Latest posts tagged with #GEOLOGY on Bluesky
Natural rock arch framing a desert mountain landscape at sunset
By: NIR HIMI
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🌎 Spitzkoppe, Namibia
📸 SONY, ILCE-7SM3
16.0mm ƒ/2.8
1/200s
ISO 125
#wallpapers #backgrounds #safari #mountainRange #desertLandscape #geology #travelDestination
A landscape of sandstone fins in dull orange in the shade, and yellows where the sun strikes them at their tips. Below their tips there is snow clinging to their bases lower down. In the foreground there is a prominent sandstone saddle that rises at it's far end in an abrupt peak with sun still on it. To it's right are several clumpy green desert trees in the shade of the stones. Above the landscape is a blue sky with wispy clouds lower toward the horizon, which is blocked by the sandstone spires. This photo is very near sunset. The sun is out of frame to the far right, and only the tips of the tallest sandstone features have direct sun on them. This was taken in the Devil's Garden area of Arches national Park, Utah, on a 'primitive trail' that visits many grand vistas and geological features, including arches.
"Sugar Coated"
For #Stunday I'm back at the archives for the 2023 Winter trip to the #Moab area of #Utah. I had a very memorable hike in Devil's Garden! The primitive trail option was awesome!
#ArchesNationalPark #📷 #Hiking #EastCoastKin #Snow #Sandstone #Geology #Travel #NationalParks #Scape
Just left of center is a colorless dodecahedron of paulingite-K surrounded by colorless clinoptilolite-Ca. The yellow cluster to the right is phillipsite-K coated with an amorphous iron silicate. These are found in boulders dredged from the Columbia River during construction of the Rock Island Dam. This is the type locality for paulingite-K. A search to find it the source of the boulders was not successful.
Paulingite-K (K,Ca,Na,Ba,☐)₁₀(Si,Al)₄₂O₈₄·34H₂O
Phillipsite-K K₆(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O
Clinoptilolite-Ca (K,Ca,Na,Ba,☐)₁₀(Si,Al)₄₂O₈₄·34H₂O
Rock Island Dam, Douglas Co., Washington, USA
FOV = 3.53 mm
#806
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#minerals #mineralogy #geology #earthscience
Group of colorless phillipsite-K crystals on a black clay with greenish yellow clay mineral. These are found on boulders dredged from the Columbia River during construction of the Rock Island Dam.
Phillipsite-K K₆(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O
Rock Island Dam, Douglas Co., Washington, USA
FOV = 1.58 mm
#803
NFS
#minerals #mineralogy #geology #earthscience
Blocky colorless clinoptilolite-Ca crystals that have grown on erionite-K crystals. The yellow spots are an amorphous iron silicate. These are found in boulders dredged from the Columbia River during the construction of the Rock Island Dam.
Clinoptilolite Ca₃(Si₃₀Al₆)O₇₂·20H₂O
Rock Island Dam, Douglas Co., Washington, USA
FOV = 1.07 mm
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#minerals #mineralogy #geology #earthscience
A little geology today. Found another couple of chunks of quartz mixed in with the native sandstone down in little creek. These are not at all rounded and so have not traveled far. #geology #rocks #quartz #streamsandcreeks #water #treesforclimate
#nature #naturephotography
#landscapes #creeklife
New #Geology research by Myrow, Hu, and Lamb shows Late Paleozoic tropics were warm and stormy. Wave modeling of 300-Ma deposits reveals giant waves from Category-1 hurricanes, indicating seas above 26.5°C.
Read more: geosociety.co/Paleohydraulics
Image: Figure 3 from the paper.
Wrote a little about this study in stone, with a few more frames from the archives included on the blog. A moment of contemplative calm for your Sunday reading pleasure.
Also has me thinking it may be time to pull out the film camera again.
#photography #geology #film #foto #naturephotography
Today I finished prepping this gorgeous Caenisites turneri!
Caenisites is a fairly rare ammonite from the blue lias. On my last trip I only found this one, on my first day no less!
Check the thread for a prepping timeline.
#geology #rocks #fossil #paleontology #ammonite
Photo taken March 14, 2026, near Beegum Gorge #ShastaCounty, #NorthernCalifornia of an interesting looking rock I saw when hiking. I checked it using Google Lens, and it said it was a fossilized sponge. I don’t think geologists have to worry about being replaced for now. #photography #geology #rocks
A tranquil Lakeland view at Derwent Water, Keswick, Cumbria, England on an overcast winters day across a grey lake to a mountain landscape. In the foreground a wooden jetty leads the eye down the perfectly still lake to the mountains in the distance. The wooden jetty and it's posts and the surrounding scenery are reflected in the calm, still waters of the grey lake. The scenery in the background includes: Derwent Island in the centre, the most prominent island on the lake. It is the only inhabited island on the lake and is owned by the National Trust. It is covered in trees with a boathouse and wooden jetty just visible. The Jaws of Borrowdale in the distance - this is where Borrowdale valley carved by ice, and eroded through thousands of years, is constricted between the steep slopes of Kings How and Castle Crag. The North Western Fells including Catbells and Causey Pike which has a dusting of snow on its summit.
#stunday
Tranquility on an overcast winters day at Derwent Water, Keswick, Cumbria (Feb 2026).
Looking down the lake to the Jaws of Borrowdale carved by ice and eroded through thousands of years.
#lakedistrict #keswick #cumbria #nature #winter #geology #photography #eastcoastkin
#Stunday #stunning #dramatic titled "Razored Sky" #geology #sandstone #CapitolReefNP #ArtYear #ClassicMono #bnw #monochrome #grayscale #blackandwhite #WestCoastKin #photography #redrocks #landscapephotography #WestCoastPhotographers #desertphotography #polarizer #lensfilter #sharp #ColoradoPlateau
#Horizontal #BlueskyArtShow #LoneRock #SkullValley #storm #winter #weather #wideangle #lens #landscapephotography #landscape #ArtYear #ECK #EastCoastKin #GreatBasin #desertphotography #desert #geology #Stunday #stunning #dramatic #PhotographersOfBluesky #WestCoastKin #photography #BlueskyPhotography
Arizona's Meteor Crater, formed 50,000 years ago, continues to reveal secrets about impact events. Ongoing research provides insights into cosmic collisions. #geology #geology #News
A uniquely eroded stone with a ridged texture along its sides stands in focus among a pile of other rocks. In the background a river flows past in soft-focus. The highlights reflecting off of the water run in the same direction and echo the texture of the erosion marks on the stone. The colours of the rocks are a range of dusty blue-greys and light purple, red tones. The effect of the overall image is a soft, gentle portrait of a stone and the water that eroded it.
Shaped by time, eroded stone
Colour transparency film flavour unknown
Trinity River, California, circa 2006-2007
Documenting the idea of time made visible has been an ongoing project, and I love the tonality & grain of these geologic details caught on film.
#photography #fotografia #film #geology
Limusoceras japonicum gen. et comb. nov. (Yabe, 1904) from the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group, Vancouver Island. A–C, RBCM.EH2014.049.0025, Trent River Formation, Hamm Road/Highway 19 roadcut, extrapolated earliest two helical volutions with grey silhouettes illustrating schematized morphology of initial gyroconic stage, lateral and umbilical views, and left septal hemisuture at Wh = 7 mm. D–G, CDM 162, Trent River Formation, Trent River, two and one-half helical volutions with retroversal section, apertural, right lateral, umbilical and left lateral views. Scale bar = 1 cm.
Artist’s rendition of hypothetical life orientations of species of Limusoceras gen. nov. A, Limusoceras traski gen. et sp. nov. B, Limusoceras japonicum gen. et comb. nov. (Yabe, 1904). C, Limusoceras neojaponicum gen. et sp. nov. Artistic renditions by Connie Resch.
Great to see finally published by Misha Whittingham @deathandtaxa.bsky.social the magnum opus on the heteromorph ammonites of the Vancouver Island! With new genera and species.
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
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A rock with lots of flat reflective metallic-looking crystal-like surfaces.
Hey stone Mastodon, can someone help me identify this one? #mastorocks #stones #geology
Sundance
Rio San Juan, Utah. Canon T90📷 Kodachrome 25🎞️
#Horizontal #BlueSkyArtShow #filmphotography🎞️ #ClassicMono #Scape #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin #landscape #geology #utah
Rio San Juan Gorge, Utah
Canon T90📷 Kodachrome 25🎞️
#Horizontal #BlueSkyArtShow #filmphotography🎞️ #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin #landscape #Scape #winter #geology #river #utah #protectwildutah
Blue sky and blue water with a field of yellow fading flowers in the foreground and a large rock wedge emerging from the sea in the background
“FROM MY POV” Rocher Percé (Percé Rock) one of the most iconic and beautiful places on the #Gaspé Peninsula in #Quebec. This #horizontal monolith is one of the world’s largest natural arches over water. Awe inspiring to behold. 🇨🇦
#BlueSkyArtShow
#photography
#art
#geology
#nature
#coast
#canada
A striking black and white photograph showcases a uniquely shaped rock formation, surrounded by a cloudy sky, highlighting the intricate textures and patterns created by natural erosion.
Utah has some mighty strange rocks.
#photography #grayscale #blackandwhite #rocks #geology
Striations of yellow, orange, blue, and brown run through the petrified wood.
Glorious colors in the petrified wood at the Petrified National Forest. #RocksRock #Geology #blueskyartshow #horizontal
Mantle plume–driven uplift accelerated erosion and carbonate weathering, temporarily creating a powerful carbon sink that may have outpaced volcanic degassing from the CO₂-poor Emeishan basalts.
A new perspective on deep Earth–climate interactions!🤔
#PKUResearch #Geology #Paleoclimate #CarbonCycle
Zircon U isotope compositions reveal a shift in magma oxygen fugacity, constrain the onset of the plate tectonic regime, and open a new window into understanding continental crust evolution.
doi.org/10.59717/j.x...
#zircon #geology #platetectonics
Irregularly shaped white rock shaped by wind and water, sitting on reddish cracked ground
#haikufeels #rely #haiku #poem #poetry #blueskypoet #blueskypoetry #writingcommunity #rock #geology
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Could the Tyrannosaurus rex have evolved into giants far earlier than previously believed? A 74-million-year-old shin bone found in New Mexico may have belonged to a relative of the ferocious predators. “It's a dead ringer for T. rex,” Dr. Nicholas Longrich of the University of Bath said. Read […]
