#geological map

[noosphe-re]

Eastern Indonesia Bouguer gravity classification

[52booksproject]

Book 44: The Map That Changed the World

RNG put me in the 500s, and I kinda forgot to go deeper so I ended up with general science books. There were a ton of all time greats, but I ended up with Simon Winchester's The Map That Changed the World.

This book was about William Smith (1769-1839) a groundbreaking geologist who started out as a surveyor/coal mine manager/canal builder/land drainer. He made the first large-scale geological map in existence. Even after listening to the book twice I'm not entirely sure what the rock he mapped out was, I mean, there are lots of layers of rocks under places, right? I guess it was the type of rock just under the surface of the ground? Anyway, it is considered by many to have birthed the science of geology and kickstarted investigations into the age of the Earth, etc.

William Smith himself had a hard life, his blacksmith father died when he was a child and his mother abandoned him to his cheapskate uncle who Smith had to borrow against his inheritance to get basic reference materials that would further his career as a surveyor. Eventually he ended up in debtors prison after some speculation went wrong and spending on making his extensive geological map. He was prevented from joining the prominent Geological Society by a rival who also made a rival map that stole from Smith's and cut into his sales which landed him in the debtor's prison (Wikipedia disputes this as the rival map came out after Smith landed in jail, but this book shows how anticipation of the rival map cut into his sales, not just when the map finally came out.) Smith's map was championed by our old friend Joseph Banks of the ever-present-in-these-books Royal Society.

Should you read this book: Sure, it's interesting and has lots of good facts about the life of William Smith and life and science in the 1700s-1800s. The author is a bit British, throwing around names like Boswell as if we all know him offhand here in America (I know him, just not offhand).

ART PROJECT: It was kind of impossible to not do the map, and I thought I'd laser burn it then hand color it, but it turns out I don't have the patience to hand color it like William Smith did. So here it is laser burned anyway.

[kanadia]

the geological society of artists

[mapsontheweb]

Geological map of the United States done in 1980

[lindahall]

Charles Lyell – Scientist of the Day

Charles Lyell, a Scottish geologist, was born Nov 14, 1797. 

read more...

[zuppizup]

Geology you say. I'm listening...........

Response to this post, I can only assume. 😏

Me, writing a ~200k fic where Callum makes a geological map of the magical rocks in the Pentarchy and also maybe Rayllum people bang?

It's more likely than you'd think...

[iamthepulta]

Caving went great! It was so much fun to rappel down and immediately get a glimpse of fantastic (if often broken) features. The rest of the cave was more fault-based and maze-like. Most of our time was spent moving diagonally on fault scarp clay (slipperiest shit I have EVER been on) and rappelling out (possibly the hardest climb up a fault scarp I have ever made lol).

Bottom left pic was taken three inches away on my belly in the entrance crawlspace. I was so happy to see little active formations so close.

[sidereon-spaceace]

Oh lord, I'm about to get launched full force back into a special interest, aren't I

[whimsicaltwine]

gahhhh argh I'm a history student for a reason man, I'm working ahead and reading up on pre modern city structure and it's so much more interesting and easy to understand,,,,, the author is giving me new databases to explore,,,,,, ohhhhh my god I cannot wait to be done with the geography

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

the hazard of being a night owl during nano is that Calendar Days and Writing Days aren't actually perfect equivalents, so i end up with asinine timekeeping like "november 18, technically," and "november 18, actually," scribbled in my margins to keep track of nighttime vs daytime writing

[grassam]

American geology

[theknitpotato]

One fun fact about Grand Teton National Park is that it's home to some of the youngest mountains in North America, with the Teton Range being only around 9 million years old, which is relatively young in geological terms!

[kanadia]

🏔🌋🌈✨ test artwork for my concept album based on geology, Typical Forever. Discover more about it here.

coming 2024!

[yisanged]

scioly states finished..... very long day. our team placed 7th overall out of 40 high schools in the entire state. only top 6 place and get trophies. our school has come in 7th or otherwise top ten not placing every year for the past like decade LOL. except it's not as LOL as it really should be because WE DID SO GOOD THIS YEAR and literally two of our consistently best performing events got trialed meaning the scores for those events didn't count towards our overall because the test proctors made stupid mistakes during the set up. really sad :( especially because they're two events two of our most dedicated seniors work really hard for and this was their last year of scioly ever and we didn't get a trophy because the people running the events messed up. lowkey we also kind of ate shit in a few events like 30th and 25th place and a couple mid ones but otherwise we did good like top 20 and a considerable amount of placing so it's totally possible we could've gotten a trophy if those two events had just gone normally. sad for our seniors. also today was literally our schools prom..... so all the seniors and some juniors literally changed into their suits and dresses after they finished their events and just left to go to prom. crazy. but it's ok. funsies. I like science olympiad. I'm dedicating myself to fossils over the summer I've decided. plus geo it's fun. scioly is fun

[mapsontheweb]

Geological era of rocks in the British Isles.