Only 2 have ever been found in Wales. Join our Head of Mineralogy & Petrology Jana Horak, to find out more, and learn how the museum is
helping to track other possible meteorite falls 👇 https://t.co/xTo5qhRM4T . AMAZING ASTRONOMY all weekend.

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Only 2 have ever been found in Wales. Join our Head of Mineralogy & Petrology Jana Horak, to find out more, and learn how the museum is
helping to track other possible meteorite falls 👉 https://t.co/uRpS5HbPCF . AMAZING ASTRONOMY all weekend.

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Whoa this is cool so I'll do it too.

I'm a geologist currently applying to grad school to work on metamorphic petrology and isotope geochemistry related projects. I've done research on detrital zircons and their role in tectonic processes in active margins.

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Within the Jack Hills quartzite are these lovely gems. Well not gems exactly, but lovely zircon crystals. And of these zircon, about 10% of these are older than 4 billion years old.
Images from Aaron Cavosie .ass.petrology

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