Cody Mason
@cosynomad.bsky.social
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He/him - Associate Professor of Sedimentary Geology ⛰️ - Living in West Georgia, USA - Playing 🛹s on days off - codycmason.com
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Yep, lots of rounded clasts! I’ve never seen the insides of a drumlin, neat photos.
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Oh cool, that’s surprising, though I’m not around much till these days. Maybe some outwash processes or multi cycle clasts, or just ice transport?
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Wandering the woods in Manchester VT, and pondering these well-rounded clasts. I’m way above the modern floodplain, and these clasts must be fluvial gravels, not glacial till(?). I wonder how the pre-glacial landscape would have looked? Fun times in fall foliage.
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Some goodies from a trip to the HMNH.
Tiktaalik fossil and derpy reconstruction Enormous gypsum crystals from Mexico Bad taxidermied cat Metamorphic rock from the Jack Hills, Australia, source of Earths oldest minerals, zircons ~4.4 billion years old.
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Update on my electrification project:
New heat pump installed! So looking forward to burning less natural gas this winter.
A Bosch heat pump outdoor unit.
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Came across another picture of my slightly younger self doing fieldwork, somewhere Wild and Scenic, New Mexico. Ca. 2012
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A favorite picture of mine, taken by none other than @clasticdetritus.bsky.social
in Panamint Valley, CA, ca. 2014ish ⚒️
Me standing in the foreground of a cliff exposing Plio-Pleistocene-aged alluvium displaying large-scale (approx. 10-12 meter) cross-bed sets.
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Looking at sands from the subsurface coastal plain, and you just never know what you’ll see.
In related news, I just learned the term “protoconch” or an embryonic snail shell. 🐚
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Spiral shaped fossil, potentially an infilling of a small gastropod mollusk shell.
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Hallelujah - it’s finally payday after a very long summer.
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Scuppernongs.

That’s the skeet.
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If anyone is interested in going to grad school in paleo, I run a workshop series that will walk you through the process. It’s through the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and it’s free! DM me if interested.
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Hey Cam, is this location accessible to others? Would you mind sharing the location with me?
cosynomad.bsky.social
I’m 45 now and recently rekindled a life-long passion for skateboarding. Most Saturday mornings I meet up with other middle aged skaters, some academics, and have some fun while getting exercise. One thing that constantly surprises me is how much things hurt when you’re old.
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Marcretions ™️
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Cemented granules/pebbles or concretion/precipitate? 🤔
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Let the conjecture commence
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Hey, wanna see a weird Mars rock?

Here you go
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My new hero is Detective Cupp.
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NOAA has released their official animation of the propagation of this week's tsunami. It took almost exactly one day to reach Antarctica and was reported at 0.6 feet high.
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Stupendously dumb.
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👀 during earthquakes people are often injured or killed due to falling debris as they exit buildings
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Kamchatka, 8.8 magnitude earthquake
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Aww, some unlucky Archean microbe left their car keys