Men would rather cause the world's largest recorded subaerial landslide than go to therapy.
May 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Men would rather cause the world's largest recorded subaerial landslide than go to therapy.
#CDFriday post work sounds from Lucy Railton and Kit Downes - Subaerial
lucyrailton.bandcamp.com/album/subaer...
lucyrailton.bandcamp.com/album/subaer...
April 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#CDFriday post work sounds from Lucy Railton and Kit Downes - Subaerial
lucyrailton.bandcamp.com/album/subaer...
lucyrailton.bandcamp.com/album/subaer...
Pumice raft (?) generation and onset of subaerial eruption plume in the Central Bismarck Sea captured by #Himawari-9 on May 8-9. @cira-csu.bsky.social
May 12, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Pumice raft (?) generation and onset of subaerial eruption plume in the Central Bismarck Sea captured by #Himawari-9 on May 8-9. @cira-csu.bsky.social
y'all love moraines?? 🥰
Check this out!
Seabed landforms in Loch Ainort could be said ‘frozen in time’... unmodified and free from deleterious effects of subaerial weathering, terrestrial erosion, periglacial processes and human disturbance over last ~12 ka'
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Check this out!
Seabed landforms in Loch Ainort could be said ‘frozen in time’... unmodified and free from deleterious effects of subaerial weathering, terrestrial erosion, periglacial processes and human disturbance over last ~12 ka'
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
March 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
y'all love moraines?? 🥰
Check this out!
Seabed landforms in Loch Ainort could be said ‘frozen in time’... unmodified and free from deleterious effects of subaerial weathering, terrestrial erosion, periglacial processes and human disturbance over last ~12 ka'
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Check this out!
Seabed landforms in Loch Ainort could be said ‘frozen in time’... unmodified and free from deleterious effects of subaerial weathering, terrestrial erosion, periglacial processes and human disturbance over last ~12 ka'
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Nice strike-slip motion under the northern-most subaerial volcano on Earth: Beerenberg. It’s also a not-so-common basaltic stratovolcano. Oregon State’s Volcanoworld site has good info about the complex tectonic setting here:
volcano.oregonstate.edu/beerenberg
volcano.oregonstate.edu/beerenberg
March 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Nice strike-slip motion under the northern-most subaerial volcano on Earth: Beerenberg. It’s also a not-so-common basaltic stratovolcano. Oregon State’s Volcanoworld site has good info about the complex tectonic setting here:
volcano.oregonstate.edu/beerenberg
volcano.oregonstate.edu/beerenberg
More California critters:
March 18, 2026 at 11:08 AM
More California critters:
This is fundamental for geology, and terrestrial habitability. Climate caused cratons:
"Generation of sedimentary rocks enriched in heat-producing elements...resolves a long-standing question of why many cratons were stabilized in the Neoarchaean period"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology
"Generation of sedimentary rocks enriched in heat-producing elements...resolves a long-standing question of why many cratons were stabilized in the Neoarchaean period"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology
Subaerial weathering drove stabilization of continents - Nature
The geological histories of Archaean regions indicate that stabilization of the Earth’s continents and the formation of cratons was driven by continental emergence and subaerial weathering.
www.nature.com
May 12, 2024 at 10:00 PM
This is fundamental for geology, and terrestrial habitability. Climate caused cratons:
"Generation of sedimentary rocks enriched in heat-producing elements...resolves a long-standing question of why many cratons were stabilized in the Neoarchaean period"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology
"Generation of sedimentary rocks enriched in heat-producing elements...resolves a long-standing question of why many cratons were stabilized in the Neoarchaean period"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology
A Glimpse Into Darkness: Diversity Of Culturable Cyanobacteria, Green Algae And Fungi From Subaerial Cave Biofilms
astrobiology.com/2026/01/a-gl... #astrobiology #AAS247 #extremophile #NASA
astrobiology.com/2026/01/a-gl... #astrobiology #AAS247 #extremophile #NASA
A Glimpse Into Darkness: Diversity Of Culturable Cyanobacteria, Green Algae And Fungi From Subaerial Cave Biofilms - Astrobiology
Caves and hypogean environments provide stable microclimates characterized by uniform temperatures, constant humidity, and low light levels.
astrobiology.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:37 PM
A Glimpse Into Darkness: Diversity Of Culturable Cyanobacteria, Green Algae And Fungi From Subaerial Cave Biofilms
astrobiology.com/2026/01/a-gl... #astrobiology #AAS247 #extremophile #NASA
astrobiology.com/2026/01/a-gl... #astrobiology #AAS247 #extremophile #NASA
#WeekendReading: Yan et al. on the bad, terrible, not-good-at-all future projections for reef dissolution into the rest of the 21st century.
(Have I mentioned it's not looking good?) 🧪🌊
Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026GL125720
(Have I mentioned it's not looking good?) 🧪🌊
Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026GL125720
September 25, 2026 at 2:17 AM
#WeekendReading: Yan et al. on the bad, terrible, not-good-at-all future projections for reef dissolution into the rest of the 21st century.
(Have I mentioned it's not looking good?) 🧪🌊
Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026GL125720
(Have I mentioned it's not looking good?) 🧪🌊
Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026GL125720
Can't resist a bit more Glencoe, classic view.
Lower slopes consist of a series of early basaltic andesite sills intruded into basin sediments.
Prominent buttresses above formed from subaerial rhyolitic flows.
Steep linear features show where Etive dykes have been preferentially eroded.
Lower slopes consist of a series of early basaltic andesite sills intruded into basin sediments.
Prominent buttresses above formed from subaerial rhyolitic flows.
Steep linear features show where Etive dykes have been preferentially eroded.
April 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Can't resist a bit more Glencoe, classic view.
Lower slopes consist of a series of early basaltic andesite sills intruded into basin sediments.
Prominent buttresses above formed from subaerial rhyolitic flows.
Steep linear features show where Etive dykes have been preferentially eroded.
Lower slopes consist of a series of early basaltic andesite sills intruded into basin sediments.
Prominent buttresses above formed from subaerial rhyolitic flows.
Steep linear features show where Etive dykes have been preferentially eroded.
Interesting possibility here: 2.7 to 2.5 billion years ago might have been when substantial subareal erosion began.
June 17, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Interesting possibility here: 2.7 to 2.5 billion years ago might have been when substantial subareal erosion began.
#Atacamite crystallizes around seafloor vents, in arid environments, and even sublimates around subaerial volcanic vents. It is also a biomineral 🤩, a natural composite that forms bloodworm jaws.
🧪⚒️ #MinCup24
🧪⚒️ #MinCup24
September 7, 2024 at 4:01 PM
#Atacamite crystallizes around seafloor vents, in arid environments, and even sublimates around subaerial volcanic vents. It is also a biomineral 🤩, a natural composite that forms bloodworm jaws.
🧪⚒️ #MinCup24
🧪⚒️ #MinCup24
A grand hike of the soon-to-be-subaerial landmasses of the last glacial maximum would be amazing too.
October 22, 2024 at 8:10 PM
A grand hike of the soon-to-be-subaerial landmasses of the last glacial maximum would be amazing too.
Check out this awesome new paper by @nemiwalding.bsky.social on direct submersible observations of volcanic rocks on the Tonga trench seafloor!
🧪🌍⚒️👩🔬🪨🌋
🧪🌍⚒️👩🔬🪨🌋
Deep seafloor exposures of subaerial volcanic lithofacies on the Tonga trench slope: Ground-truthing forearc structure
Volcanic sequences exposed on the Tonga forearc and trench slope were investigated using a submersible to document seafloor outcrops and characterise …
www.sciencedirect.com
March 25, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Check out this awesome new paper by @nemiwalding.bsky.social on direct submersible observations of volcanic rocks on the Tonga trench seafloor!
🧪🌍⚒️👩🔬🪨🌋
🧪🌍⚒️👩🔬🪨🌋
Identifying signatures of the earliest benthic bulldozers in emergent subaerial conditions during the colonization of land by animals 🧪⚒️ #ichnology
Zekun Wang, Neil S. Davies, Alexander G. Liu, Nicholas J. Minter, Imran A. Rahman
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Zekun Wang, Neil S. Davies, Alexander G. Liu, Nicholas J. Minter, Imran A. Rahman
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Identifying signatures of the earliest benthic bulldozers in emergent subaerial conditions during the colonization of land by animals | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The colonization of land by animals was a milestone in the history of life. Approximately
100 million years before full terrestrialization, early animals sporadically traversed
emergent subaerial subs...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 10, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Identifying signatures of the earliest benthic bulldozers in emergent subaerial conditions during the colonization of land by animals 🧪⚒️ #ichnology
Zekun Wang, Neil S. Davies, Alexander G. Liu, Nicholas J. Minter, Imran A. Rahman
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Zekun Wang, Neil S. Davies, Alexander G. Liu, Nicholas J. Minter, Imran A. Rahman
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Martian subaerial sand dunes in abundance - many of them remarkably similar to terrestrial examples. Here's some barchan dunes for comparison - to accompany a post I wrote a few years back. ⚒️🧪🔭 #Geosciences
www.geological-digressions.com/sand-dunes-b...
www.geological-digressions.com/sand-dunes-b...
March 25, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Martian subaerial sand dunes in abundance - many of them remarkably similar to terrestrial examples. Here's some barchan dunes for comparison - to accompany a post I wrote a few years back. ⚒️🧪🔭 #Geosciences
www.geological-digressions.com/sand-dunes-b...
www.geological-digressions.com/sand-dunes-b...
#Sentinel2 images on June 4 show the #TitanRidge eruption site in detail. The subaerial plume is likely being generated as blocks of inflated magma float up from a seafloor vent & explode or interact with seawater at the surface. Images also show pumice enveloping islands in the N. #BismarckSea.
June 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM
#Sentinel2 images on June 4 show the #TitanRidge eruption site in detail. The subaerial plume is likely being generated as blocks of inflated magma float up from a seafloor vent & explode or interact with seawater at the surface. Images also show pumice enveloping islands in the N. #BismarckSea.
This paper on the morphology of the Indus Fan shows nicely that meandering channels exist in the deep sea as well and they are as beautiful as the subaerial ones agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
June 30, 2026 at 2:24 PM
This paper on the morphology of the Indus Fan shows nicely that meandering channels exist in the deep sea as well and they are as beautiful as the subaerial ones agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
We completed two submersible dives near Bogoslof Island. This target area was of geologic and natural hazard interest, but we also got some coral samples #ColdCoralsWithChris 🌊🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Geology and eruptive history of Bogoslof volcano - Bulletin of Volcanology
Bogoslof volcano is a shallow submarine/subaerial volcano in the southern Bering Sea about 100 km west of the community of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The subaerial parts of the volcano consist of two small...
link.springer.com
June 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We completed two submersible dives near Bogoslof Island. This target area was of geologic and natural hazard interest, but we also got some coral samples #ColdCoralsWithChris 🌊🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Identifying signatures of the earliest benthic bulldozers in emergent subaerial conditions during the colonization of land by animals ⚒️🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Identifying signatures of the earliest benthic bulldozers in emergent subaerial conditions during the colonization of land by animals | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The colonization of land by animals was a milestone in the history of life. Approximately 100 million years before full terrestrialization, early animals sporadically traversed emergent subaerial substrates, leaving behind trace fossils recording their ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 7, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Identifying signatures of the earliest benthic bulldozers in emergent subaerial conditions during the colonization of land by animals ⚒️🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
This is a rare example of the mineral brickite, named after Johann Brickius a late 17th Century minerologist & architect.
We still don't know how it gets deposited, but some hypothesize it involves a biogeochemical process where human trash interacts with near-surface or even subaerial weathering.
We still don't know how it gets deposited, but some hypothesize it involves a biogeochemical process where human trash interacts with near-surface or even subaerial weathering.
My granddad found this rock 50 years ago and said it was a meteorite. Is it?
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is a rare example of the mineral brickite, named after Johann Brickius a late 17th Century minerologist & architect.
We still don't know how it gets deposited, but some hypothesize it involves a biogeochemical process where human trash interacts with near-surface or even subaerial weathering.
We still don't know how it gets deposited, but some hypothesize it involves a biogeochemical process where human trash interacts with near-surface or even subaerial weathering.
Do submarine lava flows have different thermal properties to subaerial lava flows??
The latest study to complement our other recent paper on physical properties. These samples got the FULL works!
The latest study to complement our other recent paper on physical properties. These samples got the FULL works!
New paper in Volcanica looks at the thermal properties of rhyolites from Havre volcano, a submarine volcano in the Kermadec arc (Pacific Ocean)! 🌋
With Rebecca Carey, @smitchellscience.bsky.social, and @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social
It's diamond open access 👇
doi.org/10.30909/vol...
With Rebecca Carey, @smitchellscience.bsky.social, and @fabianwadsworth.bsky.social
It's diamond open access 👇
doi.org/10.30909/vol...
June 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Do submarine lava flows have different thermal properties to subaerial lava flows??
The latest study to complement our other recent paper on physical properties. These samples got the FULL works!
The latest study to complement our other recent paper on physical properties. These samples got the FULL works!
And we hope you paid homage to EB Bailey, C.T.Clough & H.B. Maufe who, 120 years ago, mapped the Gelocoe geology & recognised as a downfaulted block within an oval ring fault representing a collapsed caldera - the first detailed analysis of an eroded subaerial caldera. zenodo.org/records/2346...
June 27, 2026 at 10:02 PM
And we hope you paid homage to EB Bailey, C.T.Clough & H.B. Maufe who, 120 years ago, mapped the Gelocoe geology & recognised as a downfaulted block within an oval ring fault representing a collapsed caldera - the first detailed analysis of an eroded subaerial caldera. zenodo.org/records/2346...
Empirical values for basalt weathering (subaerial) seem to be pretty broad....
February 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Empirical values for basalt weathering (subaerial) seem to be pretty broad....