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#Minnesota Gov Walz issues executive order on copper-nickel PGE mining. May affect development of the Twin Metals deposit in the 1.1 billion yr old Duluth mafic Complex of the Midcontinent Rift. #geology

Walz executive order moves to block copper mining near the Boundary Waters
Four months after Congress reversed a ban on mining over about 350 square miles in the watershed of the northeastern Minnesota wilderness, Gov. Tim Walz has issued a state executive order to block copper-nickel mining in the area.

Metamorph
(Metamorphic rock in the former bed of the Gepatschferner glacier in the Weißkamm of the Alps. Maybe some form of paragneiss with hematite or oxidized iron compounds?)
#NaturePhotography #Geology

🚨Job Alert! 🚨 postdoc: amino acid geochronology at Northern Arizona University #geology #geochemistry

Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities for remote work are rare. This position is subject to the availability of funding.  Driving a vehicle on behalf of the university is anticipated to be a regular part of this position. Arizona Administrative Code Fleet Safety Policy requires all employees who drive on university business become au…

Selkirk Member of the Ordovician Red River Formation, aka Tyndall Stone commercially, as seen in Winnipeg, Canada.
Complex 3D burrows are interpreted as Thalassinoides; the color difference is due to dolomite vs calcite matrix. #FossilFriday urban #geology

Fascinating video by Rob Butler about analyzing & visualizing geological folds (also one of my current research topics)
#Geology

🚨Job Alert ‼️🚨 Actually, three (3) openings:
1) Adjunct Prof with industry experience in economic #geology and ore systems science
2) Lecturer, Sr Lecturer, or Assoc Prof, hydrogeology, geometallurgy, etc
3) Computational #geophysics

🚨Job Alert !!🚨 Univ Iowa
Structural #geology and tectonics faculty position; teaching structural, field courses/camp, etc. Expertise: ‘Hard-rock’ Earth and planetary processes, petrology, geo(thermo) chronology, geochemistry, critical minerals, etc.
🧪⚒️ (h/t ts.egu.eu on bsky)

300th Birthday of James Hutton!
Special Exhibition at Blair Castle, #Scotland, "part of a nation wide celebration of the tercentenary of James #Hutton (1726-1797), the polymath and founder of modern #geology

"Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte" in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. ⚒️🧪
"helping to fill a 10 million year interval with sparse fossil information about modern fish evolution. Among the findings include the earliest known fossil skeletons of jack, a type of sportfish, moonfish and pipefish, the family to which seahorses belong."
#geology

Fossil discovery fills in missing information about modern fish evolution
After an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, there is very little evidence of fish in the fossil record. Now, a research team including University of Michigan graduate student Sanaa El-Sayed has discovered the earliest known examples of six modern fish groups that still swim in Earth's seas today.

🚨Job Alert ‼️ 🚨
Hard-rock geologist with expertise in bedrock structure for mapping metamorphic terranes at Connecticut Geological Survey
#geology ⚒️
https://www.jobapscloud.…

Environmental Analyst 3
We are hiring for Environmental Analyst 3.

🚨Job Alert ! 🚨
2 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in #Biogeochemistry in Oxford using novel methods to explore organic matter stability and new proxies of rock weathering
wider team in Southampton.
#geology (h/t profbobhilton on bsky)