Cody Mason

A view of a roadside outcrop displaying interbedded greenish mudstones and fossiliferous grainstones, packstones, and wackestones.

roadside outcrops of carboniferous limestone and greenish mudstone, laid back in three benches. Some faulting present, also present, some interesting depositional geometries.

Several falls ago, we field-tripped out to Kentucky with students to see these beautiful outcrops of Carboniferous Fort Payne. Here are two perspectives taken with a drone.

Too bad these are ~ 6 hr drive from campus... ⚒️

Yep, lots of rounded clasts! I’ve never seen the insides of a drumlin, neat photos.

Oh cool, that’s surprising, though I’m not around much till these days. Maybe some outwash processes or multi cycle clasts, or just ice transport?

Wandering the woods in Manchester VT, and pondering these well-rounded clasts. I’m way above the modern floodplain, and these clasts must be fluvial gravels, not glacial till(?). I wonder how the pre-glacial landscape would have looked? Fun times in fall foliage.
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Tiktaalik fossil and derpy reconstruction

Enormous gypsum crystals from Mexico

Bad taxidermied cat

Metamorphic rock from the Jack Hills, Australia, source of Earths oldest minerals, zircons ~4.4 billion years old.

Some goodies from a trip to the HMNH.

2015-2024

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Mmmm. Bisque.

Update on my electrification project:
New heat pump installed! So looking forward to burning less natural gas this winter.

Came across another picture of my slightly younger self doing fieldwork, somewhere Wild and Scenic, New Mexico. Ca. 2012
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Me standing in the foreground of a cliff exposing Plio-Pleistocene-aged alluvium displaying large-scale (approx. 10-12 meter) cross-bed sets.

A favorite picture of mine, taken by none other than @clasticdetritus.bsky.social
in Panamint Valley, CA, ca. 2014ish ⚒️

Spiral shaped fossil, potentially an infilling of a small gastropod mollusk shell.

Looking at sands from the subsurface coastal plain, and you just never know what you’ll see.
In related news, I just learned the term “protoconch” or an embryonic snail shell. 🐚
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Hallelujah - it’s finally payday after a very long summer.

Scuppernongs.

That’s the skeet.

If anyone is interested in going to grad school in paleo, I run a workshop series that will walk you through the process. It’s through the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and it’s free! DM me if interested.

Hey Cam, is this location accessible to others? Would you mind sharing the location with me?

I’m 45 now and recently rekindled a life-long passion for skateboarding. Most Saturday mornings I meet up with other middle aged skaters, some academics, and have some fun while getting exercise. One thing that constantly surprises me is how much things hurt when you’re old.

Russia earthquake has caused a 'parade of volcanic eruptions': Expert Among the active volcanic eruptions was the Krasheninnikov volcano, a previously at least 400-year-dormant volcano.

So, is there some consensus building that the recent 8.8 earthquake caused the new volcanic activity on the Kamchatka peninsula? ⚒️ 🌋

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Marcretions ™️

Cemented granules/pebbles or concretion/precipitate? 🤔

Let the conjecture commence

My new hero is Detective Cupp.

DOE climate report response form We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

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Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

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NOAA has released their official animation of the propagation of this week's tsunami. It took almost exactly one day to reach Antarctica and was reported at 0.6 feet high.

Stupendously dumb.

👀 during earthquakes people are often injured or killed due to falling debris as they exit buildings
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Aww, some unlucky Archean microbe left their car keys

The absolute last place on earth I wish to frolick naked is probably Talladega Natl Forest, Alabama.

My clothes-on experiences in the region (Cheaha) have all included bugs literally biting me to death.

Nice jargon! I’m here for it! This was in Maine in a relatively shallow lake, like 50ft max, and the fish is likely a redbreast sunfish.

Check out this beautiful lake-fish 🐠 nest. The fish used its tail to sweep the nest clean, essentially segregating grain sizes; sand piled around the perimeter, gravel in the center, outer margins are fine sands and silty mud. Last night there was a strong wind that modified sands with 🌊 ripples ⚒️

Evidence for bedload deposition on Mars Why focus on bedload deposition? Because it provides evidence for fluids (air-water) on the ancient Martian surface

A look at the sedimentary rocks on Mars that require flowing fluids. Focuses on bedload transport (of loose sediment) to form crossbeds - recognition of these structures provides clues to the former presence of fluids, particularly water.
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