Not only is pretty, it's a phenomenal geological dating tool and is especially useful for planetary geology! researchers can use zircon to track the timing of impact events and magma crystallisation billions of years ago☄️ https://t.co/LDzjQcSpZs

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The Fall Line is an ancient geological feature. Lined by a string of waterfalls, it divides the hills of the Piedmont region from the Atlantic coastal plain.

Now, the line is a near-perfect boundary between left-trending & right-trending areas in Metro Philly.

Why? A thread:

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Its the last day of There are no gaps left on our geological map, but fear not, we have one time period left: the Pleistocene!

This lasted from 2.5 million to 12000 years ago and covers a time of environmental change often called the Ice Age

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The Eye of Sahara is a circular geological feature in the Sahara's Adrar Plateau. It's about 40 km wide and it is only from space is possible to see it completely

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sediment.394/stratified geological crusts/seafloor kelptic rush

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🗿 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London. v. 5 (1849)
London [etc.].
https://t.co/N6IQbrZ0ya

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Generalized Photogeological Map of the Moon by the U.S. Geological Survey (1961) https://t.co/b8acV1eARm

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‘In 1878 Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observed geological features on Mars which he called canali (channels). This was mistranslated as "canals" which, being artificial watercourses, fuelled the belief in intelligent extraterrestrial life on the planet.’

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Loch Snizort, Isle of Skye. Painted on a geological map which makes for a colourful underpainting.

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Republic Special Forces hide from the Confederacy in mysterious geological formations on an unknown world.
(2021)

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June 14, 1900, Hawaii islands annexed by the 🇺🇸
1938 geological map of Ohau, 1942 map of Maui, 1945 map of Hawaii

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On the today, an illustration from John MacCulloch’s 1819 geological guide, ‘A Description of The Western Isles of Scotland.’

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"It is an experiment in geologic expression, whose digital images — each born of its own energy and processing power — question the geological consequence of new virtual worlds" -

Read on 👉https://t.co/Aye1Gee1ZM

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April 26, 1774, birthday of German Christian Leopold von Buch. Introduced the Jurassic, the concept of guide published some of the first geological maps & argued that the formed by magmatic intrusions 🌋
https://t.co/jkdW3zeW5s (🇩🇪)

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7. All four BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN RAILROADs have nearly-identical (mirrored/rotated) layouts, but are scaled for their parks, uniquely placed, and even use different real world geological inspirations for their "mountains."

📚 Learn more: https://t.co/tl1onJ2JVK

(DL | MK | DLP)

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~The Forgotten Land~ 🗺️ SPOILERS!!
I redrew the entire world map from Kirby and the Forgotten Land! I legit went in-game and traced out the borders and the angles, so this is as accurate of a geological map that I could make! This took like 5 hours!

Retweets appreciated!

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🚨MAJOR geological discovery!Earths rarest gemstone has been located!Extensive hours spent exploring the globe unearthed these amazing natural resources!Wanna see these amazing gems?Me too, but no pics have surfaced!

🔥In the meantime, check out this badass 👉

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Made a geological discovery today bois

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