History of Geology

historyofgeology.bsky.social

21 October 2026 11:36

October 21, 1907, Daniel Hartman, a worker at a sand mine in Mauer (Germany), unearths a mandible which later experts recognize as of "having traces of [hu]mankind." It is now the type specimen of Homo heidelbergensis 💀 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauer_1

James Saenz

jamessaenz.bsky.social

21 October 2026 11:36

Why use many lipids when few will do? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dr. Evan J. Gowan

evangowan.bsky.social

21 October 2026 11:35

Have you ever seen a rock that is composed almost entirely of foraminifera? Now you have! From a Late Pleistocene (probably MIS 3/4) outcrop in western Kikaijima, Japan.

Simon Hammann

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14 October 2026 11:19

Vielleicht möchten die Wissenschaftsresorts mal etwas dazu machen, dass man von manch frisch gekürten Exzellenzunis nun direkt nach der ExStra Entscheidung drastischste Sparmaßnahmen und Kürzungen hört. @zeitonline.bsky.social @spiegel.de looking at you.

ClimateDynamics

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12 October 2026 22:03

We compiled a bunch of temperature proxy data and concluded that the Miocene Climatic "Optimum" wasn't significantly warmer than the rest of the (very warm) early Miocene. The MMCT was definitely a cooling. Implications for CO2 versus ocean circulation mechanisms. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...