Angus Miller
@Geowalks
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Walks & holidays exploring Scotland's geology, and its influence on landscape & people. Edinburgh Uni Teaching Fellow, founding Trustee Scottish Geology Trust.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined February 2011
Well you know me, always happy to follow a trend ... you'll find me here, and there
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Ha 'renowned geologist'! Well if you say nice things about me of course I'm going to share ... Looking forward to this!
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St Anthony's Chapel, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh (Scotland) @UndisScot image & reconstruction. Repaired in 1426 with funds from the Pope. Likely damaged in 1400 during siege on Edinburgh Castle by King Henry IV of England. #StAnthonysChapel #ScottishChurches #HistoryRebuilt
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On dark days, seek solace from the processes of the Earth. Everything passes, and we're all doomed anyway.
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I'm doing a talk for @HistEnvScot in Holyrood Park about the Arthur's Seat volcano. Sunday 24 November, 1.30pm.
historicenvironment.scot
With Events on throughout the year and across Scotland, you'll be spoiled for choice.
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New Publication! The Geology of Scotland, 5th Edition Available in paperback https://t.co/ojnOlxuIvB or hardback https://t.co/lSD6pBsK8l
#GeologyOfScotland #Geology #EarthScience #ScottishGeology
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The Siccar Point unconformity this morning, such a peaceful place to contemplate deep time. The textbook view usually only shows a small part of the rocky platform, a varying unconformity surface reflecting erosion of the underlying rock before deposition of the upper layers.
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Concretions in Carboniferous sandstone at Cocklawburn beach, Northumberland. Looks reminiscent of the cup-and-ring carvings in the Fell Sandstone inland, however this is a natural phenomena.
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We're running it again, this time in Bunessan in the Ross of Mull! "100 years of Mull Geology" Bunessan Village Hall Firday 1st Nov 2024, 7 till 9 pm Click on images to enlarge for more info!
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This week the GeoBus Without Borders team were in Keetmanshoop, Namibia, with our colleagues from @GRINDicdp and Geological Survey of Namibia to deliver workshops for teachers, @unam_na students and students from J A Nel, PK de Villiers & Keetmanshoop Senior Secondary Schools.
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New on GeoGuide, in honour of the 100 anniversary of the publication of the Mull memoir - now released on GeoGuide https://t.co/GUwP7YsZ6U
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⛰️ Come along to @scottishgeology 's FREE GeoConservation Gathering this #GeodiversityDay, 6 October in Edinburgh. We’ll be sharing the recently updated guidance on establishing and managing local nature conservation site systems. Book ➡️ https://t.co/NkU4PpgPO9
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Congratulations amazing @EvieLovesNature winning Lifetime Achievement Award at Climate Action Awards ScotParl last night #HolyroodClimateAwards in recognition of her amazing work on range of environmental issues over years and in particular founding and leading @Earth_in_Common
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Reminder: Friday 27th Sept, 1830 - 2100 at An Tobar, Tobermory Admission free 100 Years of Mull Geology Join Dr John Faithfull and me as we celebrate 100 years since the publication of the "Mull Memoir" Talks, exhibits, maps, superb chat, all questions answered! 😀
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Great news that @ArranGeopark is proposed for endorsement as a UNESCO Global Geopark. Well done to the team behind this great initiative, and I'm proud to have played a small part in getting the ball rolling in 2017! https://t.co/uY04rdz2tq
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I've commented here before about the bad decision by the John Muir Trust to pause the #johnmuiraward. Turns out that is just one aspect of what's going wrong with the Trust. What a mess. Full details here
tfn.scot
Insider dossier raises questions over finance, redundancies, governance and more
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@scottishgeology Geosites & Geoguide: Angus Miller for @scottishgeology Scottish Geology Festival. Introducing key to local maps & info. Scottish Geosites: https://t.co/vFJOGe8ffu Scottish Geoguide: https://t.co/6Zv4GgPedu
#ScotGeolFest24 #Geosites #Geoguide #geology #Scotland #ScottishGeology ⚒️
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For #ScotGeolFest24 we’re running a new Drawn to Rocks workshop with artist Vojta Hybl Take inspiration from a tour of our geological collection and then have a go at sketching your favourite specimen under Vojta’s guidance! Details and tickets here:
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Explore rocks from both creative and scientific points of view with the guidance of science artist Vojta Hýbl of Rocks on Paper.
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SGT’s Geosites project aims to bring together info on Scotland’s important geological sites, to make it easy for people to find out about them, share info & report issues. On 12th Sept (6:30) join project leader Angus Miller & volunteers to learn more about Geosites & Geoguide!
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