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Dr Katie StrangWild that these rocks were originally laid down as sediments at the bottom of a huge ocean which separated the landmasses now known as Scotland & England.. but then continental collision took place, the Iapetus closed & over 400 million years later we’re stuck with the tories 🙃
cobalt going beige today@palaeokatie Makes me laugh!
Hope 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴 SNP@palaeokatie a lament for the lost ocean…🏴
@TheMorrigan a tragedy 🏴😅
@palaeokatie what an amazing ‘job’ you have, or should I say vocation lol. It’s the completely unfathomable time lines that blow my mind…I cannot comprehend billions of years, and the huge geological changes that have taken place. I was wondering, is there any evidence of large meteor strikes in what is now Scotland, or would all the upheavals have destroyed said evidence? That subject fascinates me as well? By the way, love the hair and your amazing tattoos!
S Fraser@TheMorrigan @palaeokatie have a wee look here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-37360696
@palaeokatie @sfscotland oh that’s my day sorted! Massive google search day coming up. If he’s right that was a big one! Fascinating it was the only one though (that we know of). The energy released is hard to get your head around… Thank you so much. Coffe and Google here I come!
@TheMorrigan @palaeokatie enjoy your research. I've got to be honest, timescales and working in millions of years is what really challenges me. But, it's also one of the things that makes geology fascinating.
@sfscotland @palaeokatie yes, even holding a piece of ancient rock, or a fossil, just amazes me. The history behind it is just mind blowing!
@sfscotland @palaeokatie tried as I might I couldn’t find a copy of the Ch4 documentary series that covered this…aired Sep 2016, but does not appear to be in any back catalogue sadly.
@TheMorrigan That's a pity. If I come across anything I'll point it in your direction.
@sfscotland yes please do…thank you
@TheMorrigan do you think it could be this one? It's title is slightly different - Walking Through Time.
Walking Through Time | Catch Up On All 4
@sfscotland I did find this one, but it’s not about the meteorite, it’s about how the land bridge between us and Europe flooded…and left us on our own; quite the metaphor don’t you think! Thanks though, I will definitely watch this anyway 👍🏻😇
@sfscotland @palaeokatie I cannot find the Channel 4 Walking in Time episode that covers the meteor strike - Sept 2016. If anyone can I would love to know. Also I had no idea that impacts like this leave a gravitational signature (if I’ve understood less density equals lower gravitational readings). That this was over a billion years ago makes it even more fascinating! Also learned that Scotland was actually near the equator at that time…can we can use this in the argument for independence lol!
Anke@palaeokatie oooooh, those round stones on the ground are so pretty 💚
@Anke there’s lots of lovely pebbles there, it’s Milldown Bay near Coldingham in the Scottish Borders 😀
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I've got a shovel, either we find an exciting fossil or we let the sea back in, either way a win!
I've got a shovel, either we find an exciting fossil or we let the sea back in, either way a win!
Lou the Lustrous@palaeokatie Very good... Didn't see that spot-on barb coming! 😂
🏴LadyMuck@StoorieCastle@palaeokatie ha ha love it 🏴
Ivor@palaeokatie I'd like to say that escalated quickly but it feels like it's really been that long.
Matthew Martell@palaeokatie Actually, we're stuck with the Tories down here in England! You've managed to get rid of most of yours! 😂
@MatthewRMartell actually, we’re still stuck in an involuntary union which means being landed with the tories despite not voting for them 😅
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Patrick Hadfield@palaeokatie but wouldn't we then have been American? Or maybe Greenlandish?
Matþew Bowles@patrickhadfield @palaeokatie Canadian, I think, the divide also goes thru Newfoundland--and is probably slightly before the appalachian formation of Pangaea?
@palaeokatie I cannot find a download of the Channel 4 Walking in Time episode that covers this, aired Sept 2016. If anyone can I would love to know. Also I had no idea that impacts like this leave a gravitational signature (if I’ve understood less density equals lower gravitational readings). That the this was over a billion years ago makes it even more fascinating! Also learned that Scotland was actually near the equator at that time…anyway we can use this in the argument for independence lol!
Helen Ross@palaeokatie Love it!
RachelRocks@palaeokatie has the response you got to this post here differed much from the 🐦 community response?
@RachelRocks yeah definitely! I’m still getting DM’d abuse over there, but everyone seemed to appreciate the joke here 😅😀
Steve WilliamsMy beloved house in Hallsands, Devon sits on a finger of that type of rock (I think) . For over 50 years, I've watched these impenetrable beasts gradually succumb to the pounding of the sea.
Much of what you see in this video has finally lost it's strength, and stratified (?) into easily breakable slices.
The path to the cottage fell into the sea in 2017, and I'm heartbroken.
But comforted that it's going to last longer than the Tories.
