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Earth Lover. Geology ⛏️, cartography🗺️, earth history, coastal processes 🌊 , sedimentation, volcanism🌋 , climate 🌎, soils…Oh, and bonsai🪴 and bad poetry and bad poetry about rocks 🪨
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Yeah you have!
You should have been at the CRESCENT Workshop today…or maybe you were?
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From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology
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Not a new story…just a worsening one. The algal blooms date back to at least the 1970s…maybe earlier…after the lake was “freed” from mosquitoes and killed the ecosystem.
Fondly remember my hirsute grandfather emerging from the water in the late 1970s looking like a swamp creature.
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Nine commas and a dash.
Make America Punctuate Again
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I feel a disturbance in The Farce…
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It’s a trap!!
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From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology
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#GWOTD
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Bonus Word…
Prospect Hole - A general term for any shaft, pit, adit, drift, tunnel or drill hole made for the purpose of prospecting mineral-bearing ground.
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2/2 (C) An area to be searched by some investigative technique; (D) A geological or geophysical anomaly, especially one recommended for additional exploration.
A prospect is distinct from a mine in that it is non-producing.
From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology
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The fact that work avoidance cost only barely has to be less than actual work required cost to make it worthwhile to those who employ it…priceless!
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Etymology: Pliny the Younger, AD 79.
From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology
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B) Pertaining to clastic rocks, the fragments of which have been produced by the fracture of pre-existing rocks by Earth stress, eg crush breccia. 2/2
From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology
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In the immortal words of Admiral Ackbar…”It’s a wrap!”
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This is my grail album find…had it as a kid…been searching for 5 years…but refuse to pay Discogs prices!
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Magmatic Differentiation - Differentiation.
Differentiation - The process of developing more than one rock type, in situ, from a common magma.
From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology
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This makes me want a different timeline.
Never go full Late Stage Anthropocene.
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Even the oil industry relies on their data.
The stupidity hurts…but the fact that a year or three from now, they still won’t be able connect the dots between all they intentionally fucked up and how fucked up things became, and how hard it will be to recover…is infuriating.
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Not a mathematicker, but I believe that would be 0 for 300.
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Great interview. Follow @whysharksmatter.bsky.social for more insights.
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Waiting for the timeline to hit the Cretaceous.
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Wow…our PPE consisted of a dust pan!
Glad to see such precautions in place, but also (cough) makes me wonder…
At least we had a hood for the heavy mineral separation.
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I’ve already moved on.
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I like that a lot better.
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Maybe everyone doesn’t need a neighborhood concert cellist…but I sure as hell do.
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Yeah…ours in the Klamaths (if memory serves) were mostly metasedimentary or metavolcanic and only weakly mylonitic. So no expert here too!
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This was one of my first environmental awareness moments…the documentation of the losses that I first heard about in the early 1970s as a kid…the efforts to capture and breed to restore populations.
It’s so nice to have some wins along the way.
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Mylonite may also [more succinctly, I might add] be described as a microbreccia with flow texture. 2/2
From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology
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No idea why that URL doesn't have a link card. But you want to go there for the hover text anyway, as usual.
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This is who runs this account.
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All available as convertibles…not a coincidence, I suppose.
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For more on Catastrophism and why though proven wrong fundamentally, it continues to see some application today…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastr...
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…a density current of pyroclastic flow. Etymology: French, “glowing cloud”.
From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology
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Only if you were never actually in “real life”.