https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Cormac_McGinley/113675170676192806 Cormac_McGinley@mastodon.sdf.org - An galactic scene of spiraling planets and glowing comets trapped in a shiny pebble.
Made from 300 million year old Goniatite fossils in a piece of ancient delta sediment.
County Clare, Ireland.
Cormacscoast.com walking tours
#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #irishfossils #goniatite #burrenandcliffsofmohergeopark #atlanticgeoparks #Ireland
Glaciers moved rocks, fossilized #ancient #coral, bedrock and soil throughout what is now Michigan millions of years ago, carving out the Great Lakes and depositing a wealth of natural treasures beneath them. Over time, the waves churned these waters and in turn polished pieces into rocks of all shapes, sizes and configurations—including Petoskey stones.
In the early 1900s, there were mentions of Petoskey stone in regional newspapers, but these referred to rocks harvested from shoreline gravel banks by the Petoskey Stone & Lime Company (incorporated in 1904), not the identifiable hexagon laden stones coveted and collected today.
One of the earliest printed accounts of actual “Petoskey stones” appeared in a handful of newspapers in October 1923—including the Palladium-Item of Richmond, Indiana and The Ithaca Journal in Ithaca, New York—as part of a Q&A section, authored by Information Bureau Director Frederick J. Haskin out of Washington D.C.
#Petoskey #stone is silicified #fossil and is polished like agate. Various polishing powders, such as tin-oxide, chromium-oxide and iron-oxide are used.
Source: https://bylinetimes.com/2024/07/25/cambridge-university-fossil-fuel-donatons/
#news #protest #education #study #oil #economy #finance #money
#environment #fossil #fuels #airlines
Flying is considered one of the most carbon-intensive activities, but the aviation industry is expected to grow steadily over the coming decades despite efforts to contain the climate crisis.
https://apnews.com/article/germany-frankfurt-airport-climate-protest-flights-fbc476e30fbb9a5005e49e6614ef4686
[my ‘minor’ in my MSc Geology at the University of Auckland, NZ was in palæontology, and I have had an interest ever since; total aside – is what I call my temp/junk/working files, anyone else?]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #NewZealand #fossil #fossils #database #opendata #FRED #palæontology #paleontology #palaeontology #onlineportal #standards #records #publicrecords #geology #stratigraphy #sedimentology #scientifichistory #fossilrecord #samples #sampling
@gnsscience
There is no #action, just promises. As long as #fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest #fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.
#news #fuel #heat #heatwave #earth #climate #environment #future #nature #emissions #co2
Bereits vor mehr als 45 000 Jahren breiteten sich moderne Menschen im nördlichen Mitteleuropa aus. Obwohl es damals bitterkalt war. Das belegen Neufunde – aus Thüringen.#Homosapiens #ModernerMensch #AnatomischmodernerMensch #Neandertaler #Ilsenhöhle #Thüringen #Hublin #MPI #Leipzig #EVA #Archäogenetik #Proteomik #Isotope #Protein #DNA #Erbgut #Knochen #Zähne #Fossil #Höhle #Ranis #Deutschland #Anthropologie #Altsteinzeit #Paläolithikum #Archäologie #Grabung #Steingerät #Steinwerkzeug #Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician #Technokomplex #Kultur
Homo sapiens kam Jahrtausende früher
Lichtsammelnde Strukturen in 1,75 Milliarden Jahre alten Fossilien erhellen die Evolution der Photosynthese – und ihre Rolle bei der Entstehung der modernen Erdatmosphäre.#Fotosynthese #Cyanobakterien #Fossil #Fossilien #Mikrofossilien #Uratmosphäre #Sauerstoff #Thylakoid #Thylakoidmembran #Biologie
Bislang ältester fossiler Beleg für Fotosynthese gefunden
Lichtsammelnde Strukturen in 1,75 Milliarden Jahre alten Fossilien erhellen die Evolution der Photosynthese – und ihre Rolle bei der Entstehung der modernen Erdatmosphäre.#Fotosynthese #Cyanobakterien #Fossil #Fossilien #Mikrofossilien #Uratmosphäre #Sauerstoff #Thylakoid #Thylakoidmembran #Biologie
Bislang ältesten fossilen Beleg für Fotosynthese gefunden
Source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/greenpeace-shell-lawsuit
"I will stand up in scourt and fight this; and if Shell refuses to stop #drilling, I refuse to stop fighting for #climate #justice," one #activist named in the #suit said.
The most powerful have always tried to abuse the law for their own purposes in order to prevent protests against #injustice. This has forced the protest #movement into the #underground and strengthened #resistance. In the French #Revolution, the powerful were ultimately surprised by the pent-up #anger against the abuse of the #law.
#politics #economy #news #problem #activism #environment #nature #oil #fossil #fuel #future #earth #finance #money #capitalism
