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22 Oct 2025
Although the Cockburn Museum is alive and well, this account is now only checked intermittently.
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Great new blog out today 'Addressing biodiversity loss and climate change together: a great opportunity for museums with natural history collections' wp.me/p2FTB9-2ey
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29 Nov 2024
You never lose that magical feeling of being the first person to find a piece of deep time.
A 180 million year old Jurassic ammonite from a quarry in Holzmaden, southern Germany.
⚒️ Happy #FossilFriday
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20 Nov 2024
Truly one of the greatest honors of my life to today present Dugie Ross an honorary Doctor of Science at @EdinburghUni.
Dr Ross left school young, built his own museum, discovered some of the first Scottish dinosaurs & made Skye into Scotland's Dinosaur Island.
Congrats Dr Dugie!
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Cockburn Geological Museum retweeted
11 Nov 2024
We are delighted to see the second part of the four part series released today! Great work by @RhianMeara and @timeforgeog! @marcreichow @uniofleicester
11 Nov 2024
The second video with @timeforgeog on the story of the Eldfell 1973 eruption came out this morning! @GeologyLeics @marcreichow
timeforgeography.co.uk/video…
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The Sir Archibald Geikie Centennial Celebrations officially commenced last Sunday - and included a field trip to the iconic geosite Knockan Crag, led by Prof Robert Butler from Aberdeen University! ⛰
2 more days of events to go! Find out more & book here nwhgeopark.com/sir-archibald…
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7 Nov 2024
Day 7 of #30DayMapChallenge. Vintage style. If you’re looking for some inspiration why not take at look at the earliest geological maps of Ireland on geologicalmaps.net/
ALT A geological map of Ballycastle.
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7 Nov 2024
Ha 'renowned geologist'! Well if you say nice things about me of course I'm going to share ... Looking forward to this!
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4 Nov 2024
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3 Nov 2024
November 3, 1664, British naturalist Robert Hooke shows an advanced copy of his "Micrographia" to the Royal Society in London. The book contains the first figure showing cells in petrified wood 🦠🔬
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28 Aug 2024
📢Our new 'Women on the Rocks' display is now open at Kelvin Hall. Delve into lesser-known stories of some of Scotland's pioneering women geologists.
Learn more about the women whose work has helped us to understand the Earth, including Elizabeth Gray – Scotland's Mary Anning!
ALT Archival photo of Elizabeth Anderson Gray sitting in a moorland area. She's holding a hammer-like pickaxe against some rocks. She's wearing a long dark overcoat and a dark hat, wrapped with a light scarf tied in a bow beneath her chin.
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Cockburn Geological Museum retweeted
3 Oct 2024
Our new temporary #exhibition “Bringing #dinosaurs back to life: 200 years of research” opens on Mon 7th Oct.
Explore how #science has changed our understanding of dinosaurs, how they looked like and how they may have lived.
Read more: birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/…
@unibirmingham
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28 Oct 2024
If you ever wanted to see some of my specimens in 3D from the comfort o your own home... thanks to the amazing work of our Digital Imaging Unit - you now can! And here is a blog to let you know how they did it:
libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/diu…
#3D #Lyell #FlintTools #Archaeology
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24 Oct 2024
October 24, 1902, Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts killing 6.000 people and becoming one of the three largest eruptions (VEI 6) of the 20th century
volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?v…
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18 Oct 2024
These ancestors of sardines are commonly found together in the creatively named “Fossil Lake” of Wyoming. Knightia eocaena (the smaller one) is one of the most commonly found complete vertebrate #fossils anywhere in the world!
Post by Adam Abrahams.
#FossilFriday #palaeontology
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18 Oct 2024
October 18, 1835, naturalist Charles Darwin takes his last steps on the lava of the Galápagos islands 🌋
Sketch by Darwin himself of superimposed lava-flows as seen along the coast of the island of Santiago
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11 Oct 2024
Just two women, Elizabeth Philpot and Mary Buckland, writing to each other on December of 1833, at the eve of palaeontology, exchanging pictures of Ichthyosaur skulls drawn with ink from fossilised squids. Life was good.
[Buckland archive, Oxford Museum of Natural History]
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30 Sep 2024
🚨new week, new blog! 🚨
Introducing Lizzie, and her summer spent as the Lyell Web Development Intern...
libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/lye…
@sedimentology
@CockburnGeol
@CRC_EdUni
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24 Sep 2024
Head to Holyrood Park on 29th Sept, 12-3, to discover the 340 million year history of Arthur’s Seat, from tropical lagoons to volcanic eruptions & glaciers. 🌋At this drop-in event, geologists & volunteers will interpret the landscape & explain Edinburgh’s incredible geology!
ALT Photo taken in Holyrood park in Edinburgh, showing an erratic in the foreground and volcanic sill in the background.
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