Finley Gilchrist

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Volcanolophile 🌋 | PhD from NHM and BBKEPS in igneous petrology and geochemistry 🔬🧪 | Ultimate Frisbee | Hiking | Figuring things out and catching up on reading

Photo of the poster pointing at the fossil ribcage of an unknown creature in a limestone block at the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza

Photograph of a chevron fault on a beachside cliff, approximately 4 metres tall

Approximately 15 cm wide ammonite in a pale grey coloured paving stone made of nodular limestone.

Plane polarised light image of a thin section of a crystalline xenolith, showing plagioclase and orthopyroxene as the dominant phases, as well as a biotite and amphibole-rich cluster in the right of the image.

Resin cast of a crab drinking a glass of beer

View of the Langdales Pikes and Stickle tarn looking moody in sunshine and shadows

BSE image of highly zoned plagioclase crystals