Jason R. Patton @earthjay@qoto.org

#Photography has been a natural complement to the #fieldwork that I've performed over the years. It's afforded me opportunities to visit places like this canyon in northern #Iceland. The columnar basalt lining the canyon sidewalls are #geologist's dream!

This view was captured from my #drone during a trip in 2019. I had just finished performing fieldwork focused on #dronemapping several #periglacial and #glacial sites across the island and took the last week of the trip for some sightseeing!

As Stephen Schwartz points out on Twitter, today is the 51st anniversary of the United States' largest ever underground nuclear test - about 5 Megatons at Amchitka Island, Alaska.
The waveforms displayed are freely available from the following site - all digitized from analog seismic stations in the Former Soviet Union (in Central Asia)
https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/Monitoring/Arch/digitized_analog_FSUarchive.html

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/british-geological-survey_do-you-want-to-work-for-a-world-leading-geological-activity-6995037545088614401-hhNP?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

Wondering what’s #shaking in your part of the world?
See the live seismograms that record #earthquakes (near and far), #windstorms and any other event that might cause the ground to shake (could be a moose walking by).

In #Canada, see the last hour of ground shaking here:
https://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/stndon/wf-fo/index-en.php

Around the world, see 24-hour seismograms:
IRIS:
https://www.iris.edu/app/station_monitor/#Today//map/
Raspberry Shake network:
https://stationview.raspberryshake.org/#/

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Have just realised that #academics can use @ORCID_Org to
#verify themselves.

Just include your full mastodon link (like this: https://mas.to/@marekmcgann) in the "Websites and Social Links" section in ORCID, then include link to your ORCID record in your Mastodon profile.

Hurray for distributed digital identities!

The absolute BEST thing about Mastodon? No DMs… ☠️

Hello! As an #introduction to me, I am a #geologist who studies #topography and how it reflects active #tectonics with a special focus on bedrock #rivers.

I am passionate about #openaccess publishing and #opensource software development for geoscientists. I'm looking to connect with other twitter refugees and new folks as well!

Early reports from multiple agencies indicate a shallow #earthquake occurred in #Italy, M5.5-6.0, widely felt. Approximate location is shown on a #tectonic map from Trippetta et al. 2019 with a yellow blob.

Magnitude 5.7 #earthquake in Adriatic Sea, East of Central #Italy about 15 minutes ago (2022-11-09 06:07:26) Data from station MN.CUC (Castrocucco, Italy) courtesy of INGV, Italy (https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=1187048#scientific)

Tuesday update on the #mastodon growth. 135k (!!) users join yesterday. Also, I'm zooming out the plot to see the evolution in the number of new users through the last year. I'm going to need a logarithm scale pretty soon 😎

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I love the graphic on the cover of this 1977 Bulletin from the Oregon Dept. of #Geology on North American #Ophiolites.

Hi! I’m an environmental geoscientist and educator who believes passionately that meaningful place-based geoscience education can change the world.
I share about science, education, equity and my family. #Introduction #Geoscience #Science

Ever seen a headline about #volcano smoke? The grey plume that rises from a volcano isn't smoke at all, it's volcanic ash (yeah I know, the confusing term doesn't help). It's made up of pulverized rock, crystals, glass, and gases, & produces different dangers to smoke.

It's also not at all fluffy like movies like to show.

You can learn more about it and how to protect yourself here: http://inthecompanyofvolcanoes.blogspot.com/2019/05/volcanic-ash-is-not-fluffy-volcanoes.html

#science #SciComm #volcanology #eruption #geology #Geoscience #blog #NaturalHazards