This week for #TakeoverThursday we have @elowenamos, a geology Honours student from @SciMelb @UnimelbESPG!

Elowen is going to tell us what a geology field trip entails and some of the work that comes from fieldwork samples! 🧗

Perfect timing for @earthsciweek 🌏 Elowen standing outdoors in a hilly environment. She is wear
In a brief break between Victorian lockdowns in May, I was fortunate to be able to do fieldwork for my Honours project 🛣️🚗

As part of this field trip, I traveled to the beautiful lands of the Adnyamathanha, an area you may know as the Flinders Ranges and surrounds 🌄 Semi-arid landscape at sunset. In the distance are gentle hi
My motivation to undertake fieldwork was to collect samples of rocks from the early #Cambrian period, over 500 million years ago!

These rocks contain all sorts of treasures, including fossils of the very wacky-looking Archaeocyatha, like in this awesome @melbournemuseum model Geological map for the Copley map area in South Australia
For me, a day in the field starts with discussion and planning the night before around the fire! 🔥

This is when we decide where we are going to try and get the next day and what the goal will be 🌟 Campfire illuminating a figure sitting on a camp chair
Good planning and a bit of luck results in great outcrops like these!

These rocks have preserved not only fossils organisms from the past, but clues about the environment that they were living in – this is what I’m really interested in 🧩🔍🧭 A pinkish red rock with variable texture. There are white crGrey and white rock containing Archaeocyath fossils. A lens
Back in the lab (👩‍🔬), we look at very thin slices of the collected rock to reveal details about the textures and minerals that are in them!
We also zap crystals within rocks with a laser to determine the proportion of different elements, to help to uncover the rocks secrets 🤫 Thin section photomicrograph of Cambrian Carbonate. Two diff
I love geology because of the power it gives us to understand the history of the Earth!

Geology gives us the tools to translate the message and read the history of the landscapes around us, without it rocks are like a language we can’t translate. What could be cooler than that! Elowen standing on some rocks. Arms raised in a questioning
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Watch the video here: bit.ly/3ohlWtl 👈
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