Pacific Museum of Earth

Happy #BCDay 🇨🇦 Here is our most impressive BC specimen, the Lytton Jelly Roll - from Lytton, BC!

It's the largest turbidite (a sedimentary structure formed by an underwater avalanche) in the world! 🌊

Why did the seagull visit the Pacific Museum of Earth?

PIER pressure.

What did the Ocean say to the shore?

Nothing. It just WAVED.

📍 Wreck Beach, University of British Columbia

Of QUARTZ you are beautiful!

Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Why did the paleontologist go to the doctor?

He was feeling dino-sore.

Happy #FriendshipDay 💞💛🦕

#NationalRainDay 🌧️ My favourite rain fun fact:

Deep within Neptune and Uranus, it rains diamonds - or so astronomers and physicists have suspected for nearly 40 years!

Come on Earth, step it uppp 👆

(Just kidding. You are perfect. Thanks.)

What did one volcano say to the other?

I LAVA you!

What animal is a climate change denier?

Egyptian Crocodiles - they live in Da Nile.

How did the shark plead in the murder case?

Not GILL-ty.

What do you call a pirate who digs for fossils?

An ARRR-cheologist.

Do you hate geology puns?

My SEDIMENTS exactly.

I, myself, am a big fan of me, myself. I am the most handsome, heroic, honourable, humorous, humble, and other h-adjectives boy around. 

- George the lambeosaurus 🦕

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Stilbite! It got its name from a Greek term meaning “to glitter” based on the pearly luster of the mineral.

Isn’t it amazing how rocks on Mars are similar to those on Earth? 

The presence of conglomerate and sandstones on Mars is evidence of moving water.

The red color is thought to be iron staining, which is nearly ubiquitous on Mars and gives it the name "Red Planet."

Sand, a geological canvas, reflects Earth's history! 

Its variety of colours - from golden beaches, red deserts, and black sand stem from the minerals within.

Wind, water, and time grind rocks into grains, each colour a story of local geology.

The Megalodon was the largest fish that ever lived!
 
The largest individuals measured up to 58 feet or even larger. That's about three times as big as the largest sharks in the ocean today.

The largest megalodon tooth ever discovered was about the length of a TV remote.

Over millions of years, erosion exposed this pluton, and the glaciers of the Ice Age further sculpted its current form.

The Stawamus Chief, often called "The Chief," is a massive granite monolith and is not actually a volcano.

It was formed by the cooling and solidification of magma deep underground, creating a granodiorite pluton.

Orogenic gold links to continent assembly:

Mountain building exposes weaknesses in Earth's crust, forming faults.

Metal-rich fluids travel these pathways and when encountering certain changes in temperature or pH, these metals can precipitate out giving rise to mineral deposits!

More than 80% of the ocean floor is made up of abyssal plains 🌊

Happy #InternationalRockDay 🪨💎 If you were an otter, which rock would you keep in your pocket?

A fossilized upper cranium of a Homo erectus from Sangiran, Indonesia 🇮🇩

With magma that’s sticky, gas remains trapped inside as the magma rises up through the volcano.

The gas bubbles eventually connect and rip apart the magma into molten ash and rocks, all of which explode out of the volcano faster than the speed of sound!

#NationalKittenDay Learn the minerals... with kittens! 😻

This is a prehistoric relative of the modern sea urchin - a group that has been around for about 485.3 million years!

Since then its body has been replaced by minerals meaning this is a body fossil.

🦖 If you like dinosaurs, you will like me. Cause, you know, I am a dinosaur and all that. 

Come visit me and maybe I won't be as bored. Thanks. 

- George the lambeosaurus 🦕

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Streak is the color of a mineral when it is crushed into powder. To determine this, we drag the material across a porcelain square. 

The color you find on the square may be strikingly different from that of the mineral, but it’ll remain consistent between different specimens!

Megatherium, the giant ground sloth, roamed South America during the Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11,000 years ago).

Among the largest land mammals, it reached up to 20 feet, weighing around 4 tons 🦥

Where does wind come from?

Wind originates from the uneven heating of the Earth's surface by the sun.

This uneven heating creates differences in air pressure, causing air to move from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure, resulting in wind 🌬️🌍