#Southern-Rock

[bettergeology]

See that white layer in this hillside? That's an extremely important white layer. 680,000 years ago (give or take), a large volcanic system in what is now Wyoming erupted catastrophically, spewing ash and debris across the North American continent. You might have heard of it, it's called Yellowstone Caldera. You may notice that these pictures in no way resemble the verdant forests of the Rocky Mountains and that is because they are from Death Valley, California, located more than 620 miles (1000 km) away from the Yellowstone Caldera!

But... it gets cooler.

The hills this ash layer is exposed in, the Kit Fox Hills, have been uplifted. The mudstone and sediments here are ancient valley fill, meaning that they used to be the bottom of the valley and are now about 400'/120 m above the current valley floor. This is the action of the Northern Death Valley fault zone, one of California's longest active faults. In this area, that fault has some excellent outcrops as seen below.

Next door to Death Valley to the west is Panamint Valley. It's not quite as big or dramatic as Death Valley but it has many of the same sorts of geologic features which have formed over a shorter geologic timeframe, interestingly. The faults in Panamint Valley just move faster than those in Death Valley so things are a little more youthful over there. In the middle of Panamint Valley, we see this same Yellowstone ash layer but with a caveat - instead of a mere 400 feet, in Panamint Valley that ash is more than 500 feet above the valley floor! That suggests that the valley subsidence of Panamint Valley is about 20% faster than Death Valley. The true story is more complex than that, but it's good as a reference point. Let's see what that looks like.

It's hard to see in this aerial imagery, but near the top of this steep escarpment is that same volcanic ash layer. It's a bit thicker here because this big pile of material I've outlined is an ancient delta. Panamint and Death Valleys have repeatedly hosted large lakes during cooler and wetter times. This huge delta deposit is over 1.2 million years old at the base, and about 600,000 years old at the top (above the Yellowstone ash). As the Panamint Mountains (background) rose and the valley subsided, huge amounts of eroded rock and gravel were dumped on this delta. So what you're looking at is a 1 million year-long record of the floor of Panamint Valley! How cool is that?

[vintagehomecollection]

The Veranda reflects the serenity of the pastoral setting.

Celebrity Homes II, 1981

[maxxxthewpoet]

Jesus bless us and save us from hell.

[mother-lee]

waiting

[southernsadie]

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“You sound high, but thanks for the morning grope!”

[daenystheedreamer]

ive been thinking about "there must always be a stark in winterfell" as a threat... i love the theory that the starks had some hand in the others, i LOVE the theory that the starks MADE the others in order to become the kings of winter. i think the idea of winterfell as a prison is so fun the idea that the starks MUST stay there as divine punishment for their choices. "if you leave, you will die, you will stay here forever". it's so antithetical to everything the starks and winterfell mean to the characters and i think that's fun! winterfell is so warm and loving and the castle that feels most like a true home for its inhabitants, the one LEAST like a prison. but its got that ominous crypt of corpses beneath it...

[ed13d1]

there is treasure in the hills

Laura Gilpin • Woman in a White Dress, 1917

[haveyouheardthisband]

[illustratus]

Rocca d'Amalfi by Franz Richard Unterberger

[sokkastyles]

One of the most valuable lessons that Zuko taught the gaang during their field trips was to share his skills at breaking and entering.

Lesson 1: if you need to break in to an ancient civilization, watch out for booby traps.

Lesson 2: when breaking in to a maximum security prison, leave your sky bison at home.

Lesson 3: infiltrating a highly trained military unit requires matching outfits.

The real reason Toph never got a field trip is because she doesn't need advice on how to break into places.

[dumpsterxdoll]

[chlobody]

Desert roses

[killrisma]

Please keep western NC and the rest of Southern Appalachia in your hearts. Those areas aren’t prepared for hurricanes as they almost never get hit with them. I understand that it can be frustrating to watch some rich influencer on Tiktok decide to wait out the storm in their beachfront property in Florida, but this ain’t Florida, and the folks who’s lives are being destroyed certainly ain’t rich.

Instead of sending hate towards innocent humans that weren’t able to, or didn’t think to evacuate, maybe direct your energy towards something productive like fundraising to rebuild the entire towns that were demolished.

[whereifindsanity]

Billie Gibbons & Dusty Hill (Zz Top).

[dolletteamine]

[eboneeblak]

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𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚞𝚝, 𝙹𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚒𝚜 𝙴𝚋𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚎 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚔, 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚢 𝚝𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍!

† ཐི❤︎ཋྀ †

𝙰𝚗 𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚐𝚒𝚛𝚕 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚑.

𓉸ྀི

𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚊 𝚖𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚙𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚝: ☆ 𝙵𝚒𝚕𝚖 ☆ 𝙵𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚘𝚗 ☆ 𝙻𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 ☆ 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 ☆ 𝙵𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝙰𝚛𝚝 ☆ 𝚅𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘 𝙶𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜

𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི

𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚐𝚒𝚛𝚕𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚍, 𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜, 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚐𝚢𝚗𝚘𝚒𝚛, 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚞𝚖𝚊, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚌 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚜𝚜 𝚟𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚞�� 𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚞𝚖𝚜.

† ཐི❤︎ཋྀ † † ཐི❤︎ཋྀ † † ཐི❤︎ཋྀ † † ཐི❤︎ཋྀ † † ཐི❤︎ཋྀ

𝙲𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚖 𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝, 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢, 𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚝.

𓊆ྀི❤︎𓊇ྀི

𝙸 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚜

(𝙳𝙾 𝙽𝙾𝚃 𝙶𝙴𝚃 𝙲𝚁𝙰𝚉𝚈 𝙸𝙽 𝙼𝚈 𝙳𝙼𝚂)

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☆ 𝙵𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚎𝚜:

𝟿𝟶𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚞𝚗𝚐𝚎/ 𝙰𝚕𝚝 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔, 𝙼𝚎𝚝𝚊𝚕, 𝙷𝚒𝚙 𝙷𝚘𝚙, 𝙿𝚞𝚗𝚔, 𝙰𝚕𝚝 𝙿𝚘𝚙, 𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚎 𝙶𝚊𝚣𝚎, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙱𝚕𝚞𝚎𝚜

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☆ 𝙵𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜:

𝙳𝚎𝚏𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜, 𝙽𝙸𝙽, 𝚃𝚢𝚙𝚎 𝙾 𝙽𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎, 𝙰𝚕𝚐𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚜, 𝙷𝚘𝚕𝚎

⋆♱✮♱⋆ ⋆♱✮♱⋆ ⋆♱✮♱⋆ ⋆♱✮♱⋆ ⋆♱✮♱⋆ ⋆♱✮♱⋆

☆ 𝙵𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝙵𝚒𝚕𝚖𝚜:

𝙰𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚜𝚢𝚌𝚑𝚘, 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚊𝚍𝚍𝚕𝚎𝚜, 𝙼𝚘𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝, 𝙿𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝙻𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚘𝚗 𝙵𝚒𝚛𝚎, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚡𝚘𝚛𝚌𝚒𝚜𝚝, 𝚆𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝙲𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚜, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗 𝚂𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚜, 𝙶𝚒𝚛𝚕 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚍

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☆ 𝙵𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘 𝙶𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜:

𝚂𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝙷𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝟷-𝟹, 𝚅𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚢𝚛, 𝙵𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚎, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟹, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚒𝚖𝚜, 𝚁𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝙴𝚟𝚒𝚕 𝟷-𝟹, 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙿𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚝 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚋𝚘 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙵𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝙵𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚖

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𝙵𝚞𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚝: 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑, 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚢 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑 𝚏𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚎! 𝙸 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚎!

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