Stuart Swales

@taynappe

Botherer of the rocks of Highland Perthshire, Scotland. Open University Geological Society Chairperson (and Webmaster) For OUGS Social Media follow:

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Stuart Swales@taynappe· 26d

Ooh, a real bargain ;-)

Red Mazda MX-5 RF. Price drop from a mere £330,000. A snip.

Stuart Swales@taynappe· 27d

For those who are a 'bit warm' and feel a bit like gallium.

Black clad person is melting due to heat

Stuart Swales@taynappe· 27d

At my grandma's house in glorious B&W

Stuart Swales@taynappe· Jul 10

These lovely images put me in mind of the wonderful photomicrographs by Bernardo Cesare microckscopica.pixels.com/art (used to be @micROCKScopica on TwiX), especially his geological ones.

Photomicrograph of dinosaur bone by Bernardo Cesare.
"The image shows a highly porous structure, with pores filled with late chalcedony and occasionally a thin rim of carbonate, and the fossil remnants of the bone tissue. Black dots denote the original position of bone cells.
On one side a larger void is filled with fine-grained sandstone. "

Symplectite (microscopic intergrowths of minerals) from high-grade metamorphic rock (here, a granulite)

Stuart Swales@taynappe· Jul 9

This sort of axe man? (the myth of the senior control rod axe man)

Cartoon with stick figures around a reactor pile

Stuart Swales@taynappe· Jul 9

Building Reflections? Or in fact a crenulated schist??? ;-)

Wiggly crenulations in schist, Mamores
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH7krDsmpbg

Stuart Swales@taynappe· Jul 7

Very much so.

Mannekin Pis clad in Belgium strip doing his thing with the Algal Reflecting Pool

Stuart Swales@taynappe· Jul 7

Shocked to see Halifax now rated so low in the pub department. About six of us spent an idle half hour in the 6th form - whilst waiting for the latest organic chemistry experiment to brew - enumerating Halifax pubs we'd actually been to and supped in. We got to 96. That was 1980.

Stuart Swales@taynappe· Jun 19

micro-meteorites.com Still over there

Screenshot from Twitter showing micrometeorite under microscrope

Stuart Swales@taynappe· Jun 9

The big book of geochem!

Stuart Swales@taynappe· Jun 8

We've already had a costly failure on another hydro scheme tunnel nearby link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Image showing location of tunnel collapse at Glendoe

Stuart Swales@taynappe· Jun 7

The wisteria/clematis/cotoneaster monster is performing satisfactorily again

Stuart Swales@taynappe· Jun 3

Yup! ISTR we couldn't go as far up the glen in 2016 due to one of the houses having changed hands, so ended up walking up the river. This one from our 2006 trip :-)