Callan Bentley

Saw the new Frankenstein movie in the theater. I thought it was quite good. 👍

There's one other ~2 m tall outcrop on that road, but this Is the one where I took that photo

I hope the park is reopened by then... ☹️

The outcrop is here: maps.app.goo.gl/6hEuwaVVFVoS...

There is water
At the bottom of the ocean

For those not familiar with the source material...

Callan looking much wider and dark-haired than usual. He wears a costume consisting of a very wide suit supported internally for a wide sideways but thin front-to-back shape: slab-like, akin to Gumby.

Close-up of Callan's "Big Suit" costume framed around a VHS tape of the Talking Heads concert film "Stop Making Sense," posed in the same posture as David Byrne's Big Suit is on the VHS tape cover.

My favorite Halloween costume from my past - David Byrne's "Big Suit" from the Talking Heads movie "Stop Making Sense"

Varves white gypsum and dark brown calcite laminations where in the center of the field of view is a prominent set of layers that have been folded and overturned to the left. Particularly striking is the THICK triangles of calcite beneath the anticlines, showing I guess a detaching of the behavior of the asymmetrically folded layers relative to run of the mill symmetric folds below. Fingers for scale.

Asymmetric #FridayFold in Castile Formation evaporites, state line outcrop, Permian Basin, TX/NM. ⚒️

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Anyone else might want to contribute work to fundraise for PRI? If someone is willing to coordinate and run the auction, i will certainly spread the call to all my #sciart friends 🥰

There's more where that came from!
opengeology.org/historicalge...
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Visiting PRI was a highlight of the NAGT Eastern Section meeting in 2023. It's such a treasure.⚒️

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)

The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

You all, don't spend even ten seconds of your precious life browsing Grokipedia.

Nothing good will come of it.

Your attention adds value to something of no value.

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Fair winds and following seas, my friend.

Been there, Gigapanned that!
viewer.gigamacro.com/view/O179g76... ⚒️

The states in gray are the states where the governors are more afraid of Trump than they are of killing the people they were elected to represent.

Photograph showing a block of limestone with vertical slickensides. A few out-of-focus people look at rocks in the background.

𝙎𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙠!
(Faulting associated with the Sugarloaf landslide in McKelligon Canyon, east side of the Franklin Mtns, near El Paso, TX.)
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Very nice stuff. I'd love a slab for teaching, and I would be happy to cover the cost of shipping!!

“How did the Super Pandemic of 2026 start, Grandpa?”

“Well, Timmy —“

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"smells like money"

Photograph of rock outcrop with fingers for scale showing dozens of horizontal white and black lines The white lines are 2-3 mm thick; a few may be 4 mm top to bottom. The black lines are thinner, 1 mm maximum is my guess.

Varves in Castile Formation: seasonal wet/dry variations recorded by alternation between gypsum (white) + calcite (dark) laminae.
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YouTube video by TheGeoModels Jamaica’s crazy mountains will make Hurricane Melissa even more dangerous | Mudslide hazard

Philip Prince discussing how the geography of Jamaica is going to govern landslide impacts upon Hurricane Melissa's landfall tonight & tomorrow. youtu.be/QQ4a_01mGQY?... ⚒️

Flyer for Kat Canter's presentation: "Plan, Core, Scan, Store: Facilitating Core Research"

Flyer for Paul Bierman's presentation: "Why Greenland Matters to All of Us (hint: it's the ice)"

Flyer for David Bapst's presentation: "Evolutionary Constraint and Convergence in the Extinct Planktonic Graptolites"

Excited about next month's Geology Club speakers! ⚒️

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That's a placeholder. I have to fix a small issue with the Alleghanian case study before publishing it.
But thanks!

New case study on Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) in my (free, online) Historical Geology textbook: opengeology.org/historicalge... ⚒️

Tight chevron folding in the cliffs near Millook Haven. Lighter beds are more competent sandstones while darker strata are mudstones.

Pale sandstones and darker mudstones in alternating turbidite sequence. Beds are overturned with younging to the right. Lumpy texture on right-hand sandstone bed are load casts where the denser sand sunk down into the less dense mudstone underneath. Eroded flame structures visible. Red rucksack for scale.

View from the cliff looking down onto the foreshore. Clear bedding is visible with a tight plunging synform on the left and a tight plunging antiform on the right. Grey skies and sea behind.

Evidence of soft sediment deformation, with contorted slumped bedding. Darker discontinuous mudstone strata within the paler sandstone in the centre, and vice versa to the right.

Thoroughly enjoying checking out the spectacular folded and overturned Carboniferous-aged turbidities near Millook Haven on the NE Cornish coast.

Lovely sedimentary structures - graded bedding, slumps, load casts, flutes, all subsequently squeezed into tight chevron folds ::chef’s kiss::

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