@petergleick Gung ho ho ho! !
Iran is having the last laugh.
The arithmetic of glacial till from the Suffolk, plateau, UK: Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay + Cretaceous Chalk + Pliocene Crag + Pleistocene erratics from W Midlands, E Midlands, Pennines, Northumbria, Scotland, N Sea, etc, mashed under a colossal ice sheet = the Lowestoft Till.
It's a beast of a deposit.
@petergleick Cheating?
They project that onto others because that's the way they would behave in the circumstances (and the way they will behave). They have their model in Donald J (such a fibber, such a victim).
Scanning the Docwra Collection of early C20th photos at Dunwich Museum, UK, is yielding fresh images of ship's ballast in the walls of now-vanished All Saints' Church; also geological specimens & palaeoliths now sadly missing from the collection - also a bizarre rubble pic which begs interpretation!
@infobeautiful It's no wonder the USA wants to destabilise Venezuela and Iran.
A day out with
#geology,
#farming &
#biodiversity colleagues on the Norfolk Fen edge, UK - we discover a fine relict periglacial landscape probably never ploughed. Peat wastage at work; a Late Upper Palaeolithic site nearby.
#Norfolk #GeodiversityStonewort (Chara vulgaris) populating a cattle trough in the Waveney valley, Suffolk, UK.
I'm speculating about how it got there, but it's evidently at home in this perched world of sporadically flowing, lime-rich water.
#flora #botany #biodiversitySummer fades but the Wild Carrot - Daucus carota - one of my favourite plants, reveals beautiful detail in its seeds.
#plants #botany #microscopy a#UK
Mike Taylor 🦕
