Maria Gorick
@mariagorick.bsky.social
University lecturer, module lead and author. Based in Manchester, UK. She/her. Geology. Geoscience. Maths.
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🥳 In celebration of International Geodiversity Day we're releasing a new animation that brings to life the amazing 562 million year old story of Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood!
🌐Read more, and watch the video, here: www.charnwoodforest.org/new-animatio...
🌐Read more, and watch the video, here: www.charnwoodforest.org/new-animatio...
October 6, 2026 at 10:01 AM
🥳 In celebration of International Geodiversity Day we're releasing a new animation that brings to life the amazing 562 million year old story of Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood!
🌐Read more, and watch the video, here: www.charnwoodforest.org/new-animatio...
🌐Read more, and watch the video, here: www.charnwoodforest.org/new-animatio...
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🥳 Happy Geodiversity Day!
⭐ As we celebrate with the theme 'Geodiversity On Our Doorstep', find an event near you, or a global online event to join:
🌐 www.geodiversityday.org/find-an-event
#GeodiversityDay
⭐ As we celebrate with the theme 'Geodiversity On Our Doorstep', find an event near you, or a global online event to join:
🌐 www.geodiversityday.org/find-an-event
#GeodiversityDay
October 6, 2026 at 8:02 AM
🥳 Happy Geodiversity Day!
⭐ As we celebrate with the theme 'Geodiversity On Our Doorstep', find an event near you, or a global online event to join:
🌐 www.geodiversityday.org/find-an-event
#GeodiversityDay
⭐ As we celebrate with the theme 'Geodiversity On Our Doorstep', find an event near you, or a global online event to join:
🌐 www.geodiversityday.org/find-an-event
#GeodiversityDay
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#urbangeology of the century on the Finchley Road, north London 🧵
Could this be the most important building in London this century? I think so! It’s a return to using stone structurally to build a 10 storey tower and hugely reducing the carbon impact of building. By Groupwork and Webb Yates engineers, Petra Heights on Finchley Road is monumental in so many ways 🧵
October 6, 2026 at 9:36 AM
#urbangeology of the century on the Finchley Road, north London 🧵
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Lovely day celebrating another #Beagle2
@ukspaceagency.bsky.social red plaque unveiling - today at the #Bristol #MShed with Colin Pillinger's daughter Shu and his sister Doreen. The plaque is now in the Bristol People Gallery - very fitting. Later we described the day on #BBCPointsWest
@ukspaceagency.bsky.social red plaque unveiling - today at the #Bristol #MShed with Colin Pillinger's daughter Shu and his sister Doreen. The plaque is now in the Bristol People Gallery - very fitting. Later we described the day on #BBCPointsWest
October 5, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Lovely day celebrating another #Beagle2
@ukspaceagency.bsky.social red plaque unveiling - today at the #Bristol #MShed with Colin Pillinger's daughter Shu and his sister Doreen. The plaque is now in the Bristol People Gallery - very fitting. Later we described the day on #BBCPointsWest
@ukspaceagency.bsky.social red plaque unveiling - today at the #Bristol #MShed with Colin Pillinger's daughter Shu and his sister Doreen. The plaque is now in the Bristol People Gallery - very fitting. Later we described the day on #BBCPointsWest
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🔎 #MineralMonday: BISMUTH & BARITE
Our final Mineral Monday before #EarthScienceWeek features two minerals found in cosmetics: #bismuth & #barite!
👉 Explore the #MineralogicalSocietyOfAmerica interactive to learn more: min4kids.org/minerals-your-house
Images: arbyreed & James St. John via Flickr
Our final Mineral Monday before #EarthScienceWeek features two minerals found in cosmetics: #bismuth & #barite!
👉 Explore the #MineralogicalSocietyOfAmerica interactive to learn more: min4kids.org/minerals-your-house
Images: arbyreed & James St. John via Flickr
October 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM
🔎 #MineralMonday: BISMUTH & BARITE
Our final Mineral Monday before #EarthScienceWeek features two minerals found in cosmetics: #bismuth & #barite!
👉 Explore the #MineralogicalSocietyOfAmerica interactive to learn more: min4kids.org/minerals-your-house
Images: arbyreed & James St. John via Flickr
Our final Mineral Monday before #EarthScienceWeek features two minerals found in cosmetics: #bismuth & #barite!
👉 Explore the #MineralogicalSocietyOfAmerica interactive to learn more: min4kids.org/minerals-your-house
Images: arbyreed & James St. John via Flickr
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Quick #MineralMonday from me! Have a few hematite included quartz and smoky crystals! Also congratulations to quartz winning the mineral cup!
October 5, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Quick #MineralMonday from me! Have a few hematite included quartz and smoky crystals! Also congratulations to quartz winning the mineral cup!
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Something quick for #MineralMonday, a pretty little beryl (aquamarine, I reckon) I broke out as an exemplar cyclosilicate for lab a couple weeks back. ⚒️🧪💎
October 5, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Something quick for #MineralMonday, a pretty little beryl (aquamarine, I reckon) I broke out as an exemplar cyclosilicate for lab a couple weeks back. ⚒️🧪💎
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For this #MineralMonday, I’m continuing to celebrate Quartz’s victory at #MinCup26, and to photograph the quartz specimens in the collection.
Here is a prase flower, a leek-green variety of quartz, with its characteristic slender crystals.
#mineral #crystal #macrophotography #focusstacking
Here is a prase flower, a leek-green variety of quartz, with its characteristic slender crystals.
#mineral #crystal #macrophotography #focusstacking
October 5, 2026 at 5:54 AM
For this #MineralMonday, I’m continuing to celebrate Quartz’s victory at #MinCup26, and to photograph the quartz specimens in the collection.
Here is a prase flower, a leek-green variety of quartz, with its characteristic slender crystals.
#mineral #crystal #macrophotography #focusstacking
Here is a prase flower, a leek-green variety of quartz, with its characteristic slender crystals.
#mineral #crystal #macrophotography #focusstacking
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Mineral Cup: Quartz wins!
www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/congratulations-quartz
www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/congratulations-quartz
Congratulations, Quartz! — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup
Congratulations to our 2026 Champion Quartz! Please check back tomorrow for full celebration.
www.mineralcup.org
October 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Mineral Cup: Quartz wins!
www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/congratulations-quartz
www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/congratulations-quartz
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Congratulations to our Mineral Cup 2026 Champion Quartz!
For #MinCup26, we collectively chose a nostalgic beauty of resilience as persistence as our champion. Please celebrate #Quartz, a friend to humans since time immemorial!
www.mineralcup.org/about/2026-q...
For #MinCup26, we collectively chose a nostalgic beauty of resilience as persistence as our champion. Please celebrate #Quartz, a friend to humans since time immemorial!
www.mineralcup.org/about/2026-q...
October 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Congratulations to our Mineral Cup 2026 Champion Quartz!
For #MinCup26, we collectively chose a nostalgic beauty of resilience as persistence as our champion. Please celebrate #Quartz, a friend to humans since time immemorial!
www.mineralcup.org/about/2026-q...
For #MinCup26, we collectively chose a nostalgic beauty of resilience as persistence as our champion. Please celebrate #Quartz, a friend to humans since time immemorial!
www.mineralcup.org/about/2026-q...
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One of the most frequent daydreams people share with us is a wish to win a specimen of the Champion.
This year, you can.
This year, you can.
Instructions:
1) Make your donation here: www.agu.org/honors/fmstg...
2) Forward your receipt to [email protected]
3) I will write your name on a slip and put it into a bucket, include your handle, per $15 donated
4) drawing 10/5/26 3 pm EDT
5) Free US shipping, subsidized international s/h
1) Make your donation here: www.agu.org/honors/fmstg...
2) Forward your receipt to [email protected]
3) I will write your name on a slip and put it into a bucket, include your handle, per $15 donated
4) drawing 10/5/26 3 pm EDT
5) Free US shipping, subsidized international s/h
Give to the AGU Student Travel Grant | AGU
Support the AGU Student Travel Grant.
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October 3, 2026 at 3:33 AM
One of the most frequent daydreams people share with us is a wish to win a specimen of the Champion.
This year, you can.
This year, you can.
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I can’t think of a more appropriate ending for the 10th Anniversary of #MinCup than Quartz winning, the mineral that started it all! Thank you to @mikamckinnon.bsky.social and the team for all the tireless work you do! The ballot stuffers can stuff it, though!
Cherryfurby: Who's Awesome? You're Awesome!
Alt: Cherryfurby: Who's Awesome? You're Awesome!
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October 2, 2026 at 11:33 AM
I can’t think of a more appropriate ending for the 10th Anniversary of #MinCup than Quartz winning, the mineral that started it all! Thank you to @mikamckinnon.bsky.social and the team for all the tireless work you do! The ballot stuffers can stuff it, though!
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Hooray! About time too.
And boo to the cheaters. Thank you to the team for keeping it honest, and to everyone for sharing wonderful facts and opinions about the minerals.
#MinCup26
And boo to the cheaters. Thank you to the team for keeping it honest, and to everyone for sharing wonderful facts and opinions about the minerals.
#MinCup26
October 2, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Hooray! About time too.
And boo to the cheaters. Thank you to the team for keeping it honest, and to everyone for sharing wonderful facts and opinions about the minerals.
#MinCup26
And boo to the cheaters. Thank you to the team for keeping it honest, and to everyone for sharing wonderful facts and opinions about the minerals.
#MinCup26
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I’m really pleased to see that FINALLY in its 10th year, Quartz has won the Mineral Cup! #MinCup26
Huge thanks to the tireless @mineralcup.bsky.social team who managed the yearly tournament with their usual flair & aplomb, including having to cope with some ridiculous cheating! Take a moment to
Huge thanks to the tireless @mineralcup.bsky.social team who managed the yearly tournament with their usual flair & aplomb, including having to cope with some ridiculous cheating! Take a moment to
October 2, 2026 at 12:18 PM
I’m really pleased to see that FINALLY in its 10th year, Quartz has won the Mineral Cup! #MinCup26
Huge thanks to the tireless @mineralcup.bsky.social team who managed the yearly tournament with their usual flair & aplomb, including having to cope with some ridiculous cheating! Take a moment to
Huge thanks to the tireless @mineralcup.bsky.social team who managed the yearly tournament with their usual flair & aplomb, including having to cope with some ridiculous cheating! Take a moment to
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#MinCup26 Congratulations to #quartz. And nice battle #cuprite. As a chemist and not a geologist I didn't know a lot about cuprite, but I learned a few things and it's probably in my top ten favorite minerals now.
October 2, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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Congrats to the mineralogical king of planet Earth, the universal SiO₂! Better luck in future years to all the other competitors (asagiite deserves another go after that tooth-clenching 2-vote loss). Thanks for the fun, guys! Looking forward to next year. #MinCup26
October 2, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Congrats to the mineralogical king of planet Earth, the universal SiO₂! Better luck in future years to all the other competitors (asagiite deserves another go after that tooth-clenching 2-vote loss). Thanks for the fun, guys! Looking forward to next year. #MinCup26
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I’m delighted that Quartz won the cup, though I’m not so keen on the ballot box stuffing.
Congratulations and long may Quartz go, because… #QuartzDeservesToWin
www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Another quick photo to celebrate!
#MinCup26
Congratulations and long may Quartz go, because… #QuartzDeservesToWin
www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Another quick photo to celebrate!
#MinCup26
Congratulations, Quartz! — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup
Congratulations to our 2026 Champion Quartz! Please check back tomorrow for full celebration.
www.mineralcup.org
October 2, 2026 at 5:34 AM
I’m delighted that Quartz won the cup, though I’m not so keen on the ballot box stuffing.
Congratulations and long may Quartz go, because… #QuartzDeservesToWin
www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Another quick photo to celebrate!
#MinCup26
Congratulations and long may Quartz go, because… #QuartzDeservesToWin
www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Another quick photo to celebrate!
#MinCup26
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The startling white #Quartzite of #Holyhead Mountain. Composed of almost pure #Quartz, this rock was quarried to create the 1.7 mile #Breakwater. For more than 150 years, resilient #Quartz has provided a safe harbour for shipping, enabling travel and trade. #MinCup26 #TeamQuartz
October 1, 2026 at 11:25 PM
The startling white #Quartzite of #Holyhead Mountain. Composed of almost pure #Quartz, this rock was quarried to create the 1.7 mile #Breakwater. For more than 150 years, resilient #Quartz has provided a safe harbour for shipping, enabling travel and trade. #MinCup26 #TeamQuartz
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October 1, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Hard choice again in #mincup26 finals, but I'm in for #Bergkristall (or #Quartz).
Apart from its usefulness for time keeping its use in decorative goblets in the 16th century is fascinating mastery!
Images from Fed. Art Collection Saxony:
skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Result/Index...
Apart from its usefulness for time keeping its use in decorative goblets in the 16th century is fascinating mastery!
Images from Fed. Art Collection Saxony:
skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Result/Index...
October 1, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Hard choice again in #mincup26 finals, but I'm in for #Bergkristall (or #Quartz).
Apart from its usefulness for time keeping its use in decorative goblets in the 16th century is fascinating mastery!
Images from Fed. Art Collection Saxony:
skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Result/Index...
Apart from its usefulness for time keeping its use in decorative goblets in the 16th century is fascinating mastery!
Images from Fed. Art Collection Saxony:
skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Result/Index...
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#Quartz is winning! Of quartz it is! This 3 billion year old fossil survived metamorphism because it was preserved in quartz before final burial. Field of view is 0.7 mm #MinCup26 #Geology #Paleontology
October 1, 2026 at 7:45 PM
#Quartz is winning! Of quartz it is! This 3 billion year old fossil survived metamorphism because it was preserved in quartz before final burial. Field of view is 0.7 mm #MinCup26 #Geology #Paleontology
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Never heard of Faden Quartz? You’re in for a treat!
#MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿
#MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿
#MineralMonday Faden quartz, Pakistan. richardigibson.substack.com/p/faden-quartz
⚒️ #geology . No MAGA! Science = Resistance! #standupforscience
⚒️ #geology . No MAGA! Science = Resistance! #standupforscience
Faden Quartz
A thread
richardigibson.substack.com
October 1, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Never heard of Faden Quartz? You’re in for a treat!
#MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿
#MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿
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October 1, 2026 at 8:08 PM