Grant’s Hammer

Regarding the general vibes of 2025.

Looks like there are 10-20 7.0-7.9 quakes/year. So it’s certainly uncommon but not wildly unlikely to have two big quakes close in time but in very different places. Maybe it’s more common than we’d expected, similar to the birthday paradox. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Weird that the map misses all of the Basin and Range grabens that have thousands of feet of sediment, including plenty of Neogene deposits. But the overall idea is a crucial one for geologists and paleontologists to keep in mind!

A spiky tree that looks like it was drawn by Dr Suess.

A Joshua “tree” at sunset.

A shiny shistose rock with dark grey mics and hot blended and reddish quartz or feldspars or garnet streaks.

Whitish crystals in a dark rock.

Close ups of Precambrian metamorphic and igneous textures from some rocks in the campsite

Three different colored cobbles in a stream bed. One red, one green, and one gray.

A variety of welded tuffs as clasts. Oligicene-Miocene ages.

A large brown boulder full of angular pieces.

More pictures from the Beaver Dam area, far SW Utah. #geology

A dark gray rock with light gray fossil bits, and a human finger for scale

Fossil corals and other bits, unknown Paleozoic age.

The big negative is that the salary might make it hard to own a home in that community.

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This isn’t my university but it’s not far away. It’s a good opportunity for someone who loves teaching and wants to develop some undergraduate research, too. Highly deformed rocks aplenty within 5-30 minutes from St. george. #geology

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A coarse sandstone boulder with red brown plant fossils that resemble sticks and possibly some leaves.

A close up of a stem, stick, or leaf fossils

A close up of a stem, stick, or leaf fossil that appears to have parallel veins or grooves

A chaotic mash of fossil plant material in a sandstone boulder

#Triassic plant (?) #fossils from the Chinle Formation, found in a talus slope full of boulders from the Shinarump Member. I don’t recognize anything, but I’m no paleobotanist. #Paleontology

a man says " you were the chosen one " in front of a burning fire Alt: Obi Wan crying out " you were the chosen one " from one of the Star Wars

Every time I try to use @adobe.com products in the last few years, after decades of using them and enjoying them:

A photo of a monitor with an error box saying “could not complete your request because of a program error”. That request was to exit Photoshop.

@adobe.com has so enshittified their software that Photoshop can’t even complete my “request” to close the program. To Task Manager I go!

Stars scattered against a dark sky

The Big Dipper constellation in a night sky image

The Big Dipper again, more wide view.

The Milky Aau appears as a cloud in the dark sky, dotted by stars.

Some iPhone dark sky images from southern Utah. Remarkable for a phone camera, even more spectacular in person.

Pittsburgh, Green Bay, and Boston will have to fight over the filming locations for my Fox made for TV movie script titled Ref Cop: Flags of Yardage and its sequel Ref Cop II: Holding on the Justice.

Based on the CBS commercials during this Lions-Packers game I have a new pilot to sell them called Detective Police Cop.

If it is successful I will follow up with my script for Detective Police Cop: Firefighter, M.D. 911

desert summer monsoon rain, better late than never. waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site...

I’ve discovered that, at least temporarily, lower back pain is great at relieving feelings depression. Silver linings! Now time to hobble off to work.

Team aragonite might get mad if calcite keeps getting all this credit…

#polymorphs #diagenesis

Should also say @stressrelated.bsky.social has some great comments in the comment thread about oxidation and reduction in the Navajo SS, RE hydrocarbons. That’s thought to be responsible for the range of color from orange-red to sugar cookie dough color throughout the very widespread formation.

Second everything @zzsylvester.bsky.social posted about soft sed deformation of dune deposits. No sign of structural folding, but spectacular soft sed stuff prior to lithification. The texture in the foreground is really interesting, too! Not exactly backyard, but only a few hours away.

Highlighting the grain flow and grain fall deposits in the preserved lower part of a Jurassic dune, Navajo Sandstone, Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, Utah 🧪⚒️

'Prey's Breakout Star, Coco, Was a Rescue Dog "The Meryl Streep of dogs" was adopted from the Fulton County Animal Services.

Ahem…

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The most frustrating narrative around deep-sea mining is the argument that it is "better" than terrestrial mining.

There is no version of deep-sea mining that offsets terrestrial mining. The commercialization of deep-sea mining may accelerate terrestrial mining. It is an additive impact.

I forgot alt text. First video is of a tire with a bunch of soap bubbles. Second post in thread is a photo of a tire tread with a circle around a puncture.

Not very impressed with these Yokohama Geolandars, in terms of durability. Seems like a minor amount of damage to cause a leak (were inflated within 1-2 psi of spec before leak). Should be a quick patch, but when it comes time for new tires I’m almost certainly choosing something else.

Got a tire puncture today and could hear the hissing (stopped to reinflate and head home before putting on the spare). Figured I’d try the old dish soap method to find the leak and it was a lot more obvious than I expected.