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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 2d

That’s cheap but these stones are not worth much. Only buy it if you like it

Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 2d

There are plenty of better examples out there! Save your money and wait to find one you like

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 2d

Huge congratulations, Brenna! Well done! X

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 3d

There's something about the subtle abstraction in Rose Ferraby's landscapes that always draws me in. I have a similar response to Paul Nash's work on the same subject almost a century earlier.

Downland: Art & the Archaeological Imagination: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Art meets archaeology in new exhibition about Wiltshire landscape

Artist and archaeologist Dr Rose Ferraby's exhibition aims to show Wiltshire's influence on art.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 5d

Just the edge of it passing over today, supposed to clear overnight

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 5d

Tomorrow! My final #urbangeology walk for this year - And it looks like it’s going to be a sunny day! All info in the post below.

Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 15d

My final #urbangeology walk for this year will take place on 4 October. Reservations and more information on #LondonWalks website at www.walks.com/our-walks/th.... Hope to see you there, this is my favourite walk!

Poster for the walk. The text reads ‘discover fossils, stone and astronomy in the city of London! The Monument, the Moon and Malta: urban geology on Eastcheap. Meet at 14.30, Monument Station, Fish Street Hill.’ The background image shows a photo of the Malta War Memorial, a block of squared stone with attached black plaques with maps of the Mediterranean and a description of the siege of Malta during World War II.

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 8d

And one of my favourite things is when stone is carved into the form of a book! Thanks for sharing!

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 8d

And a chance to repost this for followers of @stoneclub.bsky.social and @pavementgeology.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/hele...

Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · Apr 28

A library of stone in Alex Wenham's studio. I really can't explain how much I love stone - and the people who work it.

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for sharing this - we’ve found azurite pigment in the Neolithic, but this pushes it right back - a nevertheless rare use. The really lost pigments are those created from dyes which would have faded away long ago.

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 9d

Really interesting article (and fab video) - rewrites the history of colour pigments and use and raises the question of what other colour pigments may have been used but not preserved? @pavementgeology.bsky.social

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 9d

Europe's oldest blue pigment

Dating back ~13,000 years, it questions the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black and indicates a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined

Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 9d

Europe's oldest blue pigment

Dating back ~13,000 years, it questions the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black and indicates a more vibrant Ice Age world than previously imagined

Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 12d

That does sound like a plan

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 12d

I want a digital ID because my NI number has been stolen twice and it’s a nightmare proving who you are precisely because these things are not linked.

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Johan Lissenberg @lissenbergjohan.bsky.social · 13d

Mind blowing rocks of Rosso Levanto: mantle peridototes that were carbonated and then weathered on the ocean floor of the Piemont-Ligiria ocean.

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 15d

My final #urbangeology walk for this year will take place on 4 October. Reservations and more information on #LondonWalks website at www.walks.com/our-walks/th.... Hope to see you there, this is my favourite walk!

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 19d

Lovely to be at @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social’s launch last night for #TheWhispersofRock. Looks like it’s going to be a great read …
#geology #books

The book cover of The Whispers of Rock: stories from the Earth by Anjana Khatwa published by The Bridge Street Press

A slab of Purbeck Stone inscribed with the words ‘The Whispers of Rock’

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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 23d

#MolluscMonday I wonder how many of those disembarking from their superyachts at the quayside in St Tropez will notice the rudist bivalves in the limestone blocks they are stepping onto?

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めじぇどさん @sakunami20.bsky.social · 23d

広島パセーラの化石たち（一部）
ぶっといウミユリとアンモナイトや海綿

石材はマッサンジとジュライエロー＆ジュラグレーです！

たくさん写真撮ったのでまたポストします（その前に名古屋編をさくさくポストしていかなくては(^_^;)）

#街の中で見つかるすごい石
#街角地質学
#街化石
#パセーラ

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 21d

Such a staggering waste of energy to produce this pointless stuff

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 22d

I’m with you on this, Paul!

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 24d

it’s time, if you haven’t already done so, to shut down your twitter account, and tell the institutions you are part of to leave too.

there’s no way any UK museum, university, politician or any of us should still be on that far-right platform

Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 24d

I couldn't find a full transcript of the Musk conversation with Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) at yesterday’s London demonstration so I made one myself

many shocking bits to this but perhaps especially the rhetoric of English villages under attack from “marauding"

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London Geodiversity Partnership @londongeology.bsky.social · 24d

Another busy weekend! LGP’s stand at Abbey Woods Woodland Festival. Open until 4 pm, come and learn about #londongeology

A man and a child are visiting our stall which has a display of fossils and other information about London’s geology.

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 25d

Post only when you feel like don’t treat it like a job, mute anyone you find annoying and block if angry inducing. Don’t automatically replay to every post or comment. Stick with your gut if the vibes are off mute or block. Follow people who being more nice then negative to your timeline.

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 25d

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 25d

Congratulations! 🙌