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Geology Photo of the Week #28

Matt Herod April 2, 2013 Photo of the Week 1 Comment

Happy April Fools/Easter everyone! I know that I am a day late, but yesterday was a holiday in Canada. Spring is also in the air, not today actually since it is -7 currently, but we have no more snow, and we had a few nice days over the Easter weekend. It is therefore appropriate for the photo of the week to be something eggy.

A piece of Pleistocene emu egg shell. Found near an ancient aboriginal campground in South Australia. (Photo: Matt Herod)

This photo is of a fragment of Pleistocene age emu egg shell that was found in Port Augusta, South Australia.

Bonus Photo: The duck-billed platypus, a monotreme and one only two types of egg laying mammal in the world.

Platypus (Photo: Matt Herod)

Cheers,

Matt

Australia

By Matt Herod

Matt Herod is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. His research focuses on the geochemistry of iodine and the radioactive isotope iodine-129. His work involves characterizing the cycle and sources of 129I in the Canadian Arctic and applying this to long term radioactive waste disposal and the effect of Fukushima fallout. His project includes field work and lab work at the André E. Lalonde 3MV AMS Laboratory. Matt blogs about any topic in geology that interests him, and attempts to make these topics understandable to everyone. Tweets as @GeoHerod.

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Gillian B April 3, 2013, 10:53 pm

And I turned to my husband and poked him and said “See! I’m not the only person who takes their $2 coin on holidays and takes lots of photos of it in interesting rocky locations!!!!”

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