Keele Geology

There is a very exciting PhD opportunity @KeeleGGE to work with Dr Ralf Gertisser (@RGertisser) on recently drilled samples taken during IODP expedition 398 in the Hellenic arc. @KeeleGeology @KeeleUniversity tinyurl.com/4vwuzh9j

Join us for open day today (Saturday 19 Nov). Talks at 10:30, 12:00 & 13:30 and drop-in chats until 15:00.

Hi geoscience students! 👋 Have you registered for our virtual careers days yet? 🗓️ 18 - 20 October 🧑💻 Interesting sessions spanning the breadth of geoscience ✅ Meet industry professionals & experts Find out more & register here: geolsoc.org.uk/10-Virtual-Car… #GSLCareers22

Your team for the @KeeleGeology fieldcourse to Pembrokeshire. Ralf2 @KeelePetrology, Steve @SLRogersGeol, Stu C @BDRG_Keele and yours truly @hypocentre

Congratulations to Dr. Jamie Pringle (@milgeol) of @KeeleGGE on his promotion to Reader! 👏👏👏

Welcome to a snowy @KeeleUniversity for our Applicant Visit Day. General course talks, volcanology and geophysics sessions, but due to the weather our geology campus walk has been cancelled.

Archive photo: Calc-silicate pegmatite from Torö, Sweden. Keele Collection.

@KeeleUniversity The original @KeeleGeology building* (the one on the left, not the one in the background). [*might be geography, with geology in a twin one next door]

The perfect place to create life-long memories 💚 #ThrowbackThursday

Archive photo: A calc-silicate paragneiss from Torö, Sweden. Keele Collection.

P-wave from today’s (04:16:01 2022/02/05) M5.7 earthquake in Afghanistan recorded on my @raspishake in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England.

Archive photo: Pegmatite vein from Julita, Sweden. Keele Collection.

Archive photo: Ursand Granite, an alkali granite from Dalsland Sweden. Keele Collection.

Archive photo: Mafic augen granite gneiss from the basement to the Åmål supracrustals, Dalsland, Sweden. Keele Collection.

Archive photo: Porphyry from the Åmål supracrustals, 20km south of Åmål, Sweden. Keele Collection.

Archive photo: Alkali granite, much recrystallised. Alkali feldspar, plagioclase, quartz and biotite (recrystalised to chlorite and epidote). Dalsland, Sweden. Keele Collection.

Open day for @KeeleGeology @KeeleUniversity. First talk at 10:30 and general chats all day.

End of an era. Finally being kicked out of our old main teaching lab. Shiny new shared science labs are very nice but there is a lot of history here. Builders are in on Monday.

Archive photo: Felsic tuff from the Åmål supracrustals, Dalsland, Sweden. Keele Collection.

Archive photo: Åmål granite. A recrystalised alkali granite with alkali feldspar, plagioclase, quartz, biotite, muscovite and epidote. Åmål, Sweden. Keele Collection.

Archive photo: Great Oolite (or more formally the Jurassic [Bathonian] Chalfield Oolite Formation). Keele Collection.