Rule 34 of plate tectonics.
Canyon Lake Gorge tour part 2: Faults, Fractures, Fossils, and FUCKING DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS!
Pictures I took today of the Canyon Lake Gorge! (Part 1)
This part includes pictures of the deep layers of rock carved out by the flash flood, the giant limestone boulders it moved, and the unearthed springs, aquifers, and waterfalls!
Gorge tour was awesome!!!!
I learned so much about the Canyon Lake Gorge, and I took a lot of great pictures that I’ll post soon! It’s incredible just how much cool stuff was unearthed by the massive flood of 2002. There’s way to much to blog about in just one post, some I’ll have to break it up into bits. Here’s a preview of what you can expect to see: Giant Boulders, Limestone walls, formerly underground streams, fossils, FUCKING DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS, waterfalls, lagoons, other cool geology stuff.
EARTHQUAKE IN SAN ANTONIO!?!??!?!
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck at 7:24 local time this morning just 47 miles SSE of San Antonio, Texas.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usb0006alu.php
If I was at home right now, I would have for sure felt this!
As far as I know, there’s no fault lines that run through the state, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they were testing nukes underground. Knowing Texas, the latter is more likely.
Source: photo.net
… and then the cone’s side burst open. Mt. Etna, Italy. Boris Behncke.
I really wanna see a volcano someday!
Piece of crust stolen from Texas found in Antarctica
When Rodinia finally did break up, this piece of crust was separated from North America and ended up in the core of what would become Antarctica. You certainly wouldn’t guess this from a map of the planet today, but that’s the gift that geology gives—unique pictures of the impossibly distant past. >continue<
Texas is everywhere!
(via geologyrocks)
Source: zeitvox
