Michael Light is a San Francisco-based photographer, whose work looks at the environment, cartography & geologic time.

Appropriately given 's exhibit, he's the author of a retrospective album of space photos. https://t.co/yL5ocP8MHm

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Generalized Photogeological Map of the Moon by the U.S. Geological Survey (1961) https://t.co/b8acV0WZsM

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Thanks! Geophysical data implies the slab is under the Taurides (left) and geological data that the wavelength of vertical motion is small (right) and our proposed mechanism accounts for this and respects most previous constraints of uplift rate n age! :) Feedback always welcome!

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Frosterley marble is a black limestone containing fossil corals & crinoids of the Carboniferous Period. When polished it looks like marble.
In 2014 was listed by the Geological Society as one of the best Geosites in Britain for its sandstone & Frosterley marble.

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The climate is changing at a pace unlike anything seen in the history of geological records, & scientists have overwhelmingly traced this global warming trend to human activity. Not believing in climate change is not believing in science. Artwork by Josh MacPhee

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Object Beautiful embroidered basket of paper birch bark, edged with fragrant- or sweet-grass, donated to the Kew Museum by botanist and geologist John Macoun in 1888. Macoun was Assistant Director of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada

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in 1792 the Royal George capsized whilst undergoing repairs in the Solent with loss of over 800 lives. Account in Englefield’s ‘Description of the principal beauties, antiquities & geological phenomena of the Isle of Wight’. Memorial gardens in

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I mean, look at these details! (Again folks, this is at the Geological Museum.)

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Crinoids aka Sea Lilies are cousins of starfishes & sea urchins, most of which suffered mass extinction at the end of the Permian period.

"Crinoid fossil slab"
Indiana, USA
Geologic Age: Paleozoic - Carboniferous
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History

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Using sand models to explain the concept of geologic mapping
https://t.co/H3wh3pFBCs

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July 1, 1867, the Dominion of is formed, comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec 🇨🇦 - Geological map from 1864

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I love this image, some moons of our Solar System that are geologically active: Jupiter’s moons Io and Europa, and Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Titan, with features ranging from volcanoes and water plumes to possible subsurface oceans 🌕🌑🌋♨️🌊🌫️

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Before there were ankylosaurs, there were Aetosaurs. The first try at an archosaurs tank. Desmatosuchus is one of the numerous of the Chinless formation, one of the geological formations featured in my in-prep book. Aetosaurs came in all sizes also

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Beautiful Geological Map of North America Showing Bedrock Ages

Source https://t.co/E5H5LmJ0yr

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THE RIVER KNOWS "A celebration of the geological and metaphorical power of the River" - only at Turning Tides Festival, a free music, arts, film and wellness festival on Greenwich Peninsula. SUNDAY 14TH JULY, 18.00
https://t.co/1qFK0yj3Bq

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Historic evidence of int’l coop to the discoverer of Peking Man.
Dinner menu in Peking, Apr 25, 1927.
Hand signed by 11 participants involved .
Every dish’s name includes one extinct species, with hand-written geological eras next to it.
Previous estate of George B. Barbour.

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the first named hadrosauroid taxon from Asia that is still valid, Tanius sinensis is quite an oddball, and pretty tall too. Fairly basal for its young geological age
Among the first in line for my Wangshi project

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June 14, 1900, Hawaii islands became a U.S. territory 🇺🇸 Geological maps of Maui, O'ahu & Hawai'i

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Rugged Badlands at Toadstool Geologic Park near Crawford https://t.co/yxLgDY5Sh2

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