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Great Salt Lake/Farmington Bay

. . . with pelican.

Farmington Bay at sunset

Photo of the day (Farmington Bay & Wasatch Mountains, Davis County, Utah)

More Columbines above the Rock Island Trail in Lee's Summit

Roadside Dames Rockets

Sunday over the Great Salt Lake marshes

Winterset limestone above the Rock Island Trail in Lee's Summit.

Backyard wildflower plus cat

Columbines off the Rock Island Trail in Lee's Summit

@stib @nothingfuture @hughtaylorscifi@universeodon.com @LabSpokane @v_perjorative @cycling @mastobikes I've worn through more than a few rims with rim brakes as well...that's definitely a downside.

@Zweistein2Stein I had Covid 9 months ago and still feel like absolute garbage.

Just submitting my personal data point!

Little Blue Park and trail

@minogully@mstdn.ca They might have some specific definition of "constant" in mind, or some specific situation or usage.

Just for example, in a polynomial expression we often write it with constants denoted like a, b, c and the variable is x. So ax^2 + bx + c.

That type of constant is a different thing than pi, even though we typically use the same word to describe them. Like if you wrote ax^2 + bx + pi, that mean something different than ax^2 + bx + c.

But still, that is sort of a strange thing to just blurt out randomly without taking the time to give a full explanation. Just for example, pi is one of the first specific examples given in the Wikipedia article on mathematical constants: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_(mathematics)

Green River, Utah

Biked to Dover Station. This is one of roughly 1000 *amazing* places along the Missouri River that you can visit on MoBikeFed's Lewis and Clark Missouri River Adventure Bicycle Route: https://ridewithgps.com/events/105329

Sunset at the Great Salt Lake. #utah #GreatSaltLake #BikeTooter #gravelbike #gravelcycling #photo

More from our visit to Crouse Canyon in the eastern #UintaMountains of #DaggettCounty #Utah. FYI the red sandstone formation you see throughout is the Uinta Mountain Formation, which has been called "the sandstone that fooled the great geologists".

Powell, Hayden, Emmons, and King all thought the rock was mid-Paleozoic but in fact it is *Pre-Cambrian*.

TLDR: They thought it was about 400 million years old but in fact it is 650 million - 2.5 billion years old. So they were off by a bit.

The Crouse Canyon formation here is about 800 million years old.

What is unusual for rock this old is that is it is mainly plain old sedimentary sandstone. Strange for rock buried 15-20,000 feet deep for several hundred million years. Some deeper/old layers are partially or completely metamorphosed, but these upper layers are not.

https://plantsandrocks.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-sandstone-that-fooled-great.html

#GreenRiver #BrownsPark #OutlawTrail #geology #precambrian #sandstone #metamorphic

Touring Crouse Canyon in the eastern #UintaMountains in #DaggettCounty #Utah #GreenRiver #BrownsPark #OutlawTrail

Moonset