#Rocks

#Mars #Perseverance #Rocks https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mini-book-rock-spotted-on-mars/

NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered a tiny rock that looks like a book on Mars. The rock is likely a piece of sedimentary rock that was eroded by wind or water. The book-like rock could reveal clues about the ancient environment and history of the red planet.

Rachel Armstrong

The next generation of solar energy collectors could be rocks #Rocks #Solar #power #Science https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-generation-solar-energy-collectors.html

Jason Bock

Episode 457 of FreeCodeSession is live!

FreeCodeSession - Episode 457 - YouTube

#CSharp #Rocks #mocking

James Green

Tallahatta "quartzite" (silicified sandstone) sample from SW Alabama backlit by a bright white LED. #archeology #rocks

Brown & white silicified sandstone with an area of translucent honey brown where the light is shining through.

Wolfeh

I did some more #Hiking yesterday, and got some more pictures. It was about five miles in and five miles back.

#Hike #Photo #Photography #Nature #Forest #Water #Mushroom #Rocks #Stream #NaturePorn #EarthPorn

A very healthy bunch of bright green lilies with yellow flowers grow out of an outcropping of silt along the edge of a lake. A long, young tree tree (felled by beavers) rests across the water. Lighter white flowers grow in front of the lilies.

A large mushroom grows out of the ground amid some grasses and brush, as well as small rocks.

A flowered plant grows out of a lake's shore. Trees and a lake are visible in the background.

The almost dry, rocky bed of a stream spills down a wooded slope through a forest and towards a lake.

haq

#RockCheck #SilentSunday #puddingstone #conglomerate #rocks #pebble #pebbles #Wales #Cymru

A photo of a colourful beach pebble tumbled from a conglomerate rock with several contrasting clasts.

Ninny Butters

Rocks at low tide #photography #sea #rocks #BeachyHead #iPhone

Rocks in milky sea at low tide. Blue sky.

Ruth Mottram

#OceanDrilling #JoidesResolution #Mantle #Rocks #Geology

Man, this piece in @sciencemagazine by @voooos makes me want to go back to my geology roots.
What an exciting piece of new research

https://sciencemastodon.com/@voooos/110430326729617053

Chris Rowan

Exciting #geology news: at long last, ocean drillers exhume a bounty of #rocks from Earth’s #mantle.

Some definite mood whiplash in this article from @voooos - the excitement at getting a long borehole through mantle rocks, but the sadness that the achievement of this long-held goal comes as the Joides Resolution drilling ship is on the verge of being retired. https://www.science.org/content/article/long-last-ocean-drillers-exhume-bounty-rocks-earth-s-mantle

King Volcano

#nature #rocks #photography #photo

Detail of a boulder found in South Park, PA. I really like the colors and patterns, the textures.

Dark grey boulder, rough and shaped by time, with light grey mottling, white splotches, and dotted with little green lichens. Background in upper left corner is grass beyond.

Anja

Another 🌞ny day. The water glistened so brightly that you almost couldn't look.
The hooded crow was watching my dogs 😊 and for the sheep was nap time 😉

#DogWalk #sea #sunny #cliffs #rocks #hills #Beara #Ireland #sheep #crow #dogs

A little pond in the cliffs, the sea behind and hills on the end of the shore. The water is glistening very brightly. No clouds and very bright light.

A green stony little hill with a hooded crowd standing on the top looking with a head held high

A rocky hill and a green field in front where a sheep and 5 lambs laying and sleeping

Chris White

Interbedded argillaceous & tuffaceous #sediments

These photos are of #Cambridge #Argillite, exposed above the #Squantum Member of the #Roxbury Conglomerate (#Neoproterozoic). Prior to the 1970s or so, the Squantum Member was interpreted as #glacial sediments; it's now broadly interpreted as debris flows, with the Cambridge being distal turbidites overlying it. I lead a field trip here for #UMassBoston. See captions.

#outcrop #fieldTrip #photo #rocks #tuff #Fufjilm #Venus 65mm #macro #Quincy

This map shows the location of the outcrop (black pin near center), at the north boundary of Quincy, and across Dorchester Bay from the University of Massachusetts Boston; Boston is at the top center. OpenStreetMap in MyTracks.

A close up of fine laminations in Cambridge Argillite. The light layers are probably volcanic ash or tuff, which have been highly altered. The magenta-hued layers are argillaceous: clay, silt, and fine sand. The tuffaceous layers are circa 1 cm thick; scale at bottom is blurred because of limited depth of field. The scene is about 5 cm tall. My photo.

Photo showing altenration of fine argillaceous and conglomerate layers near the boundary between the Squantum Member and the Cambridge Argillite. Scale card at base has cm and inch scales, and is about 5 cm wide; the entire scene is perhaps 50 cm tall, and the conglomerate layers are circa 5 to 10 cm. My photo.

This photograph (scene is about 60 cm tall) shows interbedded argillite (smoother, pinkish, laminated rock) and tuffaceous (volcanic ash) layers that have been altered and weathered back from the rock face. The scale at top is about 5 cm tall. My photo.

Anja

A sunny dog walk down to the #TravaudPier. It's fascinating wherever sea pinks can find a place to live and bloom. Along the pier next to the fields are many little flowers on the wall. Sitting or lying on the wall and listening at the ocean is sooo relaxing. Only my youngsters can't understand why I'm lying on the wall 😉

#Ireland #nature #landscape #photography #DogWalk #sea #sunny #cliffs #rocks #hills #Beara #ocean

A concrete pier wall with a low railing. Below the concrete you can see cliffs. Between the concrete and the cliff is a bunch of blooming sea pinks on the vertical wall. At high water they must be mostly under water.

Many little yellow flowers and some sea pinks along the wall between the field and the pier

Sitting on the wall at the end of the pier and looking at the cliffy shote and the ocean. Hills in the distance, the sky is blue with a thin layer of white clouds

Looking along the pier from the end to the beginning at the beach. Green field and green-brown hills around. Down to my feet my two little white dogs, one is looking at me, thebother is sitting and watching her comrad.

Another view from the end of the pier with less shore and more ocean. Near the horizon you can see the hills of the Kerry peninsula.

Sir Nameless 🏳️

#rock #rocks #abstract #photography #photo

Abstract rock art. Taken at some gorge thingy (lots of water in cracking hurry).

Rock cliff, eroded by fast-moving water. Nothing can be seen in the photo except the bare rock.

Mark Tillotson

So much to look at on the rocky coast of Maine. So many little details.

#Beach #Ocean #Tides #Seaweed #Rocks
#Ogunquit #Maine #OGT
#Photo #Photography

A close-up view of the rocky coast of Maine. A wall of rock on the left, smooth rocks leading to sand and the water on the right. Ocean waves breaking with green-blue water and a blue sky.

Moody feels at Ruby Beach earlier today…. #nature #naturephotography #outdoors #view #beach #rocks #driftwood #trees #forest #nationalpark #hiking #hike #wanderlust #wander #roam #mood

PeterC

#Gneiss #Rocks #Geology #Hiking

Took a trip to Antelope Island at the Great Salt Lake and all I got was pictures of rocks.

A large sharp-edged boulder with a striped pattern

A grouping of large boulders that have stripped patterns

Birds Books and Bullshit

#Science #Birds #Rocks #Geology #Ornithology #Nature #Wildlife #Government

The Bird Banding Laboratory is run by the United States Geological Survey. I used to be a scientist, so you can trust me when I say the following:

This means birds are rocks.

Ben

#PlantFossil #Paleontology #Geology #Rocks

My toddler found (threw) this #Fossil in our rock wall. Is this actually a fossil, or is geology fooling this biologist?

Light colored rock with frond like impressions

Al Andersen

3 weeks ago

A trio of #seagulls picking #mollusks off the #rocks during #LowTide on #Bandon #beach in #Oregon. The famous #FaceRock #SeaStack is in the background.

#LandscapePhotography #photography #seascape #TravelPhotography #WildlifePhotography

A color photo of a sunny day with a soft blue sky and white streaky clouds. Sea mist rises from the rolling waves that crash upon the shore. In the foreground, a trio of seagulls hop about mollusk-laden rocks revealed by the low tide, looking to feast upon whatever tasty morsels they can pry loose. A large sea stack stands majestically in the distance, surrounded by the surf.

Shannon

4 weeks ago

My beautiful necklace and anklet by @skaly! I love rocks,I collect rocks…so these are perfect for me. You should check out their shop. Link is on their page. #art #jewelry #rocks #stones

A selfie,showing a beautiful necklace with a round metal circle and red pendant stone. I

Photo of the lower part of my legs and feet showing a beautiful anklet made from small,polished rocks

Grickle

You better listen. #grickledoodle #rocks #skipping #horror #cartoon #MastoArt #drawing

Stan Carey

A relic of the last Ice Age that gives its name to Split Rock Trail (Conair na Carraige Scoilte) in the wind turbine park in east #Connemara

#rocks #nature #geology #IceAge #Galway #Ireland #hiking #walking

Photo of a grey boulder split in two on boggy ground, surrounded by light-brown marsh grasses. The boulder is about 1.5 metres high and 2 metres across, and has abundant patches of lichen and moss. The cleft is about 0.5 metres wide at the top, tapering closer towards the ground but with enough soil along the groove for grasses and a small conifer to grow in the shadow there. Behind it are stretches of tall conifers and a wind turbine under an overcast sky.

Latif Creations

Magnetite Crystals
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#Natural #Crystals #Rough #Minerals #Gemstones #Cabochons #Specimen #Faceted #Jewelry #geology #earth #stone #rockhound #photography #Pendants #gems #latifcreations #trend #aesthetic #fossil #meditation #rocks #healing

Latif Creations

Black tourmaline crystal with albite/feldspar
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#Natural #Crystals #Rough #Minerals #Gemstones #Cabochons #Specimen #Faceted #Jewelry #geology #earth #stone #rockhound #photography #Pendants #gems #latifcreations #trend #aesthetic #fossil #meditation #rocks #healing

MsLiz

#CentralOtago #NewZealand #lake #rocks #shape #landscape #water #alligator

Alligator and turtle, Butchers Dam 😆
Today in Central Otago. New Zealand
🐢 🐊 🐢 🐊

Dry rocky mountain landscape and lake. In the lake are two rocks that I fancy resemble an alligator and turtle in the water. The mountain side and a group of trees on the right-hand of the photo are reflected in the lake, a few green trees but more with golden autumn foliage.

Chris Rowan

Amongst other fun on a family visit to Boston this week, we visited the Bunker Hill Monument, which it turns out is not on Bunker Hill, because neither was the Battle of Bunker Hill (a pyrrhic victory for the British in the Revolutionary War) that it commemorates.

The monument is built of granite: I didn’t see any on the monument itself, but the curbstones on the walkway around it had some very nice pegmatite veins. #geology #rocks

View down on a curbstone made of a greyish rock composed of white, black and grey crystals a few mm across. In the centre of the field of view, two veins of larger, cm scale crystals - mostly white, some black - cut vertically across the curbstone. On the left, a human finger indicates scale.

View down on a curbstone made of a greyish rock composed of white, black and grey crystals a few mm across. In the centre of the field of view, a vein of larger, cm scale crystals - mostly white, some black - cut horizontally across the curbstone. On the left, a human finger indicates scale.

Atlas Obscura

Brady's Rocks in Eagle, Wisconsin

These modest Midwestern formations are kin to Niagara Falls' impressive cliffs, more than 600 miles away.
Brady's Rocks

Lisa Neuman Watercolors

https://2-lisa-neuman.pixels.com/featured/twin-falls-lisa-neuman.html

Waterfall along the Twin Falls hike

#waterfall #rocks #hiking #water #buyintoart #ayearforart #watercolorart

Waterfall in the woods flowing down behind some rocks.

Coastal Oregon #oregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #ocean #pacific #nature #naturephotography #outdoors #view #rocks #cliffs

Looking from high above the water at the Oregon Coast, near Yaquina Head Lighthouse. Large rocky cliffs and rock formations standing out of the water. Deep blue ocean, bright green plants above atop the cliffs.

Stitched Ink Media

#StitchedInkMedia #Ocean #Books #Nature #Science #Environment #Biodiversity #Rocks #Sea #Culture #Water #Photography #NaturePhotography #Flipboard #PhotoOfTheDay #Canada #Artist #Conservation #Art #ArtMatters #WildlifePhotography #StitchedInkPhotos #Aesthetics #FediArt #artistsofmastodon #Tuesday #Fediverse #DigitalArt #Nikon #NaturalHistory #Coast

Ocean, Where it Meets the West Coast (Canada)
Chris Handrahan (Stitched Ink Media)

Tapir Girl

I finally visited this amazing basalt formation called Titan's Piazza on Mt. Holyoke in Massachusetts, USA. #geology #basalt #rocks #hiking

Photograph of a steep rock cliff made of basalt. Portions of the basalt jut out from the cliff and have the appearance of partially-raised theater curtains. The sunshine on the rocks highlights the reddish color of the basalt, caused by the high amount of iron in the rock. Beyond the cliff, the afternoon sky is blue with some white clouds. There are trees with small spring leaves visible off to the side.

ErikTorm

Reflection ine water 🇬🇱
#Uummannaq #Greenland #Arctic #Avannaa #Mountains #Fjord #Icebergs #Landscape #Nature #Rocks

BrownsBay

A couple weeks ago, I was walking along a beach at Camano Island. The beach is below some bluffs of advance outwash sand and capped by till. There's more to that story, maybe later. There were a few cool rocks that had dropped to the beach from the bluffs, probably out of the till. Here's one rock that perfectly illustrates relative age dating and the principle of cross-cutting relationships. Basic geology 101, right? #geology #rocks #agedating #crosscuttingrelationships #relativedating

Granitic boulder with two veins of different texture cutting through the boulder and each other illustrating the principle of cross-cutting relationships.

Scrambling and free climbing up the ridge at Calico Hills for the view of Red Rock Canyon, Nevada. #nevada #outdoors #nv #rocks #hills #scrambling #climbing #freeclimbing #bluesky #desert #southwest #redrock #view #hiking #wanderlust #nature #naturephotography

MsLiz

Our walk at Mt Cargill was on the #Organ #Pipes track. A steep climb with lots of steps! We stopped at the #rock rubble, I didn't want to risk turning an ankle. Dunedin, New Zealand. Friday 31 March.

#Dunedin #NewZealand #OrganPipes #rocks #RockFormation

A dense heap of fallen pieces of "organ pipe" rock segments litter the slope. The view extends right down to the sea.

A small glimpse of the upright "Organ Pipes" rock formation can be seen just beyond the tree foliage. In the foreground of the photo are some of the fallen pieces of "organ pipe" rock segments.

hollie

#watercolor #PenAndInk #rocks

Finished the rocks! It started as a meditative exercise drawing the rocks in pen and ink, then I got curious about filling them in, so I just started playing with paint and experimented with different colors and ways of shading. Watercolors are like ukuleles - the simplest moves can be so pretty, even when you have no idea what you’re doing. :)

A jumble of rocks painted with watercolors, outlined in black ink. Attempt was made to make the rocks somewhat realistic in shape, but the colors are a bit all over the place.

hollie

Still filling in rocks. In case you’re wondering who needs this much paint - no one, lol, certainly not a doodler like myself, but I find it really hard to resist paint. #watercolor #rocks

On the right a pad of paper with some multi-colored rocks, surrounding that is a variety of palettes. A jar of water sits at the top of the photo.

Chris Rowan

https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/5203/

"You just look at #rocks, and have beards". Lots to chew on in this new preprint on @eartharxiv on attitudes to #geology in the UK, from a survey that included both those who had and had not studied it at school/university.

Some of the perceived barriers to recruitment are familiar: the lack of diversity; accessibility & climate issues surrounding fieldwork; the association with environmentally damaging industries & exploitation.

But also... 1/5 #EarthScience

Deb Oppermann

The #ChikanishingRiver, #KillarneyProvincialPark #Ontario Canada presented a beautiful #fall scene with the colorful foliage, stunning #reflections, and white water as it flowed over the river #rocks. It was a great place to just sit, relax and enjoy the beauty of nature.
Artwork available here
https://www.pictorem.com/151967/Chikanishing%20River%20In%20Autumn%20I.html
#landscape #LandscapeLover #nature #NatureLover #photography #PhotographyIsArt #autumn #trees #MastoArt #artwork #wallart #SpringIntoArt #SupportTheArts #artwork #FreeShipping

Vertical fall image with colorful trees, pine trees, rushing water over rocks and reflections.

The Public Domain Review

From James Sowerby's British Mineralogy (1802–1817).

Despite his scientific leanings, Sowerby was first and foremost an artist, adept in describing and demonstrating how complex questions of perspective, scale, and color functioned in individual objects: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sowerby-mineralogy #rocks #geology #illustration #histodon #art #science #histsci

Deborah League

Art -https://www.etsy.com/listing/784563923/seascape-art-print-watercolor-painting

Seascape with reflections in wet sand, watercolor

#buyintoart #mastodon #art #artist #seascape #watercolor #beach #wallart #homedecor #artwork #MastoArt #coastal #ocean #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #watercolorpainting #cloudyday #waves #rocks #wetsand #reflections #painting #mastodonart #waterscape #moody #silentsunday

In this seascape, blue and white rolling waves relentlessly encroach on the beach, crashing into and spraying foam against large rocks just offshore. The setting sun creates a warm orange-yellow glow in the sky and creates reflections of the large rocks on the dark, wet sand. Communication towers rimming a distant island can be faintly discerned. The sand, wet and glass-like is undisturbed by man or bird.

This paining reminds me of colorful coral rocks off Kamakahonu Beach on the west coast of the island of Hawaii.

Chris Wright Photography

The weather is warming up and soon it will be canyon time again. This photo was taken last year at Barranco de la Luna near Salares. I went very early in the morning so I could have the place to myself and it is a great scramble, no drop is greater than ten feet and the water never more than six inches - though watch out in Springtime as the snow melts. #canyon #scramble #hiking #landscapephotography #rocks #river #earth #nature

Deb Oppermann

Bill Gallagher Photography

#SturgeonChutes on the #WanapiteiRiver, #FrenchRiver, in the #FrenchRiverProvincialPark is an area of outstanding beauty. The unspoiled, rugged #landscape with the pine trees lining the rocky shore, the swift flowing river and rapids and the stunning rock formations make a superb #wilderness adventure and we loved every minute of our time there.
Find it here
https://debbie-oppermann.pixels.com/featured/overlooking-the-wanapitei-river-from-sturgeon-chutes-debbie-oppermann.html
#LandscapePhotography #nature #NatureLover #rocks #CanadianShield #BuyIntoArt #SpringIntoArt #PhotographyIsArt

Rugged rocky landscape with PIne trees, bushes, scrub, wildflowers, clouds in blue sky and the chutes flowing with white water.

Sedona 10233

Sedona,
How do you describe this beautiful area tucked into North Central Arizona not far south of the Grand Canyon.
In this case, I think a picture speaks thousands of words. You could forever try to describe the beautiful rock formations but I'm not sure that words are adequate. See the full image here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/sedona-10233-bill-gallagher.html #AYearForArt #BillGallagherPhotography #Sedona #Arizona #Nature #Clouds #Rocks #Mountains

Above Tumwater Falls, Washington. #wa #washington #pnw #river #water #fall #autumn #trees #rocks #nature #video #northwest #pacificnorthwest #view

River flowing over rocks into Tumwater Falls in Autumn. Fall colours on the trees.

Lisa Neuman Watercolors

#maine #acadianationalpark #jordanpond #rocks #watercolorart #danielsmithwatercolor #princetonbrushes #buyintoart #artprints #artforsale #ayearforart #SpringForArt

Jordan Pond at Acadia National Park

Find it here: https://2-lisa-neuman.pixels.com/featured/jordan-pond-lisa-neuman.html

Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park, Maine. This watercolor has fall colors on the hills and a large pile of rocks near the shore.

Deb Oppermann

While winter is not my favorite season it sure is beautiful with the fresh white #snow on the ground and the snowy #rocks in this winter #creek. This rocky creek flows into the #SpeedRiver in #Guelph #Ontario Canada.
Check it out here
https://debbie-oppermann.pixels.com/featured/snow-capped-rocks-winter-creek-debbie-oppermann.html
#landscape #LandscapePhotography #winter #nature #BuyIntoArt #SpringIntoArt #NatureLover #MastoArt #photographer #PhotographerOnMastodon #PhotographyIsArt #ArtBooster #homedecor #artforsale #wallart

Winter scene with snow covered trees, dead wood, creek, rocks, weeds and snowy ground.

Matt Brunt

#NoFilter #Coastline #Malta #Ocean #Rocks

Not a bad spot for a Sunday morning walk! That view! 😍

A photo from the coastline with a teal-blue ocean and the red rock of the land

Marlowe

Dreamy scene on the San Francisco Bay. I like the texture.
#Photography #SanFranciscoBay #Seagull #Rocks

Snoqualmie River, Washington #snoqualmie #river #wa #washington #rocks #trees #forest #evergreens #bluesky #view #nature #naturephotography #photography #outdoors

Looking down river at Snoqualmie River, rocks in the water, blue sky, evergreen trees along the banks.

Anne Jefferson

There were some taller frozen #waterfalls on the cliffs above us on the hike up Mt. Philo, #Vermont. But I couldn't get a closer shot from the road. Here I like the contrast between the #ice and the browns & grays of the #forest and #rocks. #WaterfallWednesday #frozen

Foreground is forest with bare deciduous trees, one with yellow-gray leaves. Forest floor is covered with fallen leaves, rocks, and a dusting of snow. Beyond the forest you can see frozen waterfalls cascading down a rock face. Some trees are atop the cliff and grey skies are behind.