#geological study

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Unveiling the West Swale: A Geological Odyssey Through Time

[elves-as-things-my-friends-said]

Tuor: I'm over here having deep thoughts and you're just thinking about rocks.

Maeglin: you're thinking about cleavage.

Tuor: no, I was thinking of cleavage jokes, there's a difference.

[skeeballcatt22]

Hermitcraft Fic Idea #17

When Grian Dreamslayer woke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed right there in his bed into some sort of monstrous bird.

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka but it's Grian. I love it, like Pearl is the cleaning lady, because of course she is, and the sister is Gem because they are siblings basically, and then... um...

For an idea I've had for half a year now, it's not well thought out haha

[singeart]

Trying her best 🙏🙏

[milkyberryjsk]

i graduated ^__^

[sndwave]

going deep into the prehistoric glacier hole again

[varpusvaras]

hhhhhh I need to fill out applications for internships...I need an adult.

[gray-mark]

I studied the end of Pangea’s breakup for four years and as a geologist I have great news! We’ve had multiple supercontinents during Earth’s history and one day there will be a supercontinent again. It may take a few hundred million years, but it will happen!

Supercontinents break apart because of mantle convection, but they also form because of the same thing. Over time, continents get pushed together when you have essentially one side of the planet producing a LOT of crust, which pushes the existing plates together and squishes them into one blob. So keep an eye out for Pangea 2.0 (if we’re not all extinct by then 🫡)

kid at my work has been obsessed with pangea lately. he keeps telling me we have to "save it". like go back in time and push it back together

[townpostin]

World's Oldest Beach Discovered in Jharkhand's Singhbhum

Research dates ancient shoreline to 3.2 billion years ago, reshaping continental formation theories Groundbreaking study reveals Singhbhum district as the site of Earth’s earliest known beach, predating previous estimates of continental emergence by 700 million years. JAMSHEDPUR – A recent study published by the National Academy of Sciences of America has identified Singhbhum district in…

[phoenix-joy]

Author: Unknown Timestamp: 3 May 2024

Extract:

A rare archaeological object - thought to be the only one of its type in the former Roman Empire - has been discovered in Carlisle.

Roman Imperial Purple - Tyrian Purple - paint pigment was found as part of the city’s Uncovering Roman Carlisle project.

A lump of a soft mysterious purple substance was discovered at a Roman Bathhouse (in the drains), within the grounds of Carlisle Cricket Club, during the 2023 excavation by archaeologists and volunteers.

The part of the drains it was discovered in related to a monumental building with a bathhouse built in the 3rd Century - during the time of the Emperor Septimius Severus.

The purple was tested with the support of British Geological Society and further analysis is ongoing with the Newcastle University.

Experts from Newcastle University showed it was organic and contained levels of Bromine and beeswax - this almost certainly indicates it is Tyrian Purple, the colour associated with the Imperial Court in the Roman Empire.

[...]

Frank Giecco, Technical Director at Wardell Armstrong, said:

“For millennia, Tyrian Purple was the world’s most expensive and sought after colour. It’s presence in Carlisle combined with other evidence from the excavation all strengthens the hypothesis that the building was in some way associated with the Imperial Court of the Emperor Septimius Severus which was located in York and possibly relates to a Imperial visit to Carlisle.

[...]

“It’s the only example we know of in Northern Europe - possibly the only example of a solid sample of the pigment in the fort of unused paint pigment anywhere in the Roman Empire. Examples have been found of it in wall paintings (like in Pompeii) and also some high status painted coffins from the Roman province of Egypt.”

Tyrian Purple is made from thousands of crushed seashells from the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa, or Morocco. It was phenomenally difficult to make and expensive and was worth more than gold pound for pound (three times as much in some sources).

It was most famously produced around the city of Tyre in the Eastern Mediterranean which gives it its name. Tyre is in modern day Lebanon. It was also produced in North Africa, and off the coast of Morocco too.

[...]

Tyrian Purple clad kings and emperors from the Bronze Age, to the Persians, to Alexander the Great, to Cleopatra VII, to the Romans and then Charlemagne and the Byzantines. Sometimes the dye was used on clothes, but it was also used to paint walls in grand public buildings, and the homes and properties of the elite (including walls of bathhouses).

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[teaboot]

I know I'm asexual and I'm within a reasonable degree of certainty that I'm aromantic but I still feel like I have a pretty firm grasp on what is "hot" and what is "sexy" without those particular areas of attraction. Allow me to elaborate

An aesthetically or conceptually inspiring trait is "hot"

An aesthetically or conceptually inspiring ability is "sexy"

"Hot" is the appreciation for the theatre

"Sexy" is the appreciation for the zeitgeist

Something that is "sexy" is always "hot", but something that is "hot" is not always "sexy"

Things that are "hot", imo:

Antique wootz steel blades

A black 2020 Chevrolet Camaro

Eyeliner

Tongue piercings

Charlize Theron's voice

Things that are "sexy", possibly also "hot":

Martial arts

Pole dancing

Those video compilations of manual labour workers doing things nobody even thinks about super quick and efficiently

People who are really smart who study really specific stuff like geological chalk formations and shit

Things that are definitely "hot" and "sexy":

Being in a hardware store

A perfectly executed backflip

Good art that hits different

The sensation of drinking very cold water when you're really gross and hot and tired and it's like oooohhhhohohoho FUCK yeah

And finally, things that I'm reasonably sure are probably either "hot" or "sexy" that I still don't fully understand but am willing to take the L on:

Getting a massage (?)

Weiners

Football players, probably

Perfume commercials

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[gadawg-404]

The Richat Structure, also known as "The Eye of the Sahara".

Located in Mauritania, the structure is about 50 km in diameter. It was initially thought to be the result of an impact event because large meteors typically produce circular features on Earth's surface. But geologic studies have revealed that it is actually an uplifted geologic dome, also known as a domed anticline.

The original posted image was AI. I removed it. I was misinformed. The correct image is below. Thanks for the correction.

[hope-for-the-planet]

From the article:

When rain pounds earth that contains the right mix of minerals, carbon dioxide in the air dissolves into the water and reacts to form new compounds that imprison carbon dioxide. With enough time, this natural process of literally petrifying the air will cleanse the atmosphere of the carbon dioxide pollution humanity has emitted from burning fossil fuels and other activities. The problem, though, is this natural cycle takes millennia. Kanan’s idea is to take a process that normally operates on geologic time — and speed it up. To do so, his team mixed together limestone with a crushed silicate mineral that contains magnesium — such as olivine, an olive-tinted mineral that can be found around the world. When heated to furiously high temperatures in a kiln, calcium in the limestone and magnesium in the silicate jiggle and switch sides, like participants in a square dance. The result of the chemical reaction is two compounds — magnesium oxide and calcium silicate — that both readily react with air and water to trap carbon dioxide in a matter of weeks. After accounting for emissions from heating the kilns and capturing carbon dioxide from burning limestone, each ton of material can remove one ton of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the researchers estimate. “We didn’t expect that it would work as well as it does,” said Yuxuan Chen, lead author of the study who worked in Kanan’s lab while getting his PhD, said in a statement.

[magnetothemagnificent]

Literally every conversation with a colleague/peer in the academic field I'm in (anthropology, with a focus on human prehistory and human evolution) upon them learning I'm an observant religious Jew goes like this:

Person: "Sorry if this is a personal question, but how do you.... y'know......deal with it?"

Me: "Deal with what?"

Person: "Y'know...... y'know......your religion......"

Me: "Meaning?"

Person: "Well, um, how old do you believe the earth is?"

Me: "I follow the geological consensus, which is approximately 4.5 Billion years"

Person: "But......but.....your Bible says that it's 6,000 years old....."

Me: "Technically 5,783 years, so you're wrong there, haha"

Person: "Okay but how do you....how do you reconcile that with science?"

Me: "I don't need to reconcile it. They're not in opposition."

Person: "??"

Me: "The plain text in the Tanakh states that it has been 5,783 years since the creation of Adam, and consequently the world. Judaism has never been about taking the text in the Tanakh plainly, there's always deeper meanings. Who's to say that the 5,783 years aren't just the years since a couple named Adam and Eve met and copulated, triggering the begining of the lineage of Abraham, Moses, and the entire Jewish lineage, and that the six days of creation aren't six phases which are actually pretty in-line with our understanding of evolution?"

Person: "But.....some people believe that it's literally been 5,783 years since the earth was literally created!"

Me: "Okay..... that's what they believe. I don't see how it should bother me, especially considering we're in the field of anthropology where we try to study other patterns of belief, not cast judgement upon them."

Person: "But other Jews believe that!!!"

Me: "Again.....why should that affect my religious and academic senses of self? Judaism has never been a monolith of belief, anyway."

Person: "But-"

[kissingupyourinnerthighs]

Holy shit... now I get to be excited!!

I've done the journey up to the top of Mount Teide, Tenerife, and just WOOOOW 😍

As you travel up the volcano you travel through different areas, each one more spectacular than the last. They teach you that the trees here have evolved and are now immune to lava (I did not challenge this). There are places that look like you are on the surface of Mars. It is such a beatiful place. I was there in 2012 and I said I was going to make volcanoes my thing. Then I went to New Zealand and White Island erupted just a few weeks before I got there and I heard some of the horror stories. I haven't been on another volcano since. Well, not an active/dormant one...

Above the Clouds - Tenerife, Spain 2025

[montereybayaquarium]

How much would you have to eat to match a sea otter's diet? 🦦 🤔

There’s a new study we co-authored  about the diet and foraging habits of southern sea otters in California. It focuses on the Año Nuevo population located north of Santa Cruz. 

University of San Francisco & US Geological Survey student researchers led this fieldwork. They examined the otters’ foraging habits and caloric consumption. 

Sea below to discover how much energy sea otters spend in a day to survive! 

Hungry for more? Shellebrate Sea Otter Awareness Week with us all week long!