@RocksbyDefault

Postdoc at @EPS_McGill. Field structural geologist. mostly pictures of rocks https://xitter.cf/t.co/aalnEZ0PXv

 Montréal, Québec, Canada
Joined October 2013
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I'm so excited to share with you "Viewing the Rock World", an outreach project based on a 3D-printable thin section viewer that anyone can make! Looking for teachers, educators, student groups, anyone interested in participating! Check out matthewtarling.github.io/out… for more info.
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These are beautiful! Love the colours!! How did the activity go?
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I don't check twitter much these days... Super pumped to see the 3D printed slide viewer in action!!!!!
Hayden Dalton@HaydenDaltonGeo22 May 2024
Good to be back visiting a bunch of the junior classes at Siena College. As always we chatted all things volcanoes and diamonds 🌋💎Super impressed at the spicy questions the girls threw at me! I also tested out 3D printed slide viewers designed by @RocksbyDefault - loved it!
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Good to be back visiting a bunch of the junior classes at Siena College. As always we chatted all things volcanoes and diamonds 🌋💎Super impressed at the spicy questions the girls threw at me! I also tested out 3D printed slide viewers designed by @RocksbyDefault - loved it!
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Is #geotwitter still a thing these days? It's been a while. I am looking for help with graphite Raman thermometry. Does it apply to carbon precipitated from a fluid? I didn't think so, but I've seen a few papers applying it in that way. It would be super handy if that's the case!
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My wedding ring, made with a little geology, chemistry & tedious work. Crafted from a coin found in the hills of Waianakarua, hammered into shape over long hours during my PhD & plated with gold panned from the Maerewhenua River from several years of demonstrating field school.🧵
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With flakes of gold saved from a few years of teaching students to pan in the Maerewhenua River during field school, I prepared a cyanide solution (with some very questionable chemistry performed on my apartment fire escape), and made a solution to plate the silver ring gold.
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The ring might be a bit imperfect and there are many things I could have probably done better, however it carries years of memories (and probably fits my roughed up hands better than a perfect, polished gold ring from the jewelers would).
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Getting the *Viewing the Rock World* Thin Section Viewer ready to go into the field with a custom protective case! I'll post the 3D printing files on my website shortly if anyone making the viewer wants to print one: matthewtarling.github.io
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#ThinSectionThursday Rocks capture epic earth-shattering tales: the formation of our planet, the motion of tectonic plates, molten rock erupting at the surface of the Earth. *Viewing the Rock World* is one way you can share these stories with the public: matthewtarling.github.io/out…
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#MineralMonday This tremolite talc rock formed through metasomatism of serpentinite, a process that involves mineral reactions, including the replacement and growth of new minerals, facilitated by fluids. Livingstone Fault, New Zealand. Field of View ~20cm.
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A 3D-printable polarised thin section viewer that anyone can make for <5$, part of the *Viewing the Rock World* outreach project. All the information you need to take part or build it right here: matthewtarling.github.io/out…
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Putting together another *Viewing the Rock World* thin section viewer for @EPS_McGill outreach work. All the information you need to build one of these yourself is available here: matthewtarling.github.io/out…
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For #ThinSectionThursday Physics meets Geology! You can use the polarised light coming from your laptop screen, in combination with a linear polariser, to view thin sections in polarised light! Using one half of the Viewing the Rock World slide viewer: matthewtarling.github.io/out…
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Interested in 3D printing your own thin section boxes? I am providing the .STL files for a few different models, for free!!! Check out: matthewtarling.github.io/pri…
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@volcannick @CailCon the 3D printing files are now up!
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I normally think of serpentinite as the weak phase in almost any faulting scenario. Here is a calc-mylonite chock full of serpentinite which behaved seemingly brittley, while the calcite has gone about squeezing & flowing around it (+ new calcite precipitating around it?). Wild!
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Back from an amazing time in the field with @ajk_talcsrocks and her group.
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