#geology
This isn’t my typical posting fare but I have a bigger audience here than anywhere else so hear me out:
If you follow this link: http://main.acsevents.org/goto/kickcancerinthepantser you can donate a dollar or two or ten to help me, personally, kick cancer in the pantser, because that’s what it deserves. The organization I work for is hosting a Relay for Life team, and we’re currently accepting donations!
I know times are tight and there’s nothing I can offer you except a shout out and a free mineral identification, but if you’ve read this far and want to help out that’d be awesome!
Stay frosty my friends.
My university updated the physical sciences building and tonight was the donor thank you night and since I’m the president of the geology club I got to go and prove I can’t be trusted around the dessert table. Planet themed cake pops!
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I took Intro to Geology in high school, and our mineral identification lab consisted of, I wanna say, about twenty minerals.
I was top of my class and little sixteen year old me thought “Yep. That’s it. That’s all the minerals there are.”
And then, three years later, I took mineralogy.
Boy howdy.
“Quartz; it’s the crystal-ass looking crystal” -me, explaining rudimentary mineralogy concepts to my coworkers
It’s all fun and games until you accidentally see your fingers under a microscope.
Uwuids: Sphewes of CaCO3 up to 2mm fowmed by diwect chwemicaw pwecipitation by intewnaw concentwic stwuctuwe
A surprising landscape in southwestern Wyoming, Boar’s Tusk is the remaining core of a long dormant volcanic eruption.
Made of an uncommon rock called lamproite, the butte rises 400 feet above the sandy valley floor. It’s a distinct landmark for anyone, or anything, travelling through this area.
Photo by Bob Wick, @mypubliclands. Photo description: Rolling hills of sand dunes covered in wind swept ripples. In the distance a chimney shaped rock formation.
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Behold, the beauty of geology
At the Endeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the underwater landscape is littered with angular fragments of basalt that were the remnants of an old lava lake. This is a region that was once filled with hot lava and eventually drained. As the ROV Doc Ricketts flew by this area, researchers could see evidence of this cooling and draining in the stacked horizontal layers. The platy horizontal layers of basaltic lava along the back wall were once part of a solid platy surface layer of basalt covering a molten lake of lava. As this molten lava drained, a new top surface was exposed, and a new horizontal platy layer was formed. The pillars were actually created by seawater—as hot magma flowed into the lake during the eruption, some water was trapped below. Being less dense, this water escaped upward through the lava, solidifying tubes of basalt on its ascent. We call these “pit and pillar” features.You lava to sea it
