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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Rocks from #China's #Moon mission suggest Luna history revision
18 researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, assess #paleointensity – a measure of historical #magneticfield. #Basalt samples thought to be 2.8B years old. Analysis suggests Moon's magnetic field has increased in strength. Moon once possessed a strong "dynamo" – the term for forces that create celestial bodies' magnetic fields – but it weakened around 3.1B years ago and shut down around 1B years ago.
theregister.com/2024/12/20/chi

The Register · Rocks from Chinese Moon mission suggest Luna's history needs revisionBy Simon Sharwood
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Samples obtained by #China's #Change6 #spacecraft show #moon's ancient #volcanism
Researchers said the soil brought back from the Chang'e-6 landing site contained fragments of volcanic rock - #basalt - dating to 4.2 billion years ago and to 2.8 billion years ago. This points to a long period of volcanic activity - at least 1.4 billion years - on the far side during the first half of the moon's history, when it was a more dynamic world than it is today.
yahoo.com/news/samples-obtaine

Yahoo News · Samples obtained by Chinese spacecraft show moon's ancient volcanismBy Will Dunham
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Basalt Column Peninsula

These basalt columns are part of the spectacular Jogasaki Coast on the Izu Peninsula in Japan. They formed about 4000 years ago after an eruption of Mount Omuro. The lava flowed into the ocean, causing it to cool into these hexagonal columns.

Nikon D500, AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm F3.5-5.6G ED VR, 40 mm, f7.1, 1/640s, ISO 500, handheld
#landscape #pacific #geology #basalt #cliff #photography #japan #digikam #darktable
A photograph of a small peninsula reaching into the ocean. The peninsula consists of gray basalt rocks sitting on basalt columns forming a vertical cliff. The columns are hexagonal, have sharp edges and look man-made. The columns near or in the ocean are smaller than the ones further up. Green trees are growing on top of the rocks.
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John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧡✊🏻✊🏿

Another sunny day in Mull 🤯 . After meeting 2 nice lots of geologists from Leicester + Innsbruck Universities at Ardalanish this morning, headed off for picnic lunch at the enigmatically-named Eilean an t-Santachaidh (island of covetouness/desire) which is not actually an island, but hard to reach by land. Note the two intrepid sheep taking advantage of low tide to nibble seaweed. Geo info in Alt text. #Mull #Granite #Basalt #Sheep

A view of a rocky coast made of pink granite (The Ross of Mull Granite - Silurian/Devonian) on a hot, sunny, hazy day, looking over blue blue sea, under a blue blue sky to mountains fringed by high dark cliffs facing the camera. These are made of Palaeocene basalt lava flows... On the rocky headland nearest the camera, two intrepid sheep are looking for seaweed snacks near low tide level.
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