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Vicky Veritas
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Born in the Anthropocene
Worked at the intersection of Geology and GIS

#Geosciences | #EarthScience | #Geology | #GIS | #Rocks | #TeamFluorite | #ScienceFiction | #Fantasy
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My final #FridayFold from December's visit to Mosaic Canyon in Death Valley NP in California. This one is pretty crazy, with at least two hinges. See if you can make any sense of it. ⚒️
An outcrop of intensely folded layered tan and gray rock. Geologist's hand for scale.
January 30, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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ferwen.bsky.social
#FossilFriday Hildegarde Howard, American pioneer in avian paleontology, known for her discoveries in the La Brea Tar Pits, among them the Rancho La Brea eagles #FeministFriday 🧪⚒️
paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2019/05/01/f...
January 30, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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lithospheric.jorgegines.com
#sandgate #geology 🧪⚒️
A soldier with an weapon, camouflage clothing. "What kind of sand are you", he says.
January 30, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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edithrojas.bsky.social
I am so humbled and forever thankful to my colleagues all over the country who have helped me with historical geology resources and so much help! We gotta be the closest net discipline out there. Special shout out to @callanbentley.bsky.social for always coming through!
January 30, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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watershedlab.bsky.social
😍😍😍😍😍😍 STUNNING displacement map of the Niscemi landslide in Italy using @planet.com superdove imagery🧪⚒️
geocron.bsky.social GeoCron @geocron.bsky.social · 18h
Couldn't help but get COSI with it.
January 30, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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geologyjohnson.bsky.social
A late #FossilFriday A close up of the attachment structures from the mid-proterozoic #fossils I showed the other day. The fossils don't just sit on each other, they have a complex and consistent interweaving and inter looping pattern. See alt text for details #Geology #Paleontology
Top: Grey Scale Electron microscope image of micro fossils that look like dark grey tagliatele that have been woven together to resemble an old fashioned carpet beater. The fossils sit of light grey clay. White pyrite and phosphate grains are attached to the fossils are specific points. Bottom: A grey scale interpretive sketch of the top image where each fossil is given a unique shade of grey. Where the the fossils are intergrown the shades of grey blend into each other. The white background represents the clay matrix. A red scale bar shows the view is about 200 microns, or 0.2 millimetres across. The fossils are 10 to 50 microns wide and hundred of microns long.
January 30, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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stressrelated.bsky.social
Tell me five classes you took in college (the geology-free edition)

Chemical Equilibrium and Analysis
Chinese Religious Thought
History of Jazz
Europe in the 20th Century
Intro to Political Science (Paul Wellstone before he was a senator)
christinatoms.bsky.social Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 13h
Tell me five classes you took in college:

Biological Process Engineering 🧪
Wetland Ecology 🌱
Soil + Water Conservation Engineering 🚜
Mozart + Beethoven 🎼
LambWatch 🐑
January 31, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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earthjay.bsky.social
#EarthquakeReport for M 5.9 #earthquake #lindol sequence offshore of #Philippines

Probably (?) along megathrust subduction zone fault that creates Cotobo trench
Felt intensity MMI5
Many 5+ earthquakes

Nearby 2024 M 7.1 earthquake
earthjay.com?p=11987

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
January 31, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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yklinger.bsky.social
First day of the field trip along the 1976 M7.5 Guatemala earthquake, Patadays 2026
January 31, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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doctorapatite.bsky.social
Tell me five classes you took in college:
- Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics

Yeah I'm just going to stop right there.

I took a class on CONTINENTAL DRIFT from a professor who did his PhD with ARTHUR FREAKIN' HOLMES.

WE DIDN'T EVEN MAKE IT TO PLATE TECTONICS

Yet surprisingly I am old.
spacewhalerider.com Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 11h
Tell me five classes you took in college:

Cold War US Foreign Policy
Four Modern Revolutions
The Cryosphere
Antarctic Marine Geology
History of 20th Century Science
niais.bsky.social Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 13h
Tell me five classes you took in college:

Music Theory
American Studies
History of Consciousness/STSS
Quantum Physics
Cosmology
January 31, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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calamitaman.bsky.social
Well, it's friday somewhere

Folded layers of turbidites from the Farma River valley. What's nice about this outcrop is that the metasandstone layers still contain nice sinsedimentary folds folded by tectonic folds. My secret dream is to bring here students just to drive them crazy
Folded layers of metasandstone and phyllite
January 31, 2026 at 9:38 AM
vickyveritas.bsky.social
An 111 year-old photo of Mt. Lassen volcanic activity reminds us that Lassen is active and will eventually erupt again. Below (comment) is a link to the history of the 1914 - 1917 eruptions that include the one below. Picture from great uncle and provided by cousin.

⚒️ 🧪 Geosciences geology 🪨
Poorly preserved photo of Mt. Lassen, which awoke from a 27,000 year dormancy on May 30th, 1914. This is likely one of the earliest series of steam explosions that finally culminated in an explosive May 15th, 1915 eruption. More at the comment below. Back of picture is captioned with “Mt Lassen” (Shasta has been crossed out, a mistake by the author) “July 17 - 1914 11:45 AM one half mile distant”
January 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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@ladyoddduck.bsky.social See Blue Jets
obialik.bsky.social Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · Dec 31
We call the very upper-atmospheric lightnings elves and sprites (which is itself great), and these events don't appear everywhere. The analysis in this study argues that elves are mostly occur along the tectonic plates' boundaries, which is slightly crazy. 🧪⚒️

Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Representation of upper-atmospheric lightning and electrical-discharge phenomena (from Wikipedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lightning_sprites.jpg)
January 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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I’m such a fan !

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December 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Twinned crystals of andalusite (chiastolite) are shown below. Chiastolite is a variety of andalusite that contains black particles of graphite arranged in geometric patterns. More at the comment.

⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
nadwgab.bsky.social Nadine, Hunter of Rocks 💎 @nadwgab.bsky.social · Nov 27
331 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Andalusite:
- An aluminosilicate mineral
- A polymorph of kyanite and sillimanite
- A common low grade metamorphic mineral
- Used in the production of high temperature ceramics
- Named after Andalusia in Spain #minerals
Twin crystals of andalusite (variety chiastolite) in a grey mica schist. The crystals are beige and look like flowers with four petals. A cut and polished slice. From Bimbowrie, South Australia. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
vickyveritas.bsky.social
Never heard of Faden quartz. You’re in for a treat! Thank you, @richardgibson.bsky.social

⚒️🧪 geology geoscience #WomenInStem
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
vickyveritas.bsky.social
Copper fans, we did it! Copper is the very FIRST Ore Cup Champion & the Ore Mineral of the Year. Great job! 🙌

Thank you, Mineral Cup team. The content has been extra excellent, & another great Cup. Kudos! 290 days until #MinCup26 !

#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
Lustrous wavy copper stripes this museum specimen of a copper pseudomorph where copper has replaced the sedimentary cross-bedding of Precambrian shale. More at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Native_copper-replaced_cross-bedded_sedimentary_rocks_%28Nonesuch_Shale,_Mesoproterozoic;_White_Pine_Mine,_Upper_Peninsula_of_Michigan,_USA%29_1_%2817110279879%29.jpg
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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#OreCup
stressrelated.bsky.social Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · Nov 10
I think it's cool how copper connects to tectonics - a failed rift in Michigan, ocean floor stranded by convergent tectonics in Cyprus - and how that tectonics connects to human use of metals.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
vickyveritas.bsky.social
Copper crystals can form beautiful leafy patterns called dendrites from the Greek word dendron meaning tree. Dendrites grow due to mineral-rich fluids moving through cracks or during rapid cooling from a melt or vapor. Vote and more👇🏼

#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
Aerial dendritic growth of elongated Copper crystals, with the dominant dodecahedron. From Ray Mines, Pinal County, Arizona. From: https://www.mindat.org/photo-55571.html
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
vickyveritas.bsky.social
Patinating copper is a thing apparently. Not for the faint of heart.
It involves ammonia, salt, water and a fumigation container.

www.instructables.com/Blue-Patina-...

#OreCup
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
vickyveritas.bsky.social
1/3 Well this is a first (for me): Native #copper replaces ancient cross-bedded sedimentary rock perfectly preserving the original cross-bedding. Copper does amazing stuff in Michigan. 🤯 More below! Pinging @richardgibson.bsky.social

#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
Lustrous wavy copper stripes this museum specimen of a copper pseudomorph where copper has replaced the original sedimentary bedding. From: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Native_copper-replaced_cross-bedded_sedimentary_rocks_%28Nonesuch_Shale,_Mesoproterozoic;_White_Pine_Mine,_Upper_Peninsula_of_Michigan,_USA%29_1_%2817110279879%29.jpg
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
vickyveritas.bsky.social
Lady Liberty’s torch has gone thru renovations over the years. Originally designed as a lighthouse, the original torch was replaced by a new #copper torch in 1986 that was covered in gold leaf to give it a glow. It is 29 feet in length and weighs 450,000 pounds, with copper that will endure. Vote👇🏼
vickyveritas.bsky.social Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · Nov 7
#Copper is the oldest metal worked by humans, & is 100% recyclable. Nearly 80% of all copper ever mined is still in use today. Historically significant examples of its use include the Statue of Liberty, which is made of copper.

Vote info 👇🏼

#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
The Statue of Liberty in Paris, France before it was transported to America. Photo taken in 1886. When the statue was originally assembled, it was copper colored.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
vickyveritas.bsky.social
This is #copper. The exquisite golden tetrahexahedral crystal glows with its own light. And the amazing bevels (look closely) and faces! Only nature could create something so beautiful. Vote for Copper Ore. It has it all. Link in ALT.

#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
See details at Mindat: https://www.mindat.org/photo-359476.html
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
vickyveritas.bsky.social
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐 Fascinating and fast :)
jraasch.bsky.social J. Raasch @jraasch.bsky.social · Nov 9
The rise and decline of Old Copper Culture tools, starting with the Midcontinent Rift System that generated the largest native #copper deposits in the world.

Was the copper just too pure? 😮

Watch and learn.

#OreCup #OreCup25

youtube.com/watch?v=lf7c...
Why Did These Ancient People Abandon Copper?
YouTube video by SciShow
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November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
vickyveritas.bsky.social
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
andalitebandit.bsky.social AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · Nov 9
Can you believe that in the 20th century, we forgot copper had antimicrobial properties?!

Copper has had our backs since the Bronze Age. I stan a reliable legend! #OreCup
mineralcup.bsky.social Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · Nov 9
#OreCup Finals:
Native #Copper is the purest form of copper ore with a deep history with humans, while slippery #Molybdenite confounded us for centuries until sharing its secrets on how it enhances all it touches

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...

Results:
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM