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The fascinating, awe inspiring, beer drinking world influenced by the earth's oldest science. This blog is about all things geology. Landmarks, minerals, sedimentary deposition, pretty pictures, and humor all fall into this category.
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Anticlinal, sinclinal.
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Photographs, by Melinda, of the China Danxia, a unique landform between the Guizhou and Zhejiang Provinces in China. Via Double Takes
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Cool Geology of the Day:
Waimea Canyon, Island of Kauai, Hawaii. The canyon was eroded by rainfall out of the volcanic rock making up the island.
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Gas Crater, Turkmenistan
Photograph by Nick Hannes, Hollandse Hoogte/Redux
This gas crater in Darvaza, located in Turkmenistan’s Karakum desert, has been burning for decades. Although the country’s natural gas reserves rank fifth in the world, development of gas exports is hampered by a lack of gas pipeline routes outside its landlocked borders.
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A good geology weekend in Arkansas.
TA-ing is the bomb. Camping, hiking, and looking at rocks, but no class work to do after :)
Arkansas is one of my favorites places.
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3-D model of topographic map in northern White Rock Canyon. Source: Lite Geology, Number 32, Fall 2012
That’s so cool! All topographic maps should be like this.
That’s such a cool map, reminds me of DUN-DU-DU-DU-DUN-DU-DU-DU-DUN-DU-DU-DU-DUN-DU-DU-DU……
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early 1800, Alexandre-Isidore Leroy De Barde, Crystallized Minerals
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my geological time scale poster came in the mail yaaaay
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Petrology Field Trip 2: Metamorphic Boogaloo (more cont.)
LAST AND FINAL STOP!!! After getting some supplies at the Vermont Country Store (heck yeah), we scrambled over a hill to see: GIGANTIC FREAKIN GARNETS!!! The rock was a Silurian pelite, making it much younger than the other rocks we’d seen that day. The garnets were able to get so big because there were so few of them (comparatively). It was awesome.
We were supposed to go to Buttermilk Falls after this, but we went straight back to campus instead so we could get there on time. And thus, our second Petrology came to a close! :D
