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Geology Word of the Day! Plinian Eruption - An explosive eruption in which a steady, turbulent stream of fragmented magma and magmatic gas is released at a high velocity from a vent. Large volumes of tephra and tall eruptive columns are characteristic. 1/2 ⚒️

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Geology Word of the Day! Cataclastic - A) Pertaining to the structure produced in a rock by the action of severe mechanical stress during dynamic metamorphism; characteristic features include bending, breaking, and granulation of the minerals. Also said of the rocks exhibiting such structures. 1/2

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Quote with a picture you took at a National Park…

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In this episode of the Annals of the Anthropocene, we remember back to those heady days of AI…when much of the world’s inhabitants decided it was worth handing over all the content ever created to machines run by corporations…because it is so hard to write a letter. #AOTA #AnthropoScenes #AI 🖋️🏭🔥⌛️

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Geology Word(s) of the Day! Magmatic Evolution - The continuing change in composition of a magma as a result of magmatic differentiation, assimilation, or mixing of magmas. 1/2 ⚒️🌎🪨🌋📚❄️⛏️🌊🏔️🦕🔥⏳ #GWOTD

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The last time Oakley’s were cool was when Greg Lemond wore them in a Tour de France.

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Geology Word of the Day! Maar - A low relief, broad volcanic crater formed by multiple shallow explosive eruptions. It’s surrounded by a crater ring, and may be filled by water. Type occurrence is in the Eifel area of Germany. From the 2nd Edition of AGI’s Glossary of Geology ⚒️🌎🪨🌋📚❄️🌊🏔️🦕🔥⏳ #GWOTD

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Geology Word of the Day! Mylonite - Chertlike rock without cleavage, but with a streaky or banded structure, produced by the extreme granulation and shearing of rocks that have been pulverized and rolled during overthrusting or intense dynamic metamorphism. 1/2 ⚒️🌎🪨🌋📚❄️⛏️🌊🏔️🦕🔥⏳ #GWOTD

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Geology Word of the Day! Nu’ee Ardente - A swiftly flowing, turbulent gaseous cloud, sometimes incandescent, erupted from a volcano and containing ash and other pyroclastics in its lower part; 1/2 ⚒️🌎🪨🌋📚❄️⛏️🌊🏔️🦕🔥⏳ #GWOTD

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It would be a wee bit o’ catastrophism to miss today’s #GWOTD! While you’re here…stop swinging your isogyres and suggest a geology word for tomorrow and get the official definition from the AGI’s Glossary of Geology!

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Geology Word of the Day! Catastrophism - (a) The doctrine that sudden violent, short-lived, more or less worldwide events events outside our present experience or knowledge of nature have greatly modified the Earth’s crust; ⚒️🌎🪨🌋📚❄️⛏️🌊🏔️🦕🔥⏳ #GWOTD

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Update from Cores to Code: Last week, students visited coastal sites to study past land-level changes. They learned to take and describe sediment cores and conduct elevation surveys — gaining hands-on experience in paleoseismology. Stay tuned as they bring their data back to the lab!

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Geology Word of the Day! Catastrophism - (a) The doctrine that sudden violent, short-lived, more or less worldwide events events outside our present experience or knowledge of nature have greatly modified the Earth’s crust; ⚒️🌎🪨🌋📚❄️⛏️🌊🏔️🦕🔥⏳ #GWOTD

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Tell him, Madam Secretary 👏🏼

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Geology Word of the Day! Cotectic - Said of conditions of temperature, pressure, and composition under which two or more solid phases crystallize simultaneously and without resorption from a single liquid over a finite range of falling temperature; ⚒️🌎🪨🌋📚❄️🌊🏔️🦕🔥⏳ #GWOTD

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