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Diego González

@geodgonzalez.bsky.social

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Geologist, Humboldtian. Assistant Professor (PAD) at UCM, working in experimental petrology, geochemistry & volcanology. Diffusion & magma mixing. Raman spectroscopy. Amateur astronomer. 🇵🇸 🌍 Madrid, Spain. 💻 https://sites.google.com/view/geodgonzalez

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Diego González @geodgonzalez.bsky.social · Nov 9

Wow! A lot of new followers today, so I am reposting my #introduction.
With an update: I am now an Assistant professor at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid.

Diego González @geodgonzalez.bsky.social · Sep 20

New in BlueSky, so here goes my introduction! Hi all, I am a geologist specializing in petrology, geochemistry and volcanology both from analytical and experimental perspectives. Now working with Canary Islands volcanism.

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Dr Janine Krippner @janinekrippner.bsky.social · 19d

I'm giving social media a go after a hiatus, so hi! I'm a Kiwi volcanologist working on Ngāuruhoe (Mt Doom) in NZ, the 2021 La Palma/Tajogaite eruption impacts, seafloor geologic hazards, & collaborate w. @geotenerife.bsky.social.
More on my work here: janinekrippner.weebly.com
Nice to meet you❤️🌋

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Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC-UCM) @igeociencias.bsky.social · 20d

Un día como hoy, hace 4 años daba comienzo la erupción del Tajogaite en la isla de La Palma.

A las 15.03h (hora local canaria) se iniciaba la erupción, que continuaría durante 85 días hasta el 13 de diciembre, siendo la erupción histórica más larga registrada en la isla y tercera en el archipiélago

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Harry Stranger @spacefromspace.com · 24d

Just spent some time digging through old Maxar/DigitalGlobe blogs to find a reference image and found this incredible capture of Mt Fuji. Incredible.

The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image.

blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...

A Maxar satellite image of Mt Fuji. The satellite was only 3 degrees above the horizon at the time, so the capture angle is almost directly side on instead of top down.

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Mike Cassidy @mikevolc.bsky.social · 23d

🌋 Excited to share my new essay in Aeon: one of the most underappreciated global risks isn’t an asteroid or supervolcano—it’s the eruptions we don’t see coming:

Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 24d

The science of volcanoes and their relationship with the climate is hard to keep up with. Why do some volcanoes give us little warning before they blow? Are we ignoring the next big eruption?

Hidden volcanoes: are we ignoring the next big eruption? | Aeon Essays

The next global disaster may be triggered by a catastrophic eruption. How can we prepare for the fire beneath our feet?

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Maruja Torres @marujatorres.bsky.social · 24d

MADRID, GRACIAS🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Diego González @geodgonzalez.bsky.social · Sep 7

Looking forward to the next one!

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Diego González @geodgonzalez.bsky.social · Sep 7

Back at home after an incredible week of #fieldwork in La Palma #LaIslaBonita! All lava flows, basalts, phonolites, enclaves of all flavours... learning a lot with the best company, @falladamente.bsky.social @albertocaracciolo.bsky.social and Álvaro! Y mucho #barraquito... ⚒️ 🌋

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FalladaMente @falladamente.bsky.social · Sep 6

Return from paradise 🌴🍌🫀🌋
A great fire work is over 😪
#LaPalma #IslaBonitaIslaPreciosa

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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm sure there are deep arguments for either, but I think hauyne is just prettier, which is a consideration when we match up random minerals against one another. ⚒️

Haüyne Locality: Mayen, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · May 1

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming.

Could these be the real culprits?

The evidence is in--and the answer is NO.

This thread explains! 🧵

A graphic with an icon of the sun, a wiggly line denoting natural cycles, and a volcano, with a title reading "WHY is climate changing?" created by me. Not fancy, as my graphic design skills lean to function over art!

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Boris Behncke @borisetneo.bsky.social · Aug 16

#Etna 's new lava flow is slowly advancing down the southeast flank of the volcano (currently at about 2400 m elevation), and is accompanied by mild Strombolian activity at the Southeast Crater. Photos taken from Nicolosi, on Etna's south flank, on the evening of 16 August 2025

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rocío g. @rociogfb.bsky.social · Aug 11

“Si esta locura no termina, Gaza quedará reducida a ruinas, las voces de su pueblo serán silenciadas, sus rostros borrados, y la historia os recordará como testigos silenciosos de un genocidio que decidisteis no detener. Por favor, compartan este mensaje"

Anas al Sharif

elpais.com/internaciona...

Israel mata a cinco periodistas de Al Jazeera, entre ellos Anas al Sharif, en un bombardeo en Gaza

El reportero, uno de los rostros de la cobertura de la guerra, había sido señalado directamente en varias ocasiones por el ejército israelí, que confirmó su muerte argumentando que era miembro de Hamá...

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Daniel Marín @eurekablog.bsky.social · Aug 10

En el blog > Jim Lovell, el único humano que viajó dos veces a la Luna sin pisarla danielmarin.naukas.com/2025/08/10/j...

Jim Lovell, el único humano que viajó dos veces a la Luna sin pisarla - Eureka

Otro veterano de las misiones Apolo nos deja. El pasado 7 de agosto falleció Jim Lovell, antiguo astronauta de la NASA, a la avanzada edad de 97 años. De entre […]

danielmarin.naukas.com

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Diego González @geodgonzalez.bsky.social · Aug 9

Lo más lejos que he estado:

N: Oslo
S: Miami
E: Viena
O: San Francisco

MJ Electriz @mjelectriz.bsky.social · Aug 9

Lo más lejos que he estado:

N: en algún punto del Ártico al norte de Husavik
S: Melbourne
E: Sydney
O: La Habana (por poco tiempo)

Campo1977 @campo1977.bsky.social · Aug 9

Lo más lejos que he estado:

N: Manchester
S: El Hierro
E: Monestir
O: Pinar del Rio

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 9

how your email finds me

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Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 8

OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97 reut.rs/3UPKubN

OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97

American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis for the hit movie "Apollo 13," has died at the age of 97, NASA said on Friday.

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Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social · Aug 2

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · Aug 1

54 years ago the Apollo 15 mission was exploring the Hadley Rille area of the rim of the Moon's vast ancient Imbrium Basin. After landing, the 'top' hatch was opened and David Scott obtained panoramas of the surroundings from an elevated view, something done only once. Here is a part of that view.

The Imbrium Basin is one of the largest of the giant impact basins whose formation highlighted the later stages of the formative era of the Solar System. Here we see some peaks of it's massive rim, mostly the shadowed sides here, made from photographs taken of the surroundings. Many of these photos had bad Sun glare in them and much processing and retouching was required to suppress the glare. In the foreground we see parts and antennas of the Lunar Module. This is roughly 210 degrees of the 360 degree panorama.

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · Aug 1

Two whole days the Kamchatka tsunami has been bouncing around the Pacific!

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · Jul 30

⚒️ 🧪

A M8.8 earthquake just ruptured the subduction zone offshore Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. This is one of the world’s truly huge earthquakes, and a triggered tsunami is currently traveling across the Pacific ocean.

This same fault ruptured on July 20th in a M7.4, and last August in a M7.1.

M8.8 earthquake strikes offshore Kamchatka

A dangerous subduction megathrust ruptures once again

earthquakeinsights.substack.com

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · Jul 30

The Earthquake Insights article about the Mw8.8 Kamchatka earthquake is, as always, really informative. ⚒️🧪 #geology

open.substack.com/pub/earthqua...

M8.8 earthquake strikes offshore Kamchatka

A dangerous subduction megathrust ruptures once again

open.substack.com

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · Jul 30

Just a reminder that tsunamis aren't just one wave.

This tide gauge in Alaska has recorded 5 hours of surges so far from the Kamchatka quake - still more to come!

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · Jul 28

Working on a project and made this image of the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption.

Never seen it from this perspective and it sort of blew my mind.

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Diego González @geodgonzalez.bsky.social · Jul 25

📜⚒️🌋 We have a new publication in Volcanica! A robust quantification of H2O in silicate glasses through micro-Raman spectroscopy: insights on the compositional effect. Congrats to Filippo for this great work!
www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...

A robust quantification of H2O in silicate glasses through micro-Raman spectroscopy: insights on the compositional effect | Volcanica

www.jvolcanica.org

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Prof Col Macpherson @colinmacpherson.bsky.social · Jul 24

For #ThinSectionThursday a plagioclase phenocryst (centre) showing double twinning suggesting coalescence of two crystals. Crescent shaped crystal in lower right is part of highly rounded quartz xenocryst. From Bau Intrusive Suite, Sarawak, Borneo 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1016/j.li...

Felsic minerals in cross polarised light from Bau Granite Suite in Borneo. Large phenocryst in centre shows two regions of concentric zoning. Several other plagioclase phenocrysts show concentric zoning and twinning. Crescent shaped crystal (bottom right) is very rounded quartz xenocryst. Very fine grained groundmass of feldspars and quartz.

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