Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Geo 889: Stranded Terrace II

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A shot from nearby yesterday's, which zooms in a little closer to the small remnant of stranded terrace deposits . I like the framing ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Geo 888: Stranded Terrace Deposits

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Overlooking a small cove just north south of Sunset Bay, one can fairly easily spot the buff-colored layer of semi-consolidated sand, abo...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Geo 887: Wave Refraction

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As an ocean wave approaches shore, it reaches a point where the decreasing water depth causes it to slow and pile up. Wave frequency (numb...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

One Year From Today

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The blue line across the middle represents the mid-line of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse. The shaded area around that line repre...
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Sunday, August 14, 2016

Geo 886: View of a Broken Shoreline

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You can see (barely) the two beds from yesterday's photo behind Gary, and the fault in that photo is the nearly horizontal dark line ...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

Geo 885: Lovely, But Not Without Fault

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Sunset Bay is gorgeous, but not without fault. In fact, the whole thing is eroded around a major (inferred, but not directly observable, a...
Sunday, August 7, 2016

Geo 884: Not Just a Pretty Face

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As I predicted in yesterday's post , today's is a bit to the left, and without scale. The cobble in the lower right is the same on...
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Saturday, August 6, 2016

Geo 883: Riddle Me This

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In this photo from Sunset Bay State Park, north is to the right, west toward the top, and so on. Which direction is stratigraphic "up...
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Sunday, July 31, 2016

Geo 882: More Ball and Pillow... But Wait! There's More!

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The more I look at this photo, the more little details I'm spotting. Starting with the colorful band of sediments near the top, one ca...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Geo 881: Ball and Pillow

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Hey boys and girls! Remember me? I'm that guy who used to talk about rocks all the time! I finally got out last weekend to re-familiar...
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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Sunday Funnies: Gifted Edition

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Loading Artist Obvious Plant Tastefully Offensive Balloon Juice TYWKIWDBI Tastefully Offensive Cyanide and Happines...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Sunday Funnies: The Force Hits the Snooze Button Edition

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Nope, haven't seen it, and won't anytime soon. "The theater experience" leaves me pretty cold these days, not to mention t...
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