures alert at EGU 2025! Come to share your work on Microstructures and the stories they tell us!!
Reminder #EGU2025: If your research involves microstructure and focuses on igneous, metamorphic, or ore geology, please consider submitting an abstract. We have great invited speakers: Dr. Rüdiger Killian (University Halle) and Dr. Marine Boulanger (Université Clermont-Auvergne). ⚒️🔬🪨
Interested in rock microstructure? Join us in Vienna this April in our session GMPV2.2, "Rock microstructure as a tool for understanding igneous and metamorphic processes" at #EGU25 ⚒️ 🪨 🔬
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
December 3, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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I love this
October 25, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Fed up with X, a nice microraman map for my first post on Bluesky
November 18, 2024 at 7:53 PM