American geology

Geological map of Kenya, 1980.

i love how hgsn has just become Yoshiki’s independent research project with the occasional ghost roadblock

Johann von Charpentier – Scientist of the Day

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Charpentier, a German geologist and mining engineer, died July 27, 1805, at the age of 67; he was born in Dresden in 1738.

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Eastern Indonesia Bouguer gravity classification

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

stained glass window that's a geologic map

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.

This was one of our first maps and we had to heavily restore it in order to make it.

Now it looks like a modern geological map, instead it is from 1880 and we think it deserves to be published!🙃

Original map info: Carta geologica dell'Isola d'Elba, B. Lotti, P. Fossen, E. Mattirolo, G. Meneghini, 1885.

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Not me learning about tectonic plates because I wanted to play a solo RPG.

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Geologic Relief Map State Of Colorado 1979

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Thinking of a mob boss Kitsune women in her 80,000’s-

the geological society of artists

havent rimposted on here in a while. here's the base of my current save

i have ideology+biotech dlcs and im playing as a custom* race of cave dwellers whose ideology resolves around being cave dwellers. lights bad dark good eclipse is perfect their diet is entirely cave grown fungus with occasional meat from a raider** and everyone who isnt a raxdactyl and/or a caveist is fucking miserable here

Like you may already know, some great Bloodborne maps have been made. They're really cool but I do wonder what's the orientation in them (north, sud, west, east) because I think I need it for a few things.

I can't play the game to go check but I do remember where the moon was in some areas and where it moves (in central Yharnam). I obtain the following . But I'm sure if I'm accurate or not. What do you think ?