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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/xTo5qhRM4T . AMAZING ASTRONOMY all weekend.

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2021-03-20

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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2021-03-20

Let's not forget
SILLIMANITE is a hot mineral!
Provenance from top left clockwise: Vedrette di Ries (Italy); El Hoyazo (Spain); Ivrea Verbano Zone (Italy); Kola Peninsula (Russia)

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2021-03-15

(what a nice new hashtag1)
In places it may be obvious, but you should always ask: "Has this rock ever been partially melted?"
can answer: euhedral crystal faces; pseudomorphs after melt films; nanogranitoids.

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2021-03-15

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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2020-12-03

Don't forget, our AGM precedes this evening's talk: 'The geology of Baffin Island, Arctic Canada' by Dr Owen Weller of , will describe the fascinating geology of this remote area including related insights into metamorphic petrology.

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2019-11-11

Celebrate 60 years of the Journal of by reading the Diamond Anniversary Collection, featuring some of the most cited, top downloaded, & highest altmetric scoring research, as well as articles chosen for their contributions to the field https://t.co/SIS8N2RNzz

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2019-10-15

Read a collection of some of the most influential papers published in the Journal of Petrology, collated to mark 60 years of outstanding publishing https://t.co/CjtVf0hPwC

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2019-09-26

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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2019-08-08