@palaeokatie
Curator of Mineralogy & Petrology at The Hunterian ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Trustee of Scottish Geology Trust & Fossil Grove Trust. Researcher of Scotlandโs rocks, industrial heritage, coprolites & graveyard geology.
Digital painting of a blue robot with a single green eye and lots of tube arms ending in little claws. One clawed hand is holding a steaming cup of oil.
This robot was also based on a thicc crinoid columnal that @palaeokatie.bsky.social found aaaaaaaaages ago. #SciArt #Robot
And Gryphaea (devils toenails) fossils were known as clach crubain in Gaelic which means crouching shell, used as a cure for arthritis/joint pain. Pretty sure most Iโve come across are related to healing/medicinal properties though, rather than being about a particular person like a saint!
In parts of Scotland ammonites were called โcrampstonesโ, they believed they could cure cramp in cows by washing them in water which an ammonite had been left in for hours! belemnites were also thought to have medicinal powers, they were known as โbat stonesโ & used to cure horses distemper (worms)๐ค
No this is just a naturally eroded rock lol
No itโs not. Itโs amygdaloidal andesite which is an extrusive igneous rock erupted near to or at the earthโs surface. Those are not phenocrysts, theyโre vesicles which have been infilled by silica (quartz) and calcite.
No, it belongs on the beach where it was left ๐
This is from Scotland, itโs just a naturally weathered and eroded rock, theyโre not anything rare or that. ๐
I was referencing this and most definitely not Neil young ๐ youtu.be/SyRpGQVbR6w?...
No it doesnโt?
No itโs a lump of andesite lol
Tattie heart ๐ฅ๐ค
I was referencing โheart of stoneโ by Deadspace btw, itโs in the alt text (and for the record, I cannae stand the rolling stones lol) youtu.be/SyRpGQVbR6w?...
Aye thereโs loads of songs with similar names like โheart of stoneโ or โheart of goldโ, and/or in the lyrics. I was quoting lyrics from this though youtu.be/SyRpGQVbR6w?...
Aye thereโs loads of songs with this name and/or โheart of stoneโ in the lyrics. I was quoting lyrics from this (itโs in the alt text), not a fan of the rolling stones lol youtu.be/SyRpGQVbR6w?...
Doesnโt look anything like one at all ๐คฃ
Aye thereโs loads of songs with this name and/or โheart of stoneโ in the lyrics. I was quoting lyrics from this though (itโs in the alt text) youtu.be/SyRpGQVbR6w?...
Not a fan lol. I was quoting lyrics from this youtu.be/SyRpGQVbR6w?...
Aye thereโs loads of songs with this name and/or โheart of stoneโ in the lyrics. I was quoting lyrics from this though (itโs in the alt text) youtu.be/SyRpGQVbR6w?...
Aye thereโs loads of songs with this name and/or โheart of stoneโ in the lyrics. I was quoting lyrics from this though (itโs in the alt text) youtu.be/SyRpGQVbR6w?...
Image of a holding beach worn lump of igneous rock (andesite) which is shaped like a heart. The rock is weathered to a brownish-very dark red colour and contains holes (vesicles) that have been infilled with pale coloured calcite and quartz (amygdales). The background is an out of focus rocky pebbly beach on the Berwickshire coast. Caption is lyrics from deadspace โheart of stoneโ.
And so I must bear to you a heart of stone.. ๐ค
Two fingers holding a piece of beach worn moss jasp-agate from Scotland. There are deep red jasper inclusions throughout the agate and some areas contain a white surface patina. Within the agate there are tube structures which can be seen cut at various orientations, creating interesting concentric circles and swirling patterns. Colour varies from blue to red, orange, yellow pinkish and blue chalcedony. Many of the red inclusions are thin and wispy and tend to exhibit a dendritic swirly pattern. Found on the Berwickshire coast, possibly from near(ish) Devonian volcanics, but looks more similar to the weird agates you find in the ORS conglomerates.
Love these weird mossy agates ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ค
Some of my favourite rocks and my childhood playground ๐ค
Haha definitely! The rocks are pure treacherous at the minute so I didnโt get much of a chance to look up, too busy trying not to deck it ๐คฃ
โฆand I thought sheโd never quite understand.. ๐ค
Picture looking south on the Berwickshire coast showing a section of Carboniferous cliffs. Rocks are sandstones belonging to the Fell Sandstone Formation. They are composed of fluvial (river) sandstones with interbedded mudstones, deposited in a floodplain setting. The rocks are now dipping almost vertically due to tectonic activity associated with the variscan orogeny (mountain building event).
rock and a hard place wait for me
between the devil and the deep blue sea
everything I ever did right or wrong
hid out of sight where I belong
happy winter solstice (and the promise of longer rock hunting days) x
Selfie of Katie taken in a mirror. Sheโs wearing a bright pink coloured band shirt over a black collared shirt. The tshirt is bright pink with โSEX, DRUGS AND GANSโ in black writing, above a rectangular black and white line image of the band. Her hair is black and white on top and tied back. sheโs also wearing black Bose headphones and black trousers with a studded belt. Background is grey and out of focus. Band are from Birmingham - GANS
Excellent shirt, GANS x
Image of Katie in part of the Scarborough museums store, crouched next to a large piece of sandstone wrapped in a white plaster jacket. In the middle of the block of sandstone thereโs a fossilised footprint of a three-toed dinosaur, the print is 80cm in length and 41cm wide. The specimen is assigned to the ichnogenus Megalosauripus, and may have been made by a Megalosaurus-like theropod (described by Hudson et al 2023). The sandstone is pale brownish - cream in colour and the fossil is preserved as a positive impression on what the underside of the sandstone bed. The footprint is slightly paler and cream in colour than the surrounding matrix. The dinosaur would have stepped into wet sand leaving an impression, and the impression was then filled in by overlying sediments (so youโre looking at it upside down now). From the Long Nab Member of the Scalby formation, Cleveden Basin, Yorkshire.
Giving a talk in Yorkshire so I got to spend a few days catching up with auld pals at @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social, like this absolute belter of a Middle Jurassic theropod dinosaur footprint (Megalosauripus - Hudson et al, 2023) from Yorkshire ๐ฆ
(equally lovely to see some of my fav human pals too ๐ค)
A busy weekend #MiningLandscapes and @palaeokatie.bsky.social
joined the #BridgeofAllan #Stirling WellHouse Restoration team and welcomed around 50 visitors for #DoorsOpen #coppermining #mineralspa