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A nice gneiss😂

Amphibolite gneiss from Stateville NC

#Rockhound #Geology #Geoscience

Anchor chart titled "End of Unit Reflection: Topic: Environments and Survival." Below are four questions, with sticky notes beneath each containing student responses: "U – What do you understand about the topic?" "N – What new information do you have?" "I – What's interesting about it?" "T – What was tricky for you?"

Here's how educator @mrswendymturner.bsky.social ties up end-of-unit loose ends – check it out!

Anywhere so I can get funding to do a PhD! Having work 2 jobs to barely survive like I am now while doing my masters is tough😮‍💨

This is a sad but interesting question. How many grad students will leave and where, if anywhere will they go ?

Favorite gem

Favorite mineral

Favorite rock

Favorite fossil

Favorite Gem stone:Tanzanite
Favorite mineral: Azurite
Favorite rock: Western Australian Banded Iron Formation
Favorite fossil: anything in the Mammutidae
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Watch seismic waves from the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar ripple across North America.

This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.

⚒️ This looks bad, bad, bad: moment magnitude of 7.7 earthquake near Mandalay, Myanmar (95.9°E, 22.0°N), at a depth of 10 km.

Strong inland shaking in a heavily populated area - USGS PAGER alert level is RED. Following thread compiles useful information from reliables sources I have seen on here.

The M7.7 Myanmar earthquake occurred on the Sagaing Fault. This right-lateral strike-slip fault is one of the major faults that defines the plate boundary between the Indian and Sunda plates.

Rock Identification xkcd.com/3068

A yellow diamond sign that simply says "ROCKS"

Oh HELL yeah, buddy.

Can I predict an earthquake? Sure!

There will be an earthquake in California today.

But this isn’t meaningful because there are earthquakes in CA EVERY DAY.

For an earthquake prediction to be meaningful, it has to specify a time, location, & magnitude that is unlikely to occur randomly. 1/ 🧪

I need to go to Arkansas to get more of this quartz 😍

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I generally keep them to teach. If not sell them sometimes or give out my waste rocks to K-12 students when I do school visits

Nah this is justified

I love the Beryl family ( aquamarine, emeralds, etc. ) Def top 5 types of minerals.

Mindat.org Mindat.org is the world's leading website about minerals and where they come from.

No you are right. I don't have any books to recommend expect your regional mineral guide. I prefer to use Mindat.org since its free online guide and general has pictures, the localities, and other important information for a geologist for a lot of minerals.

That is emerald. The hard part is trying to find the locality of it based on the off the matrix.

Time to ID what I got. #mineralmonday #blacksky #geology #rockhound

Sure I’m happy if you dm me to help ID

Here some Fluorite to brighten up your day 😊
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#Geology #paleontology

Finally back home from the Tampa Bay area. I'm mad that I wasn't able to bring a shovel and sieve with me. Not the less some good finds from the Plio-Pleistocene sediment.

Very much this.

Just going to put this here to let y’all determine if cutting down more forests would help us much here in the US. Makes sure yall share this post.

#Environmentalscience #Earthscience #Educate #Blacksky

Im just over here dying! Barely can talk.

standupforscience2025.org

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Finally collected over 3500 fossils from this creek. Time to be a data nerd 😎

#Geology #Paleontology #Blacksky #FossilFriday

Have you ever heard of a limnic eruption? Probably not, since only a few have occurred in recorded history. Here is a thread on one of the wildest natural disasters that almost never happen, and the “invisible tsunami” that claimed over 1,700 lives in the middle of the night, without a sound. 1/10🧵

Made it to level 26 #Blacksky