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Clarke Earth Science Museum UWA

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 6488 2681

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24.01.2022 The result of any geologist going on holiday:

23.01.2022 Is Australia at risk of a volcanic eruption?!?! Associate Professor Heather Handley of the Volcanic and Magmatic Research Group at Macquarie University is running a survey to better understand people's perceptions of volcanic hazards in Australia. Click the link below to take part; the results will be used to develop resources for state emergency services https://mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Cs0DGwb7wNVvo1 #EarthScienceResearch #FromTheField #EdCCEarthScienceMuseum

20.01.2022 Congratulations to the students of EART3353 who have just returned from their fieldwork in Kambalda! The 3353 crew logged core at a nickel-gold mine, and mapped out the highly deformed komatiite lavas, subaqueous basalts, and volcaniclastic sediments of the Kambalda/Kalgoorlie Sequences. #FromTheField #UWASchoolOfEarthSciences #EarthScience #Geology #UWAStudents

20.01.2022 These boots were made for field trips . Juliet has been busy this semester, assembling this exhibit about where @universitywa students’ boots will take them as undergrad #geologists . Take a look, it’s right outside Woolnough Lecture Theatre... . . . . @uwa_science @uwawoolnoughsociety #earthscience #museum #volunteer #volunteering #fieldtrip #geology See more

19.01.2022 Get your tickets before this sells out! The museum will be lookin it’s absolute best for the occasion

19.01.2022 New research published today in Scientific Reports stems from material housed in our museum! Prof Marco Fiorentini and PhD student Eunjoo Choi used geochemical analyses to fingerprint rocks collected from Masters #fieldtrips to the Bushveld complex in South Africa, and samples from the Yilgarn Craton that are part of the Nick Rock Collection in our care. Their research shows that WA’s volcanos erupting 2 billion years ago were a result of a mantle plume under South Africa, ...which was roughly 4000km away at the time Read the paper here -> www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76800-0 #fieldworkfriday #volcanoes #geology #earthscience

18.01.2022 Best of luck to students from EART2234 and EART3353 who are heading into the field next week! #uwaschoolofearthsciences #edccearthsciencemuseum

18.01.2022 Olivine = mood #MineralMonday #EdCCEarthScienceMuseum #UWASchoolOfEarthSciences

17.01.2022 Every day is old rock day for us.

17.01.2022 so that’s where he got to. Happy Holidays y’all May they be Magnum and bright.

17.01.2022 One of the most exciting aspects of Earth Science is that it is an interdisciplinary field. Earth Scientists draw on a wide range of tools from geology, chemistry, physics, and even computer science to better understand the complex world around us #EdCCEarthScienceMuseum #UWASchoolofEarthSciences #UniversityofWesternAustralia

16.01.2022 Cape Liptrap is one of the most southernly points of the Australian mainland, and it features spectacularly deformed sequences of turbidites, volcaniclastics, and limestones that were lain down during the Cambrian. The "Venus Bay to Cape Liptrap" track is a 2-day hike that offers some of the best outcrops for studying structural geology in Australia 10/10 would recommend :) #FoldFriday #FromTheField #EdCCEarthScienceMuseum

15.01.2022 Happy #FossilFriday y'all Australia has a brand spankin' new Titanosaur thanks to Dr Steve Poropat & co. up in Queensland. Welcome these lords of chonk. Their wide-hips dont lie.... #dummythic #dinosaurs

15.01.2022 Hungry for an afternoon snack? It's vegan.

14.01.2022 Who needs human friends when you can have volcano friends? Marco was interviewed live on 6PR today, tune in to hear all about his new paper! #earthscience #volcanoes #Geology

12.01.2022 r/AskAcademia asking the real questions #OfQuartzEarthScienceRocks! #EdCCEarthScienceMuseum #UWASchoolOfEarthSciences

12.01.2022 Oh no... I think Magnum managed to sneak out today. Hopefully he finds his way back after the break without getting up to too much mischief (is he even old enough for that Tinder account?)

11.01.2022 In preparation for 18 school groups coming through the Museum over the next two weeks, we though it neccessary to prepare some notes for the kiddos, on how to identify rocks the way professional geologists do.

10.01.2022 A refreshing drink after that mineral egg?

09.01.2022 Looking for a new podcast to tune in to now that exams are done?

09.01.2022 The actual moment I discovered my love for geology (colourised, 2013) When did you discover your passion for earth science? #earthscience #museum #geology #EdCCEarthScienceMuseum #UWASchoolofEarthSciences #UniversityofWesternAustralia

08.01.2022 Congratulations to the brave students of EART2234 who two weeks ago tackled the Ninghan field mapping trip! #FromTheField #EdCCEarthScienceMuseum

08.01.2022 Magnum NO! It appears as though old mate has decided to take himself on his own holiday rather than staying put over the break.... Does he even have a drivers license? This is the last time we agree to look after him between Woolnough Society committee hand overs.

06.01.2022 There be GOLD in these rocks! Our historic collection has some interesting stories to tell. . Old assorted tins are common storage containers in the museum, minimal (or no) budgets are not a new concept so we used whatever was available at the time to house our objects. .... This specimen is a sample from ‘McAllum’s Claim’ near the old Goldfields mining town of Duketon. Although hard to see, there’s a fair bit of gold in that sample! . Despite the richness of the gold in this deposit this specimen was probably used for teaching at the time, along with a collection of other gold-bearing chunks we’d be over the moon to collect from the field today! . . . #gold #mining #goldfields #museum #museums #minerals #earthscience #geology See more

05.01.2022 Did you know that Australia is home to one of the largest ACTIVE volcanic fields in the world? The Newer Volcanic Province (NVP) is a monogenetic, continental intraplate, basaltic volcanic province. The youngest volcanoes in the province, Mt Schank and Mt Gambier, are only 5,000 years old, and are still considered active by volcanologists. Although the NVP is a monogenetic province (each volcano only erupted once), it shows a wide variety of eruption processes, including effu...sive lava flows, which lead to the formation of shield volcanoes, and explosive eruptions, leading to pyroclastic flows and surges. When these volcanic rocks eroded, they formed the rich, fertile farmland allowing for agriculture in western Victoria. Although Australia is an ancient continent, that doesn’t mean it’s static: Australia’s geology and geography is dynamic and constantly changing, creating some of the most unique environments in the world. #FromTheField #Volcanoes #EarthScience