Ah the traditional fireworks holiday of December 27. Sorry dogs, everyone knows the 10 straight days of fireworks are totally necessary. How else would one celebrate December 27?

Shale drillers have turned the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico into a pressure cooker that is literally bursting at the seams.

Gift article for y’all Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth’s Inner Core

Global warming broke time keeping? 😬

University of Alaska funds tsunami detections station through January as federal funding remains uncertain 👉 https://tinyurl.com/43s4ptss 

The US East Coast - one of the places that ice lost from Greenland ends up. Counterintuitively, places far from where land ice is lost are most impacted by the resulting sea level rise. The drumbeat remains - mitigation + adaptation.

Maybe not the most important part of this...but 10,000 people missing from #AGU25 - the registration fee is $400 for Grad Students and $800 for members. That's got to blow a $6 million hole in the AGU budget? And a $10 million revenue drop for New Orleans? Maybe more?

On FB, Yukon Geological Survey posted some spectacular photos of landslides & snow avalanches triggered by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Dec 6 in the St Elias Mountains. Here are some of my favs. @geocron.bsky.social @theronfinley.bsky.social @davepetley.bsky.social @ksvenenvig.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

Rivers on ancient Mars didn't work like terrestrial rivers do. In the absence of plate tectonics to make mountain belts, most of their drainage systems were much smaller and local, and even the large ones cover less relative area than equivalent systems on Earth. 🧪 Link: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

STUDYING CHONDRITIC #METEORITES WE TRAVEL BACK IN TIME to the first stages in Solar System formation. In fact, undifferentiated asteroids formed 4.5 Gyrs ago & never melted, being the parent bodies of #chondrites. I'm briefly introducing you to these rocks made of chondrules vm.tiktok.com/ZNRNgLwep/

This appears to be a big day for having to explain the equilibrium temperature of an object at the Earth's distance from the Sun. (It is 255 K for albedo 0.294, and there is no way around that.)

A close up of a section of the seaside cliffs at my home town in Newfoundland, Canada. For scale, the layers are mostly one to two inches thick. #geology #rock

I'll be honest, as an Indiana alum, I have no idea what I just watched. My reaction is simply confusion. Anyway...time to star making a float out of...Roses... #IUFB

A small slab of the ancient ocean floor, as found in Ohio. There were so many of these at this site! #fossilhunting

Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯 USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

Texas had it's warmest Fall on record. This data goes back to 1940, but 2025 also beats 1931 quite easily. I used metric units along the y-axis to confuse Texans.

Progressive Marin County is already in the future

The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.

BGS scientists have gained access to ‘once in a lifetime’ core from Great Glen Fault. The core provides a cross-section through the UK’s largest fault zone, offering a rare insight into the formation of the Scottish Highlands. More: www.bgs.ac.uk/news/scienti...

This is the point: “Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property,” said Art Carter [CRLS CEO] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

Cobble-sized rocks fill hard sandstone conglomerate that makes up the Carmelo Formation near Monterey, CA. This was once a deep underwater canyon that collected river rocks that came down from the ancestral Sierra Nevadas. flic.kr/p/2rHYsFD flic.kr/p/2rHXTZ9 flic.kr/p/2rHXTYC flic.kr/p/2rHYsEM

Thanksgiving... Where we give thanks to the Chicxulub meteorite for freeing us of husbands of millennia of oppression by killing and roasting a dinosaur

The #HayliGubbi eruption came after a period of unrest that started in June-July 2025 with a large dike intrusion in the southern sector of the Erta Ale rift. Our InSAR study will be out soon but you can have a summary at the link below. @earth-science.bsky.social #geoscience

Cool inset map from this "Geologic Map of the San Francisco Bay Region," by Graymer, et al. (2006). ngmdb.usgs.gov/ngm-bin/pdp/... It shows the blocks of crust sliced & diced by Bay Area faults, and how much & in what direction they have moved in the past 34 million years. ⚒️

Some stunning footage of ongoing pyroclastic flow activity at Semeru #volcano (Java, Indonesia). Screen capture shows a lightning strike at ~16:07 UTC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txgr...

"The idea was that it would last five to seven years, but as you can see, about half of it is gone." on.nbcboston.com/27D5O3r

Gift article. Terrifying, devastating reporting on the Texas flood tragedy. “In our minds, the cabins were built on high ground”…”even after a 2011 FEMA map placed most of the cabins within a 100-year flood zone”—a map the camp’s owners successfully contested. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New contender for the worst ever disaster TV show! I'm only on S1E1, but it's about Mauna Kea, located in Oahu, erupting. They figured it out from ground observations in the tropical forest ~80 miles north. The complex topography looks similar to the Alps, complicating where to drop the bombs. 🌋

The clock is ticking on the shrinking Colorado River as Western states miss a key deadline "There’s no agreement yet, but time marches on, and conditions on the river continue to be problematic — more problematic over time as those reservoirs decline.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned Tehran may face evacuation. Water reserves have fallen to just 5% after months without rain.

If this baseball game gets to 2:00 am Toronto time, we will see it shift back to 1:00 am in the middle of the game.

I've had to update the plot of the strongest tropical cyclones by ocean basin all too often in recent years, since climate change increases the number of high-end storms. Melissa has joined the club, tied with Dorian (2019) as strongest Atlantic hurricane recorded outside the Gulf of Mexico.

Due entirely to this baseball game I just took the dog out and spotted Orion for the first time this fall.

Great article on Earthquake Insurance costs rising very quickly in Missouri due to better understanding of New Madrid risks and pricing out lower-risk homes so more burden falls on higher risk homes. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

Let's unravel the mystery of Saturn's polar hexagon. A jet stream speeds around the pole at 320 km/h (200 mph). That’s common among planets, but what's not is that it oscillates up and down *very* stably. Each low point of this sine wave becomes a corner of a hexagon, when projected onto a sphere:

Olivine is my second fav mineral after pyropic garnet and am super loving this forsteritic olivine ring. Peridotite xenolith in phonotephrite is from the classic location of the San Carlos volcanic field. #olivine #xenolith #peridotite

“The International Energy Agency now projects that global demand for coal, oil, and gas will all peak before 2030, marking the beginning of structural decline rather than resurgence. The illusion of a fossil revival has unraveled under market realities.” www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...

From Fall 2023, my first view of Bryce Canyon's surreal hoodoos combined with a forest of Bristlecone Pines, Ponderosa Pines, and Douglas Firs at Rainbow Point. #Scape #ForestFriday #Landscape #Nature #NationalParks #Utah

We just drove by the site of this GigaPan that I shot in 2013, and the outcrop has been bulldozed. This image is now the best record of the site. viewer.gigamacro.com/view/JFKylee... ⚒️

El Capitan in the Guadalupe Mountains in Texas, close to the New Mexico boundary: a Permian reef complex. ⚒️

Dry Falls from Above: Interpreting Washington's Iconic Floodscape dancoecarto.com & @joelgombiner.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/wasta... #NACIS2025

Plastic is everywhere. On today’s dive, the E/V Nautilus/ ROV Hercules encountered a crushed plastic bottle on the abyssal plain- in the remote Pacific (Cook Islands @ 5,198 meters). ♻️ I challenge everyone to swap at least one single-use plastic item. Small steps for more eco habits. 🌊🧪🌎

Well I…what? #iufb

Strategic Minerals and the False Promise of Seabed Mining cimsec.org/strategic-mi...

A great new analogy just occurred to me. ⚒️

Canyon view from the South Rim trail of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. See the ALT notes. 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #Yellowstone #geothermal

Last week I was co-leading a field trip in Utah, to check out some fluvial and eolian rocks. It was exhausting but fun and forced me to think more carefully than before about complex bedforms. This is a 3D model of one of the many stunning exposures of the Navajo Sandstone near Escalante 🧪⚒️

We already know what happened to Amelia Earhart!

Tsé Bit A'í. #photography