The #ThinSectionThursday tradition has been very quiet of late. I'm going to try to get back to tooting something every week...

This looks like a shitstorm of stuff flying over the battlements of some dark fortress.

The "stuff" = mullite crystals. The white sky = plagioclase, the battlements = dendritic plagioclase crystallites, & darkness = glass. FOV ~2mm wide. Plane polarized light illumination.

The rock is an aluminous xenolith from the Rubh a' Chromain sill, Mull. #Geology #Mull

#Müll auf illegalen Abfalllagern in #Brandenburg bleibt großes Problem>>>
https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2025/04/illegale-muelldeponien-kosten-brandenburg-millionen-euro.html

I still have a few dates available for otter photography workshops when I'm on the Isle Of Mull, this May and June.

Available to novices and professionals alike.

This image was from a two-day otter photography workshop last May.

See my website for details.

Harbour #Seal on the Isle Of #Mull

Rund 6.000 Kubikmeter illegal entsorgter #Müll liegt in den Wäldern von #Brandenburg .

Besonders viel Müll im #Wald befindet sich in den Landkreisen Havelland, Oberhavel und Barnim >>>
https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2025/04/illegal-entsorgter-muell-brandenburg-problem-wald.html

Mull Music Festival this weekend. I've not gone to it for years, but plenty others will be. I was chatting to someone yesterday who said I introduced him to it... and this will be his 21st MMF in a row! #Tobermory #Mull #MullMusicFestival

Here's a large pale green apatite grain in a massive, slightly smoky quartz vein from the Moine metamorphic rocks near Bunessan in Mull. This crystal is a pretty eroded and fractured, but definite potential in this stuff... #Mineralogy #Geology #Mull #Phosphate

Out looking at metamorphic rocks on the south coast of Mull last week. We weren't expecting an ostrich! #Pareidolia #ThingsThatLookLikeOtherThings #Mull #Ostrich #Moine #Metamorphic

Vor 50 Jahren war hier noch eine #Müllkippe für drei Gemeinden (ca. 3000Ew). Vorher genügte noch jedem Haushalt EIN Blechmülleimer à 50 Liter. Wöchentliche Lehrung. Dann kamen Plastik-Verpackungen.
Zukünftige Archäologen werden hier rosafarbene #Plastik-Perwollflaschen o.ä. finden.

Rèis thunnaige-mhòr na Càisge! Selling ducks for the Great Easter Duck Race in Bunessan this morning. Prize for best name went to Quacky Chan #Easter #Gàidhlig #Ducks #Mull

#Geograph Picture of the Day #POTD from the Isle of #Mull, #Scotland 2014
#coast #rocks #bandedrock #geology #landscape #coast #photography
Coastline at Rubha nam Bràithrean

Https://geograph.org.uk/p/4176696
Free to share – please credit Claire Pegrum/Geograph

See also https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4176709

Keine Ahnung warum die #Recycling Quoten in #München nicht höher sind; an den schönen und regelmäßig geleerten Wertstoffinseln kann es ja nicht liegen…
/Sarkasmus
#müll

Lugworms at Kinloch Buie (Ceann Loch Buidhe). #Mull #Scotland

https://www.europesays.com/de/23257/ Berlin & Brandenburg: Große Mengen Müll brennen auf Recyclinghof in Werneuchen #AktuelleNachrichtenAusBerlinUndBrandenburg #AktuelleNachrichtenAusBrandenburg #AktuelleNewsAusBerlinUndBrandenburg #AktuelleNewsAusBrandenburg #Berlin #BerlinUndBrandenburg #Brandenburg #Deutschland #Germany #Groe #Mengen #Müll #Recyclinghof #Werneuchen

Grand day in the Mull hills yesterday. Here are some superb ice-moulded ridges of quartz gabbro (ring dyke? of Centre 2, Paleocene) just south of Mam Clachaig. A' Chioch (mountain on left) and Beinn Fhada (right) in distance. #Mountains #Mull #Geology #Glaciation

Mighty Duart Castle, dominating the sea lanes around the eastern side of the Isle of Mull. Probably fortified from much earlier, a stone castle was first built here in the mid 1200s and it became the base of Clan Maclean in 1367. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/mull/duartcastle/index.html

Mehrere dieser Lachgas-Kartuschen lagen an Samstagmorgen auf einem größeren Parkplatz. Beworben u.a. mit "Zusätzlich ermöglichen unsere nahtlosen Zylinder ein Geschmackserlebnis ohne unangenehme chemische Nuancen." Toll
Sollte der freie Verkauf nichtmal verboten werden?
Wer nachlesen möchte, welche Gesundheitsgefahren davon ausgehen, lese gerne den Wikipedia-Artikel https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distickstoffmonoxid#Toxikologie

Excellent visit earlier this week to Torosay Sand Limited's gravel quarry in eastern Mull. Most of the quarry consists of bedded gravel and sand deposited by glacial melt rivers around 16 to 15 thousand years ago when most of Scottish glacier ice melted away. But these are overlain by a couple of meters of grey till produced by local Mull glaciers during the "Loch Lomond Readvance" when ice grew again in western Scotland between about 13000 and 11700 years ago. #Geology #Glaciation #Mull