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Becky Nesel

@geobeck.bsky.social
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on a mission to see as many cool rocks as possible (and show you why they’re cool)

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Becky Nesel @geobeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Picture on the left: me as a child looking at/touching a huge garnet at the Barton Garnet Mine in the Adirondacks of NYS Picture on the right: me about 20 years later, a geologist, at the American Museum of Natural History touching a rock from the same mine while filming my own geology show 🪨🤗
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The Nature Educator @thenatureeducator.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Have you seen these rare icy hairs before? It forms thanks to a fungus?! ❄️🍄 This is hair ice, aka ice wool & frost beard. It’s a rare phenomenon because it needs specific conditions to grow, including just below freezing temperatures and the presence of a specific fungus called Exidiopsis effusa!
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Becky Nesel @geobeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Hi! I’m new here. 🤓 My name is Becky and I’m a Geologist and Science Communicator. My goal is to see as many cool rocks on our planet as possible - and share with you what it is that makes them so cool. 🪨🤓 Follow me to see our planet through a new lens 🔎
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