Loved this outcrop so much I had so get a picture with it. Connemara, Ireland4yr ⋅ TheBacon_Gator ⋅ r/geology
Clearer photo of the Rift in Hatay, Turkey. 200 meters long and 30 meters of depth1yr ⋅ KebabG ⋅ r/geology
Take a look at the 3 Jurassic age volcanos hidden underneath 5,000 ft of sediment below Georgia’s Coastal Plain.1yr ⋅ clssalty ⋅ r/geology
my geology teacher lit a rock containing oil on fire the other day! 🔥🪨1yr ⋅ Gender-Error404 ⋅ r/geology
Impulsively drove 16 hours to see some BIFs to celebrate undergrad graduation - did not disappoint3yr ⋅ honeybeeyotch ⋅ r/geology
Surface rupture at Hassa, Turkiye, southernmost extent of the rupture.1yr ⋅ compuhyperglobalmega ⋅ r/geology
Cut in a coal mine just off the Alaska Highway outside of Grande Cache, Alberta. By far the most amazing folds and striking outcrop I've ever had the pleasure of gawking at!1yr ⋅ Bananaman1229 ⋅ r/geology
Striking Example of an Imbrication Deposit during the Anthropocene [Flash floods in Germany].2yr ⋅ good_and_cheap ⋅ r/geology
Here’s some cool ones showing horizontal columns - one interpretation is that the flow came in contact with a glacier, changing the temperature gradients. Near Squamish BC1yr ⋅ Ok_Ad7832 ⋅ r/geology
Very Rare Mineral, Rhonite from Eiffel, Germany, Recent microscopic picture I took1yr ⋅ Cormski ⋅ r/geology
Cleveland volcano in remote Alaska. One of the more active places on earth, geologically speaking.11mo ⋅ mrxexon ⋅ r/geology
Atomic arrangement in mineral Biotite aka Black Mica. Image captured with electron microscope.2yr ⋅ NanoExp ⋅ r/geology
Concretion ? Sitting on a river bed of siltstone / black sand . New Zealand1yr ⋅ Sudden-Fecal-Outage ⋅ r/geology
We present to you... The “Vortex Garnet”. A truly remarkable etched Spessartine Garnet, nearly flawless and a complete floater! Weighing in at a little over 42 grams this specimen comes from the Navegadora Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil circa early 2000’s. Still Photography by Connor Williams1yr ⋅ RockNCrypto ⋅ r/geology
I found this while working, I tbh it's the first one I have ever come across1yr ⋅ Difficult_Ad_6955 ⋅ r/geology
The world’s tallest natural arch in far western China, a place so remote it was only ‘rediscovered’ 20 years ago by a National Geographic expedition. Estimates indicate the arch spans 1,500 feet high.1yr ⋅ intofarlands ⋅ r/geology
This wildly obvious fault on submarine rock in Sedona. 44mm Apple Watch for scale3yr ⋅ Rebel228 ⋅ r/geology
The Richat Structure (40 km / 25 mi in diameter), Mauritania, Northwest Africa1yr ⋅ NiceLapis ⋅ r/geology
I found this Basalt outcrop at Staffa, inner Hebrides, Scotland, fascinating.3yr ⋅ Christopherfromtheuk ⋅ r/geology
Anyone have info on this formation? It's probably in Utah or Colorado. The photographer took it from the left side of the plane flying east, so the camera is pointed north.7mo ⋅ AudenRaybourn ⋅ r/geology
Question while we're on basalt columns. Why are some hexagons and some are pentagons?1yr ⋅ but-what-about5 ⋅ r/geology
In St. George Utah. Am i seeing 2 tectonic plates ramming against each other or is it something else?1yr ⋅ Welderscum ⋅ r/geology
In case you have never seen one, these are manganese nodules. The photo at the front is what the sea floor looks like where these form.1yr ⋅ Objective_Reality232 ⋅ r/geology
[OC] Came across this beautiful fold while hiking to the Fire Bowl in the Lake Mead Recreational Area, NV.3yr ⋅ spaide333 ⋅ r/geology
Walked downtown a couple weeks ago and I’ve grown to appreciate the parking lot cut outs more since I caught the geology bug10mo ⋅ rebel1031 ⋅ r/geology
Two orders of polygonal/columnar jointing in basalt, Cape Stolbchaty, Kunashir Island, Kuril Islands. (photo: Sergei Kotov)2yr ⋅ h_trismegistus ⋅ r/geology
I’m interning as an environmental geologist right now and made this after my first week in field work3yr ⋅ big_griffy ⋅ r/geology
Fluids passing through tiny fissures, works in a teacup, works in a rock formation.2yr ⋅ nygdan ⋅ r/geology
Fall colors from Star Gap Arch in Kentucky's Red River Gorge [OC] (2500 × 1400)2yr ⋅ crumbbelly ⋅ r/geology
Found near the shoreline bay of fundy, Nova Scotia. What would cause this shape? Rounded and smooth on backside.5mo ⋅ untimelyawakening ⋅ r/geology
I found some micro plastic in a deep sea sediment sample. Explanation in the comments.1yr ⋅ Objective_Reality232 ⋅ r/geology
Crazy blue goo found in a cave. We sampled it this weekend. More info in comments.2yr ⋅ chucksutherland ⋅ r/geology
Basaltic dyke exposed by erosion, with light brown, layered hyaloclastite. Fayal island, Azores, Portugal. Photo Copyright © Heidi Soosalu/Wikimedia2yr ⋅ Ed_Trucks_Head ⋅ r/geology
Imagine hiking out to a beautiful outcrop and someone has done this. Thoughts?1yr ⋅ BobcatMysterious4930 ⋅ r/geology
Bull Canyon dinosaur tracks in the snow at the edge of a cliff at 8500 feet, east of Moab1yr ⋅ Birdy_Cephon_Altera ⋅ r/geology
Aerial Photograph of SP Crater & San Francisco Volcanic Field, Northern Arizona1yr ⋅ ythompy ⋅ r/geology
Why are there so many geological formations with Devil in the title. Devil's hall in Guadalupe mountains NP1yr ⋅ nakedmonke ⋅ r/geology
A textbook worthy shot of some crosscutting dykes in the western cliff of the cirque Sætet, in the Gjelsvik Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Grey gneiss (1.1Ga) intruded by dykes of felsic pegmatite (white), amphibolite, and syenite (brown).3yr ⋅ DurinsFolk ⋅ r/geology
The Tessellated Pavement, which looks manmade but was formed 300 million years ago when the siltstone was fractured and then eroded by the ocean into these 'tiles'. It's extremely rare, found only in a few places on earth. This is my painting of the one in Tasmania, Australia.1yr ⋅ hazzlaw ⋅ r/geology
