Twitter user Harry Jeffries shares this image of a map that his grandfather made of Scotland using rocks from that nation over the past 30 years. He's an amateur geologist and this map is geologically accurate, as the ro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/28/A-Geologically-Accurate-Map-of-Scotland/What a perfect birthday cake for a geologist! We don't know anything about the person who baked this "sedimentary layer cake", but we'd wager he or she's down to earth about the amount of time and labor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/22/This-Cake-Rocks/(Photo: Raita Futo)You can look out the window on... ...:"I realized that most people don’t have my geology background, and that they might be missing out on... ...nd Flyover Country will automatically display the geology of the area.-via Breda Fallon
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/11/How-a-Geologist-Designed-the-Perfect-App-for-the-Window-Seat/(Photo: Jeremybrooks)It's not a water slide or a snow slide, unfortunately. The Devil's Slide is an unusual rock formation east of Ogden, Utah. The limestone ridges are 12 meters high, 4.5 meters apart, and a very long 2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/02/17/The-Devils-Slide/(Photo: Curtin University/Desert Fireball Network)Prof. Phil Bland of Curtin University is ecstatically happy for a reason. The rock that he holds in his hand is the oldest in the world. It's an extremely rare meteorite...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/15/Geologists-Find-Meteorite-Older-Than-the-Earth-Itself/Iceland lies at the border between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates, which are moving away from each other at the rate of 2 centimeters per year.In the late 18th Century, one spot in the gap known as the S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/11/Scuba-Diver-Hangs-out-Between-2-Continents/(Photo: Northwest Territories Geological Survey)This is what Peel Plateau Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada looks like now.(Photo: Scott Zolkos/University of Alberta/National Post)It used to look like this. But...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/10/This-Lake-Fell-off-a-Cliff/(Photo: Ansgar Walk)The Smoking Hills are located near Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Coast of the Northwest Territories. When Royal Navy Captain Robert McClure explored the area in the 1850s, he thought that the smoke on t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/23/The-Smoking-Hills-of-Canada/You're not ready for a dirt nap, but you're ready for a good night's rest in a warm bed. And what could be warmer than being deep inside the Earth, ever closer to the core. This bedding set sold by the Land of Nod shows...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/08/This-Cool-Bed-Shows-the-Layers-of-the-Earth/(Photo: Tzuhsun Hsu)(Photo: terry39jp2005)Utoro is a small port town in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. Looking over the harbor are the fearsome Godzilla Rocks, so named for their resemblance to that monster. My...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/25/Rock-Formation-in-Japan-Looks-Just-Like-Godzilla/
