Spencer Zeigler ✨

absolutely desperate to cradle a 4 billion year old rock in my hands and whisper sweet nothings to it while it whispers secrets to me

how exactly does one get a piece of Acasta Gneiss? asking for a friend (me)

I cheated and said “Boulder area” haha, it’s the pedestrian bridge at the US 36&Broomfield transit stop ☺️

Earth Layers xkcd.com/2840

a dark cloudy sky cut in half by the sun. the sun is lighting up bright green grass and trees in a line down the center of the pic. high contrast.

wet sidewalk and a pedestrian bridge over a highway. Cloudy skies with blue sky peeking out over the mountains.

wet sidewalk with green grass walkways in either side. fallen orange leaves cover the grass. yellow leaves on tree and bright yellow tall, decorative stalks of what looks like an upside down broom.

An average fall day in the Boulder area. #COLORado!

Pumpkin hoop

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

Entire suite of Scientific colour maps (perceptually uniform and color-blind friendly) by Fabio Crameri, with hand-pickable colours of discrete and categorical colour palettes.

Scientific colour maps 8.0

· Perceptually uniform
· Perceptually ordered
· Colour-blind friendly
· Readable as B&W print
· Widely compatible
· Versioned & citable

fabiocrameri.ch/colourmaps

#useBatlow #Dataviz #SciArt #EduSky #OpenSource
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I’m looking for travel grants!!!! It’s for an international ⚒️ geology 🧪conference.
Pls send any ideas/repost!

I’ve already targeted my dept., the conference, & uni associated pots of $$. it’s an expensive conference with all the field trips I wanna do 🌋💎❤️

Sen. Menendez's wife hit and killed someone with her car in December 2018; a retired cop showed up and officers on the scene didn't test her for drugs or alcohol. Menendez financed a new car for her by getting money from a businessman under prosecution nytimes.com/2023/10/04/n...

Currently making two general audience/broad talks about my work and it is SO refreshing to take a step back and look holistically at my projects. I learn something new every time I undertake this exercise. 🥰

My favorite part of men/public transit is sitting warm thigh to warm thigh and shoulder to shoulder with a manspreader until they move. It’s so uncomfortable but god damn I deserve to sit normally in my SEAT. 😡

Been a decade or two since I got to whip out this masterpiece. thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule

a Spotify screenshot that says, “my daylist: hardcore screamo monday morning. since I’ve been listening to rock-ish, guitar, and emocore.”

I’m an embarrassment? Happy Monday!

selfie of a woman wearing a baseball cap standing in front of her bike, smiling and holding a thumbs up

I GOT MY BIKE BACK!!! I suddenly feel…whole again. 💕🚲

Perovskite vs. Stibnite is gonna be a tough match. :’(

PEROVSKITE FOR THE WIN!!!!!! It contains 1-100’s ppm uranium, making it a nice datable phase in kimberlites!!! diamonds!!! borg cubes!!!! 💎💎🌋🌋🧊🧊
#MinCup23

Interesting new paper out on crustal growth rates--a synthesis of detrital zircon data and whole rock compositions. Still lots of questions about cratonic keel assembly and freeboard formation, but a thought provoking contribution! www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2324/

the devil (gluten) came for me today and the devil (gluten) won 😔

average plate motion is on the order of ~0.5 inch a year!

Related question, what viscosity do you think delineates a human’s ability to differentiate “rock” and “squishier than a rock”?

I feel almost guilty for not voting for zircon, but, dioptase was my first favorite mineral ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Urban Planning Opinion Progression xkcd.com/2832

If in doubt wait. Give me a chance to convince you why #Perovskite is the best mineral in this match.
I have tenths, hundreds, thousands, infinity of arguments... as many as the combinations of elements that can be put into a #Perovskite structure.
Trust me. You won't regret it.

Oh look my favorite color!!!! I’m going to have a tough time voting here :’(

my favorite part of riding a bike is that even though my bike is super fucked up, all the repairs/parts/labor combined are still <$200. With a car? Jesus, I’d probably have to buy a new car!

Best #MinCup23 bracket EVER (as of this exact moment) #Stibnite

zircon is good for more than geochron, it’s an excellent thermochronometer & geochemistry tool! plus, there are mantle derived zircon. chew on that!

white woman making a confused face standing underneath a stroad sized sign, pointing at it.

a sidewalk ending into some dried dirt

a zoomed in photo of a crosswalk with just the corner piece of a sidewalk. there’s no other sidewalk????

a hard packed dirt patch along a large busy stroad.

omg a nice #walkable city in America 🙄 🚫🚗

Return of 'insane' NYC traffic making commuters crazy: 'There's no... "The traffic is insane this week," cab driver Sean Karim, 35, told The Post in between picking up fares in Midtown Manhattan.

You are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.

depraved