Utah Layering

Okay then, if you're so very clever...

If we're not meant to eat rocks, how come they're named shit like "apatite"?

You're damn fucking right I have an apetite.

Perks about learning German is that it makes geology terms so easy to understand

Fenster = window; literally a term we use for erosion or tectonics revealing lower beds

Augen = eye; also literally used to describe eye/almond shaped mineral grains in metamorphic rocks like gneiss (which I learned is also a German word).

Lagerstätte(n) = bed, deposit, directly translates to "storage place"; sedimentary beds with excellently preserved fossils. Actually had to look up the meaning as I took only one class and knew what "stätte" meant.

Inselberg = island mountain; an isolated ridge surrounded by a flat plain or pediment

If you know French, geomorphology is gonna be an easy one. Rouche moutonnée, cirque, arête, lacustrine... those are the ones I know off the top of my head.

Hey, yeah you, come closer.

I literally don't give a

fuck

about your obsession that dinosaurs

need

to be scary, even with feathers.

I have made a new UQuiz:

What your opinions on dinosaurs say about you.

Have fun (it's a long one)

Shout out to yet another day of me ignoring my homework! I knew you were there the whole time! I was consumed with self inflicted brain pain and did nothing! It's hard to be alive! Thank you!

Do you love the Eras of the Earth?

Which One?

Its that time of night again when my body gets really cold to tell me to go to bed and instead i put on a hoodie and continue to research magma

Hullo-geology student.

These looks like fluvial, or river, cobbles. They get the rounded shape from moving down-stream, the rounder the rock the longer they stayed in the river.

The top one on the right, sort of white-ish, looks like a chert pebble. This is made of the same stuff as quartz, and is super resistant to weathering, so they last a long time, especially in river systems.

Both of the middle ones look sort of like granite or perhaps a breccia. Breccia is a form of sedimentary rocks where smaller rocks get cemented together and make a bigger rock. The angular shapes of the rocks looks like feldspars, indicatinf a granite that got weathered. I think that the bottom left one is also a granite.

The top left one and bottom left one I dont really know. They both kinda look like granites, but it is difficult to tell. The bottom left one looks like it cooled with magma mixing, so there are larger grains with smaller ones, a texture called porphyritic.

I should note, this is based almost entirely on grain size, coloration, and pattern. I am also guessing because I don't know the geologic history of the area. Soooo i might be wrong but this seems like the most likely based on the images.

Thanks for showing me rocks i think theyre really nice

i wish i had a geologist friend who could sit me down and tell me everything about these rocks and what kind of rock it is and how they were formed and everything about them:(

theyre just normal rocks but i want to KNOW about them.

i love grocery shopping!!! The best parts are when my hands go numb and my heart and lungs get to play jump rope!!!!