reality is for people who lack imagination

‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾ goose / 23 / BS Geology / geology grad student / csu f ☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙             aspiring paleontologist | stressed hobbyist | starry-eyed dreamer

[hit-with-rock]

sometimes I get so mad that I don’t get to experience geologic time, like what do you mean eventually the us east coast will get a subduction zone?? without me?!?!

[starlit-goose]

✨🩷🕹️ Arina 👾✨🩷

IM THE VIDEO GAME BOY, IM THE ONE WHO WINS!!!

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Still one of my fav cosplays :p love shit posting at cons

[prehistoricstudying]

long time no see :]

omg hai guys, after not being active on here for like,,,,, 2? 3? years i have come back to say i graduated with my bs in geology!! im a geologist!!!

im now returning back to school for a geology grad program :D soon i shall be a paleontologist fr fr

[sighinastorm]

CONGRATS

[prehistoricstudying]

WAHHHH THANK U!!! >3<

[prehistoricstudying]

long time no see :]

omg hai guys, after not being active on here for like,,,,, 2? 3? years i have come back to say i graduated with my bs in geology!! im a geologist!!!

im now returning back to school for a geology grad program :D soon i shall be a paleontologist fr fr

[verybadpaleontologyjokes]

happy palentines day, geology edition

bonus

paleontology ones

[stormdistrict]

Illustration by from Around The Year (Floris Books)

by Elsa Beskow

[starlit-goose]

i hate doing this but i really have no other option at this point.

i had gotten kicked out of my place a few days ago and thankfully one of my friends is letting me move into his house for $750 a month, which is so much cheaper than renting an apartment with my partner where i live. i'm a full-time college student working 2 minimum wage jobs on campus and since leaving, all of my dad's bills (car, phone) have defaulted onto me and my savings is depleted. i've been sick for the past week so my next paycheck will not be nearly enough to cover my expenses. 

anything helps. the services on campus are not helping like the health center promised it would and i need food, gas for commuting to and from school, and to help save up for rent (which is due oct 1st). u are not obligated to send anything, but if u do then i have no words to describe my appreciation for u. thank u for hearing me out. pls boost!

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[54prowl]

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[verybadpaleontologyjokes]

happy palentines day paleontology edition

bonus

geology one

[franzanth]

Diapsida: The Cladogram

Version 1.11 · 20 March 2016

Attention: This post will be updated should someone here correct a mistake I made. Please consider reblogging from the original post to get the latest update.

After one exhausting week and tons of feedback from paleonerds and graphic designers, the cladograms are finally here! These cladograms explain the relationships between notable genera within the group Diapsida which encompasses all modern reptiles including birds.

The PDF version is downloadable by donation here, and merchandises such as posters and stickers are now available from my store.

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[peachdoxie]

I ended up on the Wikipedia page for "oldest dated rocks" and it's got me feeling all sorts of fucked up about the sheer size of geologic timescales.

[peachdoxie]

Rocks from the Hadean eon — the time when Earth was first forming — are extremely rare because the majority of them have been eroded or melted, or perhaps deep in the Earth, but there are some examples:

The oldest estimated Earth rock is a zircon sample with an age of 4.404 ±0.008 billion years. A few things stand out about that. First, the age of the Earth is estimated to be about 4.54 ± 0.05 billion years old. That's less than 100 million years between Earth's genesis and the creation of that zircon sample. Second, the margin of error on the age of the zircon is 8 million years. That zircon is so old that that's the most precise guess at its age.

The Earth has changed so much, geologically speaking, that a contender for the oldest known rock made on Earth was actually found on the Moon. Lunar Sample 14321, aka Big Bertha, was collected during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. In 2019 it was estimated at over 4 billion years old. This is a meteorite from Earth, back when our planet was still forming and was being impacted by massive asteroids. There may even be others older than Big Bertha on the Moon, possibly making it the best place to learn about the Hadean eon.

But you know what has me really fucked up? The oldest known rock on Earth isn't actually from Earth. The Murchison meteorite fell in Australia in 1969. Parts of it are estimated to be about 7 billion years old. Again, the age of the Earth is roughly 4.54 billion years old, meaning that this meteorite is 2.5 billion years older than Earth — older than the Solar System and the Sun, even. Our Solar System was just a large cloud of space dust when this meteorite was formed. It's that old.

These rocks were formed on timescales so far beyond our comprehension that I feel insane just thinking about them.

[americanbrightside]

Something that didn't hit me until the end of the post-that tiny 100 million year gap between the oldest earth rocks and the Earth's formation is longer than the time since the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

Deep time is quite something, isn't it?

[gottalottarocks]

Oh man you can’t talk about the jack hills zircons without mentioning the graphite inclusions. The oldest zircon found with this graphite is 4.1 billion years old, a little younger than the oldest zircons we’ve discovered, but still from the Hadean era and relatively so close to the formation of the earth. And these graphite inclusions have organic isotope signatures.

Now, bear with me, when I say organic signatures I do not mean we’ve found fossilized bacteria cells or biochemical fossils (those show up much later like ~3.8-3.5 billion years ago). Instead the carbon isotope ratios we see in the graphite are abnormally light.

So carbon-12 with 6 protons and 6 neutrons is much more abundant than carbon-13 with 6 protons and 7 neutrons, but we still see some 13C in all natural reservoirs of carbon. But many organisms from bacteria to plankton to mollusks don’t like any of the heavy carbon because it takes a little more energy to deal with. So organisms naturally fractionate carbon isotopes by preferring to use the C12 and mess up the natural ratios of 12C/13C. Nothing else can really do this except life. And we see these light 12C/13C ratios in the graphite inclusions inside these 4.1 billion year old zircons.

Even the oldest rocks on our planet have evidence of life. This really changes everything, I mean it is a pretty massive coincidence for life to show up a measly couple hundred million years after the formation of the earth. This new timescale really changes our assumptions that the development of life is rare and random.

[aurusallos]

Is Nemchin et al, 2008 the original study, or the follow-up publication talked about at Goldschmidt? I am Intrigued and want to follow the rabbithole.

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “do not stand at my grave and weep” after the poem by mary elizabeth frye. the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[nevver]

NASA

[fleshdyke]

do you love the colour of the basilosaurus

[fleshdyke]

everyone tagging this as “do you love the colour of the spine” is funnier than me

[fleshdyke]

alright pack it up boys i’ve hit my peak

[izukuwus]

Still reeling from the realization that bullet journaling was essentially created to be a disability aid and got legit fuckin gentrified

[izukuwus]

Like I'm at work and don't have the time to properly organize my thoughts atm but like.

-bullet journalling was invented by a man with a learning disability (99% sure it was ADHD but his website now just says learning disability so I can't be 100%) as a system for organizing his life/way to work WITH his learning disability

-the general concept is bullet point the important things you need to do and use a simple system of symbols to mark whether it's done, rescheduled, cancelled, etc. with very little fanfare, keeping it all in one notebook so you know where to easily find the information at a glance

-people pick it up and it starts getting popular

-bullet journaling becomes an aesthetic movement largely populated by white neurotypicals

-bullet journaling has turned into creating an extremely pretty notebook that has some function, but largely depends on complicated decoration and aesthetic function that takes more time to set up than is tenable for the people it was created for

-new entries to bullet journaling feel pressure to shop at particular stores, use particular brands, purchase lots of stationery purely for its aesthetic value, and prioritize the artistry of the pages rather than the information being stored on them

-people who would massively benefit from the original system can only really find information on it from members of the aesthetic movement. There is now a barrier to entry for ppl with ADHD and other similar conditions, as bullet journaling now requires a focus and motivation to start that these same people often lack or struggle to maintain consistently

-bullet journaling is no longer a disability aid and has become an aesthetic movement largely for middle class white neurotypicals, pushing out the people who the system was created for to begin with

[bibookmerm]

This is the original guide from the person who made bullet journalling. Super simple. Not at all high maintenance.

It was eye-opening to rewatch this after getting used to bullet journal meaning "work of highly decorative art you might journal in if it doesn't detract from the decoration" everywhere online.

[figdays]

Hey guys! 

This isn’t my usual post but my friend is doing her honours and would greatly appreciate some volunteers!

Looking for volunteers to participate in a geology game experience for honours research! Participation just requires playing a short browser game and a survey. If you are interested, please go to:   https://tinyurl.com/qutgeogame

Only condition is to please play on a laptop or PC - touchscreen is not supported

[winterhazelly]

okay tumblr I think it’s time I tell you all about rocks chonch, I have given this talk three times and it has given everyone present Much To Think About, I am all about accessible education

very long transcript and photo sources under the cut

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