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A channel dedicated to the #History of #Earth #Sciences 🌍 run by an Alpine #Rock G(e)o(logist)at ⛰️🔨🐐
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125.000 years ago, Central Asia: A group of Neanderthal hunters patrolling near the ice-shield covering most of the continent in the north discovers a strange rock in the glacial debris...
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Stratigraphy and guide fossils of the
#Anthropocene
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Exhibit in the Haynes Motor Museum at Sparkford in Somerset
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"Geologists are very pleasant companions, especially for geologists. It’s their art, to stop at every stone, and carry out an investigation at every layer of Earth"🔎🪨
- Swiss author Rodolphe Toepffer (1799-1846)
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Geologists are just puppets who can see the strings
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Richard Lasher was on his way to Spirit Lake with his Pinto and dirt bike when Mt. St. Helens erupted in front of him on May 18, 1980) He actually managed to escape the 300-400°C hot pyroclastic flow by car, and after the car broke down due to ash in the engine, by motorcycle.
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Know the signs of Geology before it's too late 🪨
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February 11, 1889, birthday of Russian paleontologist Ekaterina Vladimirovna Lermontova, created 1st Cambrian stratigraphy of Siberia based on trilobites. Fossil animals & algae, & Cambrian biostratigraphic divisions are named in her honor
#WomenInScience
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Mount
#Etna
in Sicily erupted yesterday with lava fountains, pyroclastic flows & an ash plume 🌋
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October 27, 1904, the New York subway system officially opens - the first rapid-transit subway system in America. The "Subway Garnet" was found in 1885 on 35th Street and Madison Avenue during associated excavation work (for the sewer system) in the Manhattan schist 💎
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"Geologists are very pleasant companions, especially for geologists. It’s their art, to stop at every stone, and carry out an investigation at every layer of Earth"🔎🪨- Swiss author Rodolphe Toepffer (1799-1846)
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These wooden models of geological structures were hand-made by Thomas Sopwith (1803-1879). They were used to help miners predict the structural geology in 3D.
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What astronauts see ...
What geologists see ...
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October 18, 1996, leaked photo of the Chinese fossil Sinosauropteryx hints that theropod
#dinosausr
had a feathery coat like birds 🪶
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October 27, 1904, the New York subway system officially opens. It was the first rapid-transit subway system in America. The "Subway Garnet" was found in 1885 on 35th Street and Madison Avenue during excavation work in the Manhattan schist 💎 (>2)
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October 27, 1904, the New York subway system officially opens. It was the first rapid-transit subway system in America. The "Subway Garnet" was found in 1885 on 35th Street and Madison Avenue during excavation work in the Manhattan schist 💎
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February 6, 1913, birthday of English archaeologist and paleoanthropologist Mary Douglas Leakey, her team discovered & excavated the famous Laetoli footprints
👣
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June 21, 1990, Mw 7.4 Manjil-Rudbar
#earthquake
with hundreds of aftershocks hits Iran killing about 50.000 people
Normal faults in Pliocene sedimentary rock near Zanjan, Iran
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March, 24 1945, birthday of paleontologist Robert T. Bakker, his view as
#dinosaurs
as very active, bird-like animals helped to kick-off the "Dinosaur-Renaissance" 🎂🦖
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How to draw various
#landforms
, from "Principles of Cartography" (1962) by Erwin Raisz 🌋⛰🏞🏜🌄
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November 1, 1880, birthday of German geophysicist & meteorologist Alfred Wegener. May most famous for his cotinental drift theory🌍- an early precedessor of plate tectonics - he also studied climate 🌡 & impact craters ☄
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Physical model of the Swiss Alps created by Albert Heim in 1905. The model consists of a collection of 2D cross-sections on a paper in a 3D array underlain by the geological map
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July 30, 1920, birthday of American
#geologist
Marie Tharp. Her seafloor profiles and maps based on data collected by Bruce Heezen provided evidence that mid-ocean ridges are rift zones, supporting the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s 🌍
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How to draw various landforms, from "Principles of Cartography" (1962) by Hungarian artist & cartographer Erwin Josephus Raisz (1893–1968) ✏
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A 9.000-year-old hunting shrine in the deserts of southeastern Jordan featuring a collection of fossil ammonite and nautilus shells
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The famous photo sequence by 25-year-old reporter Ted Aljibe & a collague showing a 700-1000°C hot pyroclastic flow at Mount Pinatubo
#OTD
in 1991. They all barely escaped the 100km/h fast surge.
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Prof. John G. Ramsay passed away January 12th, 2021 aged 90, author of many influential textbooks in the last 40 years he is considered the father of modern structural
#geology
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Meanwhile in
#Iceland
, a group of hungry
#geologists
studying the
#Geldingardalsgos
use pāhoehoe to prepare sausages and toast 🌭🌋
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October 30, 1986, Luis W. Alvarez (1911-1988) of UC Berkeley wins the Nobel Prize in Physics 🥇 Together with his son he promoted the "impact-theory" to explain the mass extinction 66 million years ago 🦖☄
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Famous example of a 500.000(?)-300,000-year-old handaxe from West Tofts (🇬🇧) carefully carved to display a fossil shell, perhaps by an ancient human who wanted a prettier tool 🪨
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The unconformity concerns me, but I think this about sums it up 🦠
From Geologists Drinking Beer group
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Happy Geologist's Day to whoever celebrates it ! ⚒️🎂
International Geologist’s Day began in the mid 60’s in the former USSR and technically falls on the first Sunday of April (even if the day varies in different countries)
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An unusual perspective of the eruption 🌋 of Mount St. Helens in
#OTD
in 1980, discovered on social media in 2018
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June 21, 1990, Mw 7.4 Manjil-Rudbar
#earthquake
with hundreds of aftershocks hits Iran killing about 50.000 people
Normal faults in Pliocene sedimentary rock near Zanjan, Iran
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May 1, 1851, the "Great Exhibition" of Crystal Palace in
#London
causes the first Dinomania in history 🦖🦕
#Dinosaurs
ended even on holiday cards
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September 6, 2018, aerial photo showing landslides triggered by a magnitude 6.7
#earthquake
that hit
#OTD
Atsuma Town, Hokkaido, Japan. 41 people were killed and 691 injured
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September 4, 2010, magnitude 7.1
#earthquake
rocks the Canterbury region, South Island, New Zealand. The earthquake produced a 22km-long surface rupture and up to 4m of horizontal displacement, squeezing railway lines
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June 21, 1990, Mw 7.4 Manjil-Rudbar
#earthquake
with hundreds of aftershocks hits Iran killing about 50.000 people
Normal faults in Pliocene sedimentary rock near Zanjan, Iran, 📷 by Seyed Tohid Nabav
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June 21, 1990, Mw 7.4 Manjil-Rudbar
#earthquake
with hundreds of aftershocks hits
#Iran
killing about 50.000 people
The famous outcrops near Zanjan record regional tectonic movements since the Eocene-Pliocene:
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An unusual perspective of the eruption of Mount St. Helens
#OTD
in May 1980. The driver got stuck with his car when reversing, but managed to escape using his motorcycle 🏍️🌋
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February 3, 1863, Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli realizes that strange cavities discovered in the volcanic deposits of Mount Vesuvius are the molds of the eruption's victims. Pouring a plaster mix into the cavities he could bring back their last, sad moments 🌋
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Minor eruption at Stromboli today - an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing Mount Stromboli, one of the three active volcanoes in Italy 🌋
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19 year old Jim Hobson water ski's with Mt St Helens erupting behind him.
Photographer Robert Morgan
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Archaeological evidence, like fossils featuring on stone tools or found in burial sites far away from outcrops, suggest that hominids noted and collected fossils as far as 300.000 years ago.
Artwork by Mikhail Shekhanov
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February 11, 1889, birthday of
#Russian
paleontologist Ekaterina Vladimirovna Lermontova, published the first Cambrian stratigraphy of Siberia based on trilobites. Fossil animals & algae, & Cambrian biostratigraphic divisions are named in her honor
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rail line VS shear stress (1999 earthquake in Turkey) VS normal stress (2010 earthquake in New Zealand)
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Fire and Ice 🌋❄️
Yesterday's eruption of Mount Etna, Sicily, after snowfall the last week:
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Fans in Rome cheered so loud at
#Italy
's third penalty ending the
#Euro2020Final
on Sunday with 3-2, the local INGV seismometer station registered it as a small
#earthquake
⚽
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Surface ruptures in the aftermath of the
#earthquakes
in
#Turkey
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#Syria
showing mostly lateral (strike-slip) movement with slight shortening depending how roads/railways/oucrops align to the deformation
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September 20, 1833, Charles
#Darwin
arrives back to Buenos Aires after traveling through Argentina 🇦🇷 with guachos - geological map made by Darwin ⚒📝
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The book "Dragons’ Teeth and Thunderstones - The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils" (2020) by Ken McNamara mentions examples of fossils found in an archeological context from Europe and Asia, as well as role of fossils in myth and folklore of various cultures
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Long lost civilization? Actually geometric weathering along fault systems seen in 500-million-year-old fluvial mudstones of the Avalon Zone, east coast of Newfoundland, Canada
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May 24, 1906, birthday of Harry Hammond Hess. He hypothesized that the seafloor widens along rift zones & crust movements are driven by currents in
#Earth
's mantle, providing a mechanism for plate tectonics 🌍
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April 5-6, 2003, one of strongest phreatomagmatic eruptions ever recorded in modern history occurs at Stromboli, Italy🌋
📷 by Andreas Franssen
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September 4, 2010, magnitude 7.1
#earthquake
rocks the Canterbury region, South Island, New Zealand. The earthquake produced a 22 km-long surface rupture and up to 4 m of horizontal displacement, squeezing railway lines
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August 27, 1883, in the early morning hours
#Krakatoa
explodes & collapses, causing a tsunami wave 40 meter high in the Sunda Strait, killing 30.000 people. The explosion boom is heard in Australia
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November 14, 1797, birthday 🎂 of Charles Lyell, pioneer of modern
#geology
with his textbooks ⚒️ & buddy to the other famous
#geologist
named Charles (Darwin)
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May 24, 1906, birthday of Harry Hammond Hess. He hypothesized that the seafloor widens along rift zones & crust movements are driven by currents in
#Earth
's mantle, providing a mechanism for plate tectonics 🌍
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July 10, 2015, pyroclastic flows at the Colima
#volcano
in Mexico 🌋
📷 by Sergio Tapiro Fotografía
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Jenny Clack, who has died aged 72, was a palaeontologist who solved one of the greatest mysteries in the history of life on Earth: how vertebrates made the transition from sea to land
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Darwin’s Arch in the Galápagos archipelago named after Charles Darwin collapsed early this week
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Italy's Mount Etna has been putting on a show by blowing near-perfect circles into the Sicilian sky. A new vent opened on the summit of Europe's largest active volcano & The rings are made of gases and propelled by circular currents caused by the particular form of the vent🌋🌬️
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June 26, 1960,
#Madagascar
becomes an independent country 🇲🇬
1888 Geological map of the island of Madagascar by Italian engineer E. Cortese
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October 29, 2019, research on large gypsum crystals found in Pulpí (Spain) suggests that the climate played a role in the formation of the largest publicly accessible geode in the world 💎
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October 30, 1986, Luis W. Alvarez (1911-1988) of UC Berkeley wins the Nobel Prize in Physics 🥇 Together with his son, he promoted the "impact-theory" to explain the mass extinction 65 million years ago 🦖☄
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May 12 is International Women in Mathematics Day. Danish seismologist Inge Lehman developed a mathematical model based on her research on seismic waves, demonstrating that
#Earth
has a solid inner core 🌍📏
http://52.172.159.94/index.php/epi/article/view/62671
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June 3, 1726, birthday of the famous "philosopher of the fossils” James Hutton 🎂 Pioneer of modern
#geology
⚒️ as he recognized unconformities in the stratigraphic record
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June 3, 1726, birthday of the famous "philosopher of the fossils” James Hutton 🎂 Pioneer of modern stratigraphy &
#geology
⚒️ as he recognized unconformities in the stratigraphic record
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April 26, 1900, birthday of American seismologist & physicist Charles Richter, famous for the development and introduction in 1935 of the Richter-Scale for
#earthquake
-magnitude
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July 30, 1920, birthday of American
#geologist
Marie Tharp. Her seafloor profiles and maps provided evidence that mid-ocean ridges are rift zones, supporting the notion of plate tectonics 🌍
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Richard Lasher was on his way to Spirit Lake with his Pinto and dirt bike when Mt. St. Helens erupted in front of him. He actually managed to escape the 300-400°C hot pyroclastic flow by car, and after the car broke down due to ash in the engine, by motorcycle
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#WorldKissingDay
💔 The "Kissing Stones" are huge gritstone (a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone) boulders high upon the remote moorlands of Bleaklow in the Peak District, North England
📷 by
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January 6, 1912, in a public lecture at the Geol. Assoc. of Frankfurt, 32-year-old meteorologist Alfred
#Wegener
presents his theory of a former supercontinent & drifting
#continents
🌍
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#Holiday
greeting cards from ~ 1880 by London based publisher De La Rue based on the newest paleontological discoveries of his time 🦖🎄🐘
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