John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴🧡✊🏻✊🏿
FaithfullJohn@mastodon.scot
<p>Scottish mineralogist/petrologist/geologist living on Mull. Former sysadmin/database programmer. He/him.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Geoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Geoscience</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Geology</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Mineralogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mineralogy</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Petrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Petrology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Geochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Geochemistry</span></a>, <br /><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Rocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rocks</span></a>, <a href="https://mastod
Posts
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Post #3784541
#InternationalRockDay Here's a beautifully clean, sand-blasted and sculpted, spangled and sparkly schist outcrop at Trasana, on the south coast of Mull, widely regarded locally as the most beautiful rock in the world 🤩🥰 #Mull #Moine #Metamorphic
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Post #2342549
One of the many things I like about my country is that the voting age here in Scotland is 16. This is, sadly, not very common. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_age
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Post #998504
Lost Joan Eardley painting found in charity shop sells for £29,500 - BBC News https://share.google/tNSsZ4VUXIRdB1r42
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Post #922711
Storm Dave may be approaching, with gales, sleet, snow, rain etc, but nothing will stop (🤞) the Rèis thunnaige mhòr na Càisge in Bunessan on Easter Sunday! 😊🦆🐤🏁 #Mull #gaidhlig #Ducks #Easter #bunessan
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Post #660781
Commonest bivalves on a beach yesterday (clockwise from top left) : Seven x Cerastoderma edule Seven x Lucinoma borealis Five x Chamelea gallina (?) One Spisula solida One Arctica islandica These shells are found on many sandy beaches in the Ross of Mull, but the relative abundances vary a lot from place to place, even on apparently similar beaches near to each other... @dantheclamman #Shells #Mull #Conchology #Biominerals
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Post #581208
#DogWalkingGeology Spud is admiring this lovely shingle-polished outcrop of Moine schist on the beach at Ardalanish, Mull. #Metamorphic #Mull
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Post #506840
#ThinSectionThursday Here&#39;s some lovely zoned biotite crystals, slightly kinked and intertwined during magmatic transport and cooling, in this minette dyke rock from St Hellier in Jersey. Field of view about 2mm wide. Sample in the Hunterian collections, University of Glasgow. #Geology #Microscopy #Lamprophyre #ChannelIslands
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Post #33701
Very shallow geophysics for farming: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program