Happy Thanksgiving #geology

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Check your Halloween candy carefully. Someone tried to hide the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary layer in mine. #Geology

🌋 Kīlauea is showing off again! This Hawaiian volcano – one of the world’s most active – has been erupting in an unusual stop-and-go style #Geology

Let's explain rocks by sandwiches. Trust me. Earth builds rock three main ways: it stacks, it cools from melt, or it presses and reheats what it already made. #Geology 🧵

There’s a literal leak at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean—plugged straight into the Cascadia megathrust. Scientists call it Pythia’s Oasis. It’s a spring on the seafloor that shoots out warm, almost‑fresh water like a firehose. Yes, from right above the fault. #Geology🧵

That's no mere rolling rock—it's a "volcanic bomb" launched from the La Palma vent like a cannonball. This molten boulder hit the steep ash cone and just kept rolling, carving a path for over a kilometer. Geologists dubbed these terrifying projectiles "spallation bombs."

Earth—Patch Notes v4.56 Ga – Fixed supercontinent crash loop (not a bug, a feature). – Magnetic field auto‑renewal improved. – Rift DLC now ships with passive margins. – Ocean balance: fewer BIF drops, more plankton. – Known issue: roads vs. landslides.

Rocks keep tiny compasses. When they cooled, iron minerals locked in whatever “north” was trending. Lay them across the seafloor and you get zebra stripes of magnetic nostalgia. My phone can’t remember yesterday’s Wi‑Fi. #Geology

In my opinion the problem with Jurassic Park isn’t cloning dinosaurs. It’s building on a tropical island with that many steep slopes and zero landslide mitigation. #Geology

Have you heard about a volcano that erupts black lava and turns it snow-white in hours? Meet Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania – often called the world’s most unique. It’s the only known volcano that spews carbonatite lava (a carbonate lava) instead of the usual molten silicate rock. #Geology

Have you heard about a volcano that erupts black lava and turns it snow-white in hours? Meet Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania – often called the world’s most unique. It’s the only known volcano that spews carbonatite lava (a carbonate lava) instead of the usual molten silicate rock. #Geology

Mohs hardness scale #Geology

Alfred Wegener guessed the drift before the data: puzzle-piece coasts, twin fossils, matching rock belts, glacial scars. #Geology

Arriving at the #geology section in a library

Geology Time Travel #geology

New Fossil found! 😂 Nokiasorus 🦕

My kind of fireworks? Volcanic lightning. Who needs sparklers when magma’s got a built-in light show? #HappyNewYear #Geology

Earth recycles oceanic crust through subduction. We recycle New Year’s resolutions. Nature’s got us beat. #HappyNewYear #Geology

Orogeny (mountain building) takes millions of years, but we expect instant changes after the clock strikes midnight. Perspective, right? Let 2025 be the start of something awesome. #HappyNewYear #Geology

As one year settles like a new sediment layer, the next awaits discovery. Wishing you an awesome 2025—Happy New Year! #Geology

The rock cycle #Geology #DwayneTheRock #TheRock

We often think about Rome’s power—military conquests, cultural achievements, political might—but do we ever consider the rocks under its sandals? The city’s legendary structures owe much of their existence to specific stones pulled from local quarries and volcanic fields. #Geology

On April 1st, 1974, a man hauled 70 tires up to the mouth of a dormant volcanoe in Alaska and set them alight. Seeing the smoke, the residents were afraid that the volcano was about to erupt and called the police. When they investigated, "APRIL FOOL" was spray-painted next to the tires. #Geology

You ever picture the ocean floor as a quiet, empty plain? Down there, scattered like odd potatoes, lie polymetallic nodules. They’re metal-rich lumps on muddy sediments, sometimes miles deep, forming over millions of years, layer by careful layer. Let's explore 👇 #Geology

Magnificent photos by photographer Daniel Kordan of Mount Bokty in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 #Geology Its a lovely sedimentary sequence that has been eroded to the point that this is the last of the caprock (flat unit on the peak) to be weathered away.

Buried deep below Earth’s crust, a hidden “ocean” may exist—water locked in ringwoodite within the mantle. Imagine vast H₂O reserves rivaling all surface oceans combined, tucked hundreds of kilometers down. Mind-blowing, right? Let's explore 👇 #Geology

Amethyst Christmas tree 😍💛🎄 #Geology

Gorgeous Multi-Color Terminated Vesuvianite Cluster from Layetto, Italy 🇮🇹 Each hue captures the natural beauty and complexity of this rare mineral differently. #Geology 📷 matrixminerals

Curious about this purple opal? Or is it blue? It seems like the color can look different depending on who's looking - what do you see? #Geology 📹 Opal Trove

Pyrope garnet with forsterite and diopside 😍😍 Incredibly colorful natural specimen ✨ From Gusdal, Almklovdalen, Vanylven, Norway 🇳🇴 #Geology 📹 Pacific Minerals

You’re holding an ancient seashell, so old its world was unrecognizable—no cities, no people. It looks static, just calcium carbonate. But inside its atoms lies a chemical code that reveals Earth’s ancient temperatures, ocean chemistry, and climate swings. This is isotope geochemistry 🧵 👇#Geology

A 2,000-year-old sapphire ring belonging to the Roman Emperor Caligula, depicting his wife Caesonia. #Geology

This is Lake Natron, a shallow, blisteringly alkaline soda lake tucked in northern Tanzania—and it might just be the strangest body of water you’ll ever encounter. 🧵👇 #Geology

Black Sand Dunes on Mars, most sand on Earth is made from the mineral quartz, which is white and bright. On Mars, most sand is composed of dark basalt, a volcanic rock #Geology

NASA released clearest view of surface of Mars! Eveyone: Send it to a geo-guesser on YouTube before they see this post #Geology

Fukang meteorite that fell in the mountains near Fukang, China. It is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old #Geology

My Spotify Wrapped #Geology #SpotifyWrapped

Mount Bromo, East Java, Indonesia 🇮🇩 eruption from a distance of 1 km from the crater #Geology

Taal Volcano, located in the Philippines, experienced a minor phreatomagmatic eruption on December 3, 2024, producing a 2,800-meter-high grayish plume from its main crater. This type of eruption, caused by magma interacting with water, resulted in ash and steam being expelled into the air. #Geology

Rough natural native gold, found in the Colorado Quartz Mine, Mariposa County, California, USA 🇺🇸 #Geology 📷 Naturalcreationsllc William Johnson

Brown Lithium in Phantom Quartz #Geology 📷 J&S Minerals

Amazing rare black opal, Australia 🇦🇺 #Geology 📹:Sedaopals Paul Sedawie

This native gold from the Colorado Quartz Mine, California, lay hidden for 80 years near the entrance until a miner dug in a new direction. #Geology 📷 Naturalcreationsllc William Johnson

Crystallized Rose Quartz from Brazil 🇧🇷 #Geology 📷 Badin Stones Brazil

Exceptional huge purple blue color change Phantom Fluorite from Loralai Mine Baluchistan Pakistan 🇵🇰 #Geology 📷 Hamza Gems Minerals

Mars on the left, earth on the right. Same exact natural process. #Geology

Amid a drought, the Dinosaur Valley State Park has discovered dinosaur footprints that have historically been covered by water and sediment. They date back more than 113 million years. #Geology

Magnetic North is now drifting faster than 30 miles per year. It had moved away from the geological north and now set to move past it in the opposite direction. #Geology

The Twin Galaxy Stones are stunning black opals from Australia, most rare gems (50 times more rare than diamond) #Geology