Vicky Veritas
@vickyveritas.bsky.social
Born in the Anthropocene
Worked at the intersection of Geology and GIS
#Geosciences | #EarthScience | #Geology | #GIS | #Rocks | #TeamFluorite | #ScienceFiction | #Fantasy
Worked at the intersection of Geology and GIS
#Geosciences | #EarthScience | #Geology | #GIS | #Rocks | #TeamFluorite | #ScienceFiction | #Fantasy
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The economic geologists are convinced flat slabs do things related to copper porphyry systems.
For example:
For example:
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction - Nature Geoscience
Laramide flat-slab subduction releases fluids into the overlying crust that mediate water-fluxed melting of precursor arc lower crust, ultimately forming porphyry copper deposits, according to a geoch...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The economic geologists are convinced flat slabs do things related to copper porphyry systems.
For example:
For example:
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Mw=7.6, NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN (Depth: 45 km), 2025/12/08 14:15:11 UTC - Full details here: http://geoscope.ipgp.fr/scripts/seismes/fiche.php?seis=us6000rtdt
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Mw=7.6, NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN (Depth: 45 km), 2025/12/08 14:15:11 UTC - Full details here: http://geoscope.ipgp.fr/scripts/seismes/fiche.php?seis=us6000rtdt
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New artwork just dropped at Casa del Jackson 🤩
December 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
New artwork just dropped at Casa del Jackson 🤩
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#MineralMonday Calcite and fluorite, Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Illinois USA. Approx 6 cm wide, collected in 1969. ⚒️ #geology . No MAGA! Science = Resistance! #standupforscience
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#MineralMonday Calcite and fluorite, Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Illinois USA. Approx 6 cm wide, collected in 1969. ⚒️ #geology . No MAGA! Science = Resistance! #standupforscience
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To see earthquake statistics for California visit our dashboard at cadoc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboa...
ArcGIS Dashboards
ArcGIS Dashboards
cadoc.maps.arcgis.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
To see earthquake statistics for California visit our dashboard at cadoc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboa...
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We live next door to a star!
Just now: M2.4 + M2 solar flares from AR 4299 and AR 4294, respectively. There is a CME associated with the former that looks to have a substantial Earth-directed component! Great news for aurora chasers to mark a potentially THIRD Earth-directed CME hitting this week.
December 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
We live next door to a star!
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Almost forgot my world soils day photo. Lots of surprising and beautiful things about this soil. Root River basin, southeastern Minnesota.
December 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Almost forgot my world soils day photo. Lots of surprising and beautiful things about this soil. Root River basin, southeastern Minnesota.
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Fog is always so pretty when you're above it.
Mt Diablo North, ContraCosta County, CA
🗺37.8926, -121.8992 🧭114° ⛰3419 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2157
🗺37.8926, -121.8992 🧭114° ⛰3419 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2157
December 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Fog is always so pretty when you're above it.
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These glass baubles have lived a long life. Along the way they've lost friends and family to butterfingers, poor hook design l, bouncy wires and ultimately, gravity, but they've kept reflecting and hanging and bringing joy to those who walk under them each Xmas.
#PeacefulMoment 🎄
#PeacefulMoment 🎄
December 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
These glass baubles have lived a long life. Along the way they've lost friends and family to butterfingers, poor hook design l, bouncy wires and ultimately, gravity, but they've kept reflecting and hanging and bringing joy to those who walk under them each Xmas.
#PeacefulMoment 🎄
#PeacefulMoment 🎄
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San Francisco is always full of amazing views.
December 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
San Francisco is always full of amazing views.
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Look carefully and you can see the trail passes behind the falls. This is the case for several falls in the park, due to interbeds of sediment between thick flows of Columbia River Basalt. ⚒️
You know what time it is!
That's right, #WaterfallWednesday!
Here we have a well loved classic from #Oregon, in #SilverFallsStatePark. South Falls! It stands 177 feet tall (53m)! Here it's at a high flow in mid winter. Have you been to see it?
#ECK #Waterfall #📷 #Nature #scape
That's right, #WaterfallWednesday!
Here we have a well loved classic from #Oregon, in #SilverFallsStatePark. South Falls! It stands 177 feet tall (53m)! Here it's at a high flow in mid winter. Have you been to see it?
#ECK #Waterfall #📷 #Nature #scape
December 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Look carefully and you can see the trail passes behind the falls. This is the case for several falls in the park, due to interbeds of sediment between thick flows of Columbia River Basalt. ⚒️
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More on the Connector Fault:
It is a postulated fault that runs (under ice fields and thus not easily seen) between the Totschunda fault to the north and the Fairweather fault to the south. GPS shows evidence of right-lateral shear across that area. See Fig. 6 and 11: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A Block Model of Present‐Day Kinematics of Alaska and Western Canada
The first regionally comprehensive tectonic block model for Alaska and western Canada constrained by GPS data is presented
Significant motion relative to North America is observed in every part of ...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
More on the Connector Fault:
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#EarthquakeReport for M 7.0 #Earthquake in #Alaska #USA #Yukon #Canada
right-lateral strike-slip earthquake along the transition between the Queen-Charlotte Fairweather and Totschunda faults
near northern boundary of Yakutat Terrane
report forthcoming
right-lateral strike-slip earthquake along the transition between the Queen-Charlotte Fairweather and Totschunda faults
near northern boundary of Yakutat Terrane
report forthcoming
December 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
#EarthquakeReport for M 7.0 #Earthquake in #Alaska #USA #Yukon #Canada
right-lateral strike-slip earthquake along the transition between the Queen-Charlotte Fairweather and Totschunda faults
near northern boundary of Yakutat Terrane
report forthcoming
right-lateral strike-slip earthquake along the transition between the Queen-Charlotte Fairweather and Totschunda faults
near northern boundary of Yakutat Terrane
report forthcoming
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It’s concert season in Melbourne. Last weekend Lady Gaga was rocking Marvel Stadium hard enough to shake our office seismometer 5.6km (3.5mi) away. Here’s the set list order plotted next to frequency and ground motion over time.
December 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
It’s concert season in Melbourne. Last weekend Lady Gaga was rocking Marvel Stadium hard enough to shake our office seismometer 5.6km (3.5mi) away. Here’s the set list order plotted next to frequency and ground motion over time.
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Big week for webcams getting wiped out by volcanoes.
*This* is what the people of Pompeii, and Herculaneum, and many other hapless souls saw—this is what a pyroclastic density current looks coming RIGHT at you.
Filmed from a CCTV camera during the Mount Semeru eruption on Java, Indonesia on 4 December 2022.
Video credit: PT United Tractors Tbk
Filmed from a CCTV camera during the Mount Semeru eruption on Java, Indonesia on 4 December 2022.
Video credit: PT United Tractors Tbk
December 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Big week for webcams getting wiped out by volcanoes.
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What led to the demise of the bustling Greek village of Philippi? A new #SRL paper considers how a combination of an earthquake and its hydrogeologic effects caused the collapse. ⚒️
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
December 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
What led to the demise of the bustling Greek village of Philippi? A new #SRL paper considers how a combination of an earthquake and its hydrogeologic effects caused the collapse. ⚒️
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
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Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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#EarthquakeReport for M 7.0 #Earthquake in #Yukon #Alaska
Oblique right-lateral (?) strike-slip earthquake mechanism
Associated with Fairweather fault
17 July '14 M6.0 similar mechanism
See 2017 report for tectonic setting earthjay.com?p=5345
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Oblique right-lateral (?) strike-slip earthquake mechanism
Associated with Fairweather fault
17 July '14 M6.0 similar mechanism
See 2017 report for tectonic setting earthjay.com?p=5345
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
December 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#EarthquakeReport for M 7.0 #Earthquake in #Yukon #Alaska
Oblique right-lateral (?) strike-slip earthquake mechanism
Associated with Fairweather fault
17 July '14 M6.0 similar mechanism
See 2017 report for tectonic setting earthjay.com?p=5345
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Oblique right-lateral (?) strike-slip earthquake mechanism
Associated with Fairweather fault
17 July '14 M6.0 similar mechanism
See 2017 report for tectonic setting earthjay.com?p=5345
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Geophones are kind of nice to consider for planetary applications because they’re supernrugged, since they’re basically just a magnet on a spring in a coil. Simple is good when it gets shaken to hell on launch.
December 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Geophones are kind of nice to consider for planetary applications because they’re supernrugged, since they’re basically just a magnet on a spring in a coil. Simple is good when it gets shaken to hell on launch.
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Lawn sprinkler mode for Halemaʻumaʻu ⚒️
What the ACTUAL FUCK, Kīlauea?! Go check it out yourself in the livestream right now. 👇 ⚒️🧪 #volcano
www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...
www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...
December 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Lawn sprinkler mode for Halemaʻumaʻu ⚒️
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Did you make sure to keep the camera away from the volcano like we discussed?
Yeah, about that…
Yeah, about that…
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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M6.9 Yakutat #earthquake is located very close to the border of the USA and Canada. Preliminary results from GFZ Potsdam indicate relatively high non double couple component with oblique mechanism. ⚒️🧪
December 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
M6.9 Yakutat #earthquake is located very close to the border of the USA and Canada. Preliminary results from GFZ Potsdam indicate relatively high non double couple component with oblique mechanism. ⚒️🧪
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Silurian felsic volcaniclastics, or if you prefer nice sea-worn bedrock, eastern Tasmania. Some of the most colourful lichen I've ever seen - this stuff is vivid. Can see it along much of NE Tasmania above high tide notably on the aptly-named Bay of Fires that we didn't get to but this will do ⚒️🧪
December 6, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Silurian felsic volcaniclastics, or if you prefer nice sea-worn bedrock, eastern Tasmania. Some of the most colourful lichen I've ever seen - this stuff is vivid. Can see it along much of NE Tasmania above high tide notably on the aptly-named Bay of Fires that we didn't get to but this will do ⚒️🧪
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340 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Alunogen:
- A hydrated sulphate mineral
- Forms via the reaction of sulphates from decomposing sulphide minerals and aluminium-bearing minerals in shales and slates
- Its name comes from the Latin word "alum" and the Greek word "γεννώ/genno" (to create) #mineral
Alunogen:
- A hydrated sulphate mineral
- Forms via the reaction of sulphates from decomposing sulphide minerals and aluminium-bearing minerals in shales and slates
- Its name comes from the Latin word "alum" and the Greek word "γεννώ/genno" (to create) #mineral
December 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
340 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Alunogen:
- A hydrated sulphate mineral
- Forms via the reaction of sulphates from decomposing sulphide minerals and aluminium-bearing minerals in shales and slates
- Its name comes from the Latin word "alum" and the Greek word "γεννώ/genno" (to create) #mineral
Alunogen:
- A hydrated sulphate mineral
- Forms via the reaction of sulphates from decomposing sulphide minerals and aluminium-bearing minerals in shales and slates
- Its name comes from the Latin word "alum" and the Greek word "γεννώ/genno" (to create) #mineral