Benjamin Gill

@sedgeochem.bsky.social

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Biogeochemist. Dad. Earth Historian. Gardener. Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech. He/him.

Cover of the the book Masters of Air by Donald Miller. Photograph that is the backdrop of the cover is of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber on the ground with it aircrew in front of it.
Joker in the movie the Dark Knight burning a pile of money
Drs. Amy Hagen and Ben Gill stand next to Amy's dissertation presentation entitled Geochemical, paleontological and sedimentological exploration of the co-evolution of life and environment during the Cambrian Period.
Photograph taken below Table Mountain in Newfoundland with a stream sourced from snow that can be seen near the summit that is flowing over brown and tan rocks.
Scanning photomicrographs of cyanobacterial fossils from the 508-million-year-old Cambrian Harkless Formation of western Nevada. The fossil appear as microscopic filamentous chains of cells.
Movie poster for Wayne's World. It has the main characters, Wayne and Garth, looking upwards at the camera with a background of the sky behaind them.
Google Scholar entry for a young Earth creationist paper entitled "North American Precambrian Geology: A Proposed Young Earth Biblical Model"
Large, yellow and red bloom of corpse flower with two people smelling the it on the right.
Graphic of the skeleton wearing a partial unzipped the as an outfit of the Hokie Bird - the Virginia Tech mascot.
A meme of Ian Malcom, a character from the movie Jurassic Park played by Jeff Goldblum, with the text that states: "Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could... they didn’t stop to think if they should."
A laptop computer surrounded by a wipe board, dry erase markers, and mineral, rock, and fossil specimens.
Impression of a coiled cephalopod shell in a grey limestone.
Photomicrograph of a limestone rock containing ooids: carbonate sand grains that have concentric rings on their insides. The ooids are surrounded by white, block calcite cement.
Outcrop of grey limestone containing many fragments of crinoid fossils.
A photomicrograph of a limestone rock that contains pieces of trilobite fossils that look like a smiley face
Cicada nymph on a tree trunk.
Microbial mats in a stream. Mats consists of green stringers with gas bubbles on them.
Surface of a limestone rock with oval shaped fossils of receptaculites on it.
Surface of a limestone rock with fossils of trilobites, bryozoans, and crinoids on it.
Outcrop of a rock with semi-circular microbialites exposed on the rock's surface.