The Isle Of Lunga is always a special place to visit and spend a few hours, but right now, with both the sea pinks and bluebells in bloom, it's heavenly.
A distant view of mighty Duart Castle, standing guard over the entrance to the Sound of Mull from its location at the eastern tip of the Isle of Mull. A stone defensive structure was probably first built here in the mid-1200s. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/mull/duartcastle/index.html
#MinCup23 corundum vs lawsonite. Two super minerals! I've boosted lots of great lawsonite stuff, but I'm voting corundum. The blue variety, sapphire = speciality of the Isle of Mull, where I live. Corundum is common in melted xenoliths in the Loch Scridain Sill Complex. They can be up to 3cm, but big ones are *always" thin cracked plates. Here's a perfect gemmy wee micro crystal from the shore of Loch Scridain, collected by me, now in the Hunterian museum 😍 #Geology#Mull#Corundum
#DogWalkingGeology from this morning: lots of pink garnets up to about 20mm across in this Moine garnet amphibolite (meta-basalt) from Ardalanish. These garnet crystals grew about 450 million years ago. 😊 The pale grey rock above is meta-sandstone, so didn't have the right chemistry to grow any garnet: it just stayed as quartz. #Geology#Mull#Metamorphic
Mighty Duart Castle, dominating the sea lanes around the eastern side of the Isle of Mull. Probably fortified from much earlier, a stone castle was first built here in the mid 1200s and it became the base of Clan Maclean in 1367. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/mull/duartcastle/index.html
Mackinnon's Cave, at Gribun, in Mull is the longest non-sea cave in the Hebrides. The mouth is tidal, but most of the 150m length inside is nice and dry. It's eroded along a fault zone in Moine metasandstones. Here's a view from deep inside, peering out towards the entrance. #cave#Mull
The lovely Scoor Pelitic Gneiss unit looking fabulous in the winter sunshine on the south coast of Mull yesterday. It's Neoproterozoic to Caledonian in age, but exactly how many metamorphic episodes it's experienced, and when, remains a bit mysterious.🤓 😎 #Mull#Geology#Metamorphic#Moine
#DogWalkingGeology this cold-water carbonate beach sediment on Eilean Dubh na Ciste would make a fabulous limestone given the right geological chances (very slim alas 😁). Lots of maerl (calcareous algae), crab claws, cowries, periwinkles,limpets, echinoid plates, and many more 😊 #Mull#Geology#Biology#sedimentology
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Cold frosty afternoon, but lovely light for drone flying. These folded amphibolite-facies Moine rocks between Ardalanish and Uisken are looking very fine! 😊 🤩 #Geology#Folding#Mull
EU beschließt Verbot von Einweg-Plastik-Verpackungen ab 2030
Die EU sagt dem Einweg-Plastik den Kampf an - ab 2030 soll jede Verpackung recycelbar sein. Für viele Miniformate bedeutet das das Aus - etwa für kleine Ketchup-Packungen. Zudem setzt die EU künftig auf Mehrwegsysteme.
#MineralMonday Here's a gorgeous agate from the Paleocene basalts of South Mull, which was brought along to the Stone Chat event in Bunessan on Saturday. 😊😋🥰 #Geology#Mull#Agate#StoneChat
#DogWalkingGeology from yesterday.... Spud has found some garnet-tastic Moine metabasic tuffs(?) or maybe an intrusion. Each knobbly bit is a large garnet crystal, but alas they are never show external crystal faces, and are always stuffed with gazillions of quartz inclusions. Still, lovely to see! #Metamorphic#Garnet#Mull#Moine#Proterozoic 😊
The outstanding beach at Calgary Bay, near the north-western tip of the Isle of Mull. In 1876 its name was given to a fort that would become the city of Calgary in the western Canadian province of Alberta. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/mull/calgary/index.html