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Ancient marine mammal buried in mud 5 to 7 million years ago, at low tide today. #KingTides #FossilFriday #PurisimaFormation
More marine mammal bones exposed by negative tide. #FossilFriday #KingTides #LowTide ImageImageImageImage
This fossil bone looks like a 3 foot long scimitar.. maybe a rib fossil bone. ImageImage
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this is a long thread on #nauru, where i spent last week. nauru is currently most visible as a site for australia’s offshore detention of asylum seekers and refugees. it is also the location of a longstanding #phosphate mine which covers over 2/3 of the island 1/22
#nauru is experiencing considerable #climatechange. im going to outline some of the social-environmental stresses i observed that nauruans, refugees and asylum seekers are facing, and why we need to talk about #colonialism and #environmental racism for #climatejustice 2/22
#nauru is a beautiful island. its main resource is #phosphate. germany colonised nauru in the late 1800s and in the early 1900s the british found phosphate and started to exploit it for fertiliser and munitions with australia and nz, who became nauru’s trustees in the 1920s 3/22
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