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Peter Burgess

@geopeteal.bsky.social

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Sedimentary geology teacher and researcher, fan of science, cats and a dog called Ada, rocks, novels, good films, and bad jokes, but especially coding nerdy numerical models

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Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Aug 9

Intriguing cross-cultural fact; British (pictured) versus US hash brown divergence. Think I prefer US version - better for soaking up egg and bean juice

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Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Aug 8

Spontaneous spectacular floor find in the Newfield Inn, Seathwaite, Cumbria U.K. A laminated layer-cake of loveliness from the nearby Ordovician Seathwaite Fell Sandstone Formation. Toeset for scale

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Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Jul 25

Exactly, Nefyn, Llyn Peninsula. And beach pebbles are from late Pleistocene fluvioglacial strata so a good regional sample

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Jul 25

Does look like some form of chert? Check out the location on geologyviewer.bgs.ac.uk?_ga=2.246941... - geocontext always helps ID

BGS Geology Viewer - The Geological Map Viewer of Britain

Discover our geology with direct access to detailed information about the rocks all around you.

geologyviewer.bgs.ac.uk

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Jul 25

Best guess IDs: Bottom row probs granodiorite and porphyritic andesite. Middle row Carboniferous Limestone with coral, perhaps Siphonodendron, Lithostrotion etc, and Ordovician mudstone with thin turbidites. Top left felsic mylonite, top right right probs mafic mylonite

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Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Jul 25

You have to love a pebbly beach, but especially one with a great range of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks 😍

Six pebbles from Nefyn Beach, two igneous, two sedimentary and two metamorphic

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Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Jul 23

A mylonite beach pebble, a 600 My old microcosm of plate tectonics

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Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · May 27

A little bit of sheared and folded Neoproterozoic schist from Anglesey, Wales, a great place to understand how complex orogeny can be

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · May 18

It’s a good example of problems arising from presenting useful-but-dumb algorithms as intelligent when they are very definitely not

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Apr 22

Here’s a motivational limerick I created for reluctant stereonet users

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Apr 22

Apparent cyclicity in strata, and the process of determining if it really is ordered-cyclical or just randomly repetitive, is one of my favourite things. This example is Pennsylvanian deltaic? strata at Amroth, South Wales, with logging Liverpool University students for scale

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Apr 14

Indeed, different kind of plate boundary in the two locations, but squishing is still squishing 😉

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Apr 13

Too cool to be gneiss, this site is strat-tastic 😉

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Apr 13

Because you cannot beat a good fold 😍 especially examples like this that show complex 3D geometry

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Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Feb 4

Wall of the week; crinoids! And possibly stylolites dissolving them. Beautiful 😍

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Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Jan 11

Deepest winter sunshine

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Nov 24

The coral kerbstones of Amsterdam

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Nov 23

A marbleously metamorphic Wall of the Week, Dam Square, Amsterdam

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · May 12

A few days post SEPM research conference to revisit some classic cratonic stratigraphy in a breathtakingly beautiful location 😍

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Feb 13

Clunky code is fine of course, whatever works, means-to-an-end etc, but there are few things more satisfying than elegantly efficient code 🤓 Mostly as an aspiration however 😉

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Jan 29

Jurassic water park?

Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Jan 27

Interested in how autogenic processes can make an allogenic input signal indistinguishable in submarine fan strata? Details in a new open-access EPSL paper here authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Dec 24

Any idea what that would look like when “deposited”?

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Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Dec 20

Very well deserved 👏

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Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Dec 19

I think you just succinctly summarised most social media 😉