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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Our latest Earth Learning Idea simulates the principles of relative dating using photos rather than (zone) fossils. But does every picture tell an appropriate time-related story? Check it out to see! lnkd.in/etTmyaNC @geolsoc.bsky.social @geolassoc.bsky.social

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Following on from @egu.eu GIFT Conference - one Earthlearningidea time preventing us demonstrating is the activity featured in the Blog for this week. @geolsoc.bsky.social @geolassoc.bsky.social

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Big day today at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) GIFT conference where we presented this new Earth Learning Idea (one of 4 new ones designed especially for the GIFT conference). @geolsoc.bsky.social @geolassoc.bsky.social @joaocduarte.bsky.social @ahamill.bsky.social @tsnphil.bsky.social

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Our last blog before the @egu.eu GIFT Conference next Monday with another taster of our GEFO presentation using Earthlearningidea. Next week we will publish a new ELI to be make its debut in Vienna. @geolsoc.bsky.social @geolassoc.bsky.social www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/209_Huma...

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/208_Hots.... Today's Blog post features another ELI we will be presenting at the @egu.eu Geoscience Information for Teachers (GIFT) conference in 2 weeks. The models for the origin of 'hotspots' are still very much debated. @geolsoc.bsky.social @geolassoc.bsky.social

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The ocean is not flat! This week ELI is publishing 'Laser Quest 2'; an attempt to simulate the data collection method that enables satellites to map the ocean floor by measuring the ocean surface height. @egu.eu @geolsoc.bsky.social @geolassoc.bsky.social www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/456_Lase...

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

With the @egu.eu GIFT Conference in Vienna next month, the Earth Learning Idea blog is continuing to focus on the theme 'Exploring the sea floor' ready for our presentation "Seeing plate tectonics below the waves". www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/81_Magne...

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

With talk of essential minerals and critical minerals and their apparent importance for 'peace' in Ukraine (and other areas in the world), this week's blog discusses the difference between the two and puts them into the context of the Green Revolution. @geolsoc.bsky.social @geolassoc.bsky.social

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 12/03/2025

How do scientists see ice hidden underground? A recent study by Peter Jung and his colleagues explores how borehole Ground Penetrating Radar #GPR helps detect frozen layers beneath the surface. Want to read more about it? Check out the full #Geolog post here: egu.eu/47V5H0

Image description: A person working by twilight with text that read: "blog post titled "How scientists see underground Recent study reveals how! Read now."

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 03/03/2025

Hello Bluesky! EGU is pleased to be able to activate our account here, and share all the exciting news about the upcoming General Assembly: #EGU25, our #OpenAccess publications and more! Several of our Divisions will be making the move over from Twitter/X too, so keep an eye out for your favourites!

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

With images of the Godstone sinkhole (UK) in the news recently, this week our Earth Learning Idea blog focuses on a practical classroom demonstration of this phenomena. @egu.eu @geolsoc.bsky.social @geolassoc.bsky.social lnkd.in/euCE7WpG

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/455_GPTS... Our new ELI today is a prelude to one to be published in April for the @eurogeosciences.bsky.social GIFT Conference. That will simulate the palaeomagnetic evidence for sea-floor spreading. But how was the GPTS established? This ELI models how.

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Another excellent hands-on ELI highlighted this week on mapping the ocean floor from our Italian colleague Giulia Realdon. www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/351_Sea_...

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This week's Earthlearningidea Blog focuses on creating a working model of seafloor spreading and transform faults. This is just one of a number of ELIs to be presented at the GEFO workshop at the @eurogeosciences.bsky.social Conference, Vienna. www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/84_Trans...

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Another new ELI today, one of 3 to be presented at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) G.I.F.T. conference in April (Vienna). The GIFT topic will be: 'Exploring the sea floor’. Laser Quest 2 - about satellite imaging of the seafloor - will be published in March. lnkd.in/esGvQFMh

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

It seems fitting that our first ELI of 2025 reminds us of the increase potential for flooding on our warming planet. Pupils picture for themselves what a major flood looks like, although this is our street in Manchester in the early hours of the New Year! lnkd.in/eEmUWShZ

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Our last Earthlearningidea of 2024 is an exercise to demonstrate the extent of geological time-scales and the need for meaningful geological reference points recorded in the rock record. Many other activities can be found in our Geological Time category. www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/453_Abys...

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Revisiting the Wilson Cycle. ⚒️ geoology

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

In this weeks Earthlearningidea Blog we see how Charles Lyell was about to intuitively date the Earth before radioactive dating techniques. A visit to Mount Etna, in Sicily, gave him an idea. Get your calculators out and see if you can follow his thinking. www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/295_Lyel...

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Peter Grindrod @petergrindrod.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

As the Perseverance rover reaches the edge of Jezero crater, and the view beyond begins to open up, these two fantastic websites might help you explore this amazing part of Mars: www.marslife.org areobrowser.com

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

It was just 3 years ago this week that I was in Arizona helping to collect data. A great field trip.

It was just 3 years ago this week that I was in Arizona helping collect data.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This week in our Earth Learning Idea Blog we continue our geochemistry theme with more 'edible' geology your students will love. www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/100_Crys...

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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The Ninetyeast Ridge is that long, wierd linear feature one can spot on a seafloor map of the eastern Indian Ocean. A hot spot was always the likely origin of it, but it's not so simple as the hotspot interacted with the evolving mid-ocean ridge. 🧪⚒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bathymetric map of the Ninetyeast Ridge. The ages (yellow text) are in Ma with 2σ uncertainty. DSDP and ODP drill sites and dredge sites (white text) that were dated are shown as solid white circles and triangles, respectively. Inset shows the location of the Ninetyeast Ridge in the Eastern Indian Ocean. The bathymetric map was generated using GeoMapApp73 (www.geomapapp.org), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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José Luis Casamor @batidivulga.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

La #icnología estudia las huellas resultantes de la actividad de organismos actuales o antiguos. Estas del Eoceno prepirenaico muestran #icnofacies de Scoyenia y apuntan a que el “responsable” habría sido un artrópodo con apéndices duros! 🧪⚒️ #ichnology

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Ever heard of ‘Mendeleev Bingo’? Our new Earth Learning Idea, published today, is called "Element of Fun"! This activity provides an engaging way for students to become familiar with the Periodic Table. And like all ELIs the emphasis is on FUN! www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/452_Peri...

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

This mud dried out 200 million years ago. ⚒️

Fossil desiccation cracks in Triassic aged Balls Bluff Siltstone from the Culpeper Basin of Virginia.

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

A great day to remind earth science and geography teachers of this relevant Earth Learning Idea. www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/56_solar...

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

In preparation for the EGU GIFT Conference in Vienna next month, EarthLearningIdea are publishing 3 new ELIs on the conference topic "The changing climate of out planet". The first is a demonstration of the effect that an increase in ocean acidification will have on the shells of marine organisms.

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Today's Earth Learning Idea is another in the series for students with visual impairment. It enables them to engage with real geological materials used when teaching the subject and be able to share in learning alongside visually acute students. www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/437_Modi...

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Just returned from a fabulous #gteconf24 in York. Some new contacts and it was great to share new ideas with committed Geography Teacher Educators. My thanks to Sophie Wilson for encouraging me to attend and the inspirational @geogramblings.bsky.social for her support and enthusiasm.

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Essential Minerals -Critical minerals? But is gold one of them. We continue the theme of Essential Minerals for the Green Revolution with a new ELI for the end of 2023. www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/433_Esse... Happy Christmas and see you in the New Year -the ELI team.

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Brian Romans @clasticdetritus.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

photo I snapped two months ago today while aboard the JOIDES Resolution in northern Baffin Bay — yes, the outsized clast of igneous rock (interpreted as IRD; ice-rafted debris) is notable, but check out that lamination/bedding — that's what I'm excited about 🤓

Freshly split sediment cores on the description table aboard the JOIDES Resolution drillship. Millimeter- to centimeter-scale lamination and bedding is visible, along with a notable outsized clast of igenous rock embedded in the muddy sediments.

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

This week EARTHLEARNINGIDEA are highlighting a couple of Geoscience Competitions for students on earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

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Oliver Strimpel @geologybites.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Geology Bites is a podcast for the scientifically curious. In each of the 81 episodes to date, I talk with a leading Earth or Planetary science researcher. Take a look at geologybites.com and see if you like listening either there, or on any of the main podcast apps.

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Dr. Melissa Scruggs @volcanodoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

I wrote a thing for Temblor so if you haven’t had time to catch up on what’s going on in Iceland, pull up a seat & get cozy… just like this magma body. temblor.net/temblor/nov-...

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Iceland’s ground swells as volcanic eruption looms near Grindavík - Temblor.net

How close is Iceland’s Grindavík to a volcanic disaster? Read the latest developments here.

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

There's an awesome website where you can visualize seismic events in 4D (with time) at any location you choose. It based on the USGS catalog and the data starts in 1980 up until now! 🧪 Geology ⚒ seismic-explorer.concord.org

Screenshot of the mentioned website, showing earthquakes since 1980 at cental Japan in 3D View.

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

A great evening field trip with @geolsoc.bsky.social NW Regional group to Engine Vein Mine, Alderley Edge. Good data collection for the next edition of the GA guide on 'The Geology of the Manchester Area' published in the new year.

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Normal fault? Reverse fault? Perspective matters if you want to get it right! (It's normal.) ⚒️

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Annette Lokier @annettelokier.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

This morning I was with DerbyUni environmental sustainability students exploring the stunning historic Cu/Pb/Zn Ecton Mine learning about legacy mines and mine waste.

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Pete Loader @peteloader.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

This is a great little interactive exercise for teaching students the basics of the 'Rock Cycle'. www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/178_Rock...

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Alistair Hamill @ahamill.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

A visualisation of the flat slab subduction below Peru and how it helps explain the gap in volcanism along the Andes at that location.

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Sounds like an interesting read for later: Could two large basal mantle anomalies on Earth be caused by the moon-forming impact of Theia 4.5 billion years ago? #seismology ⚒️ Geology 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cover of Nature magazine from 2 November 2023: "Impact factor: Moon forming collision left extraterrestrial relics in earth's mantle."

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