Geology

Please do not explore the evacuated locations and currently bare riverbed as you could be swept away without any prior warning

Evacuation and Affected Locations

Country: Canada
Province: BC
Local Regions: Chilcotin River, Fraser River

Additional Sources

• EmergencyInfoBC
• Globalnews.ca
• CTV News Vancouver

Geology Hub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoRx-tUzbjw

Interesting description of the 3 phases involved when such deep mantle earthquakes have a theoretical limit of 3.8 magnitude.

Geology Professor Shawn Wilsey on location with a twisted slate rock unit in Idaho. (8:12 minutes)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foliation_(geology)

Foliation with slatey cleavage perpendicular to bedding - Giggity Giggity

Some background on the earthquake swarm off the Vancouver Island coast.

Forbidden Fibers

These look to me like regular intrusive iron rich veins. Boulder is about 1m across, and sandstone/mudstone, area is volcanic.

I am not a geologist.. any ideas?

Brand new amateur collector here, I have a piece of a rock that im trying to identify that is covered in what seems to be iron, which is hiding this bright blue rock ive never seen before, however the rock is full of bubbles and is extremely jagged, is there a way to examine and polish without harming the shape

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/14740589

high arctic desert. Yes there's water, but no real vegetation.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/13425339

Sauce: https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_076510_2230

Source: https://xkcd.com/2501/

Alt text: "How could anyone consider themselves a well-rounded adult without a basic understanding of silicate geochemistry? Silicates are everywhere! It's hard to throw a rock without throwing one!"

To the surprise of no environmental geo anywhere

Geologists have long known that around 155 million years ago, a 5,000 km long piece of continent broke off western Australia and drifted away. They can see that by the 'void' it left behind: a basin hidden deep below the ocean known as the Argo Abyssal Plain. The underwater feature also lends its name to the newly formed continent: Argoland. The structure of the seafloor shows that this continent must have drifted off to the northwest, and must have ended up where the islands of Southeast Asia are located today.