Lava pours into the ocean creating a plume of acidic steam. A tour boat is way too close!
Visiting the vent of the 1959 eruption in Kīlauea Iki, Hawaii. #geology #geoetc #volcano #eruption #kilauea #hawaii
The Devils Coachhouse, New South Wales Australia, is part of the oldest cave system on Earth. #geology #caves #geoetc #jenolan
The eroded volcanic plugs of the Glasshouse Mountains, Queensland Australia. Evidence of Australias slow passage over a mantle hotspot. #geology #geoetc #volcano #queensland
The green olivine sand of Hawaii! #hawaii #geology #geoetc #olivine #greensand #minerals
Once horizontal, these layers of sandstones and shale formed from turbidity flows on an ancient sea floor that sat between North America and a small plate called Avalonia. When the plates collided these layers were squashed up and exposed. #geology #geoetc #platetectonics #maine
Celebrating Earth Day (with thanks to AGI)
Lava flowed right through this chainmail fence in Hawaii in 2016. #geology #lava #volcano #geoetc #hawaii
Dinosaurs display in the American Museum of Natural History , New York. Full of little future paleontologists. #geology #dinosaurs #fossils #newyorkcity #geoetc
A human trace fossil. A footprint in volcanic ash (1790 eruption of Kilauea, Hawaii. #fossil #human #footprint #hawaii #geology #geoetc
Fossils in the sidewalks in Amsterdam. #fossils #geology #geoetc #amsterdam
This beauty was in the floor of a building in Boston. So you can do paleontology even in a big city! #fossil #boston #geology #geoetc
Lava flowed into this graveyard in Hawaii, forever entombing the occupants under layers of basalt. #geology #geoetc #hawaii #lava #graves
An amazing experience watching the “firehouse” of lava pouring into the ocean on Hawaii a few years ago. #geoetc #geology #lava #hawIi #kilauea
A chunk of country rock (dark) got caught up in this granite (light) forming this great xenolith in Maine. #granite #xenolith #geology #geoetc #maine
The decay of marble statues in cities around the world is linked to air pollution causing rain to become acidic. This chemical weathering can be seen in this saint in Amsterdam. #geology #geoetc #weathering #pollution #acidrain
Being “hipster”
Trying to outrun a lava flow? Teachers having fun in Hawaii on a GEOetc.com field adventure.
The twists and turns of a recent pahoehoe lava flow on Mauna Loa Hawaii. It’s unworldly. #geology #geoetc #hawaii #volcano #lava #pahoehoe
Morning on the Earths largest active volcano Mauna Loa, looking across the saddle to Hawaiis tallest volcano, Mauna Kea. #geology #volcano #geoetc #hawaii
Magmatic gases escape from a shallow magma chamber depositing these sulfur crystals on Kilauea, Hawaii. #geology #geoetc #hawaii #volcano #crystals #sulfur
A recent rock fall into the ocean mad the waters run red at Sidmouth UK. #geology #geoetc #erosion
Climbing the granite tors on Dartmoor National Park, UK. #geology #geoetc #granite #tor
A beautiful old mine head in Cornwall. #geology #mine #england #cornwall #geoetc
Cut granite slabs awaiting placement in a new structure. The skill of splitting straight slabs is great, curved is amazing! #geology #geoetc #granite #dimensionstone
Water spouts out of the Little Blowhole near Kiama on the NSW Australia south coast. A feature within a basalt (latite) flow, you see the cooling columns on the rock platform. #geology #geoetc #kiama #blowhole #basalt #columns
The base of the Permian rocks of the huge Sydney Basin is here…with evidence of glacial times. Drop stones and fauna with thick shells to protect them from the falling rocks melting from icebergs. #geology #geoetc #australia #permian #sydneybasin #fossils #dropstones
Two Kendallina sp. trilobites from the Upper Cambrian (Furongian) McKay Group of Southeastern British Columbia.
For #TrilobiteTuesday or #FossilFriday
Happy Geologist Day!
#Strataday #MistakenPoint #UNESCO #WorldHeritageSite Coastal exposures of the #Ediacaran Mistaken Point Fm (~560 MYA) -- Avalon Peninsula, SE #Newfoundland&Labrador 🇨🇦. Deep sea turbiditic deposits w interbedded volcanic ash layers preserve spectacular fossils of the oldest large, complex organisms.
