Michael Anenburg
@manenbu
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I make fake rocks & minerals at high pressures & temperatures. Admirer of carbonatites, rare earths, and geological miscellanies. At @anuearthscience. מיכאל.🐪✡
Canberra, Australia
Joined November 2014
Here's my failed attempt at a science photo competition, but I think you might like it.#ScientistAtWork
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We're hiring.Three year postdoc on geochemistry and petrology of ore-forming systems.
jobs.anu.edu.au
Classification: Academic Level B Salary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms: Full time, Fixed term (up to 3 years) The Position This postdoc will explore the geoche...
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The most fun image & video creation tool in the world is here. Try it for free in the Grok App.
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In carbonatites, alkalis are fluxes that keep melting points low. We discovered that upon reaction with surroundings silicates ("antiskarns"), alkalis are extracted to silicate minerals, solidifying the residual carbonatite magma into crystalline rock.
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New paper: we discovered a new way for magmas to crystallise (!), and it also made one of the largest known carbonatite REE deposits. Out now in Nature Communications: #geology @scienceanu @anuearthscience
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#ThinSectionThursday qeltite marked in pink, together with some gehlenite, wollastonite, nagelschmidtite, magnetite, and kalsilite. What is qeltite? Good question! See link in reply for the story.
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We tried to measure an apatite composition using many different methods and failed miserably, so we wrote a paper about it. Available at the Journal of Materials Chemistry B:
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RT @canberra_air: Due to neighbourhood wood heaters, we’re getting complaints from around Canberra of laundry needing to be rewashed and of….
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Close to home, this one is literally five minutes away from my parents house…😬.
A very difficult scene is developing in Be'er Sheva. It is being declared a mass casualty event. The building was apparently hit while many were still in their beds sleeping. Some may still be trapped. Emergency services are on the scene. Contributed by @inside_IL_intel
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Pro writing tip: When proof-reading a paper before submission or revision, change the font and print it out on paper. Trust me, you will find so many mistakes you had no idea were there, even though you've read the thing a million times on your computer screen.
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Can confirm. Just open the door or window and it smells like 100 bonfires outside.
It’s a failure of governance when the eastern seaboard of Australia has higher levels of air pollution than India and Southeast Asia due to Australian state and territories’ failure to tackle wood heater pollution.
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#ThinSectionThursday cathodoluminescence of fluorapatite and REE mineralisation from Nolans Bore, Australia. Other than being spectacular eye candy, this is very informative and tells quite a lot about the ore. Yay science!. Image taken at @CSIRO Microbeam Lab.
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RT @Tzahore: My lab at @WeizmannScience was completely demolished by the Iranian missile a few days ago. This is hard and sad as nothing w….
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RT @elongilad: 🧵 THREAD: The Arabic word that secretly names every magazine you read.You pick up a magazine. You load bullets into a machsa….
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#ThinSectionThursday Accidental platinum crystals, dissolved by calcium chloride flux from a platinum crucible and deposited on the MgO plate it was standing on
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