John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴🧡✊🏻✊🏿<p>New open access preprint (based on some old work 😑 ) looking at the "Stotfield Cherty Rock" (a Triassic silcrete/calcrete) which turns out to have been used in archaeological tool-making... It looks fabulous under 254nm UV light - so much going on in these rocks. 🤓 🤩 More here: </p><p><a href="https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/9450/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eartharxiv.org/repository/view</span><span class="invisible">/9450/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lithics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lithics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Duricrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Duricrust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Calcrete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Calcrete</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Silcrete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Silcrete</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lossiemouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lossiemouth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MorayFirth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MorayFirth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Sedimentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sedimentary</span></a></p>