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Gary Lewis
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Geologist, trip leader, educator, Airtable expert and more.
Lava pours into the ocean creating a plume of acidic steam. A tour boat is way too close!
May 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Visiting the vent of the 1959 eruption in Kīlauea Iki, Hawaii. #geology #geoetc #volcano #eruption #kilauea #hawaii
April 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The Devils Coachhouse, New South Wales Australia, is part of the oldest cave system on Earth. #geology #caves #geoetc #jenolan
April 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The eroded volcanic plugs of the Glasshouse Mountains, Queensland Australia. Evidence of Australias slow passage over a mantle hotspot. #geology #geoetc #volcano #queensland
April 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The green olivine sand of Hawaii! #hawaii #geology #geoetc #olivine #greensand #minerals
April 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Once horizontal, these layers of sandstones and shale formed from turbidity flows on an ancient sea floor that sat between North America and a small plate called Avalonia. When the plates collided these layers were squashed up and exposed. #geology #geoetc #platetectonics #maine
April 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Celebrating Earth Day (with thanks to AGI)
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Lava flowed right through this chainmail fence in Hawaii in 2016. #geology #lava #volcano #geoetc #hawaii
April 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Dinosaurs display in the American Museum of Natural History , New York. Full of little future paleontologists. #geology #dinosaurs #fossils #newyorkcity #geoetc
April 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
A human trace fossil. A footprint in volcanic ash (1790 eruption of Kilauea, Hawaii. #fossil #human #footprint #hawaii #geology #geoetc
April 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Fossils in the sidewalks in Amsterdam. #fossils #geology #geoetc #amsterdam
April 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This beauty was in the floor of a building in Boston. So you can do paleontology even in a big city! #fossil #boston #geology #geoetc
April 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Lava flowed into this graveyard in Hawaii, forever entombing the occupants under layers of basalt. #geology #geoetc #hawaii #lava #graves
April 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
An amazing experience watching the “firehouse” of lava pouring into the ocean on Hawaii a few years ago. #geoetc #geology #lava #hawIi #kilauea
April 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A chunk of country rock (dark) got caught up in this granite (light) forming this great xenolith in Maine. #granite #xenolith #geology #geoetc #maine
April 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The decay of marble statues in cities around the world is linked to air pollution causing rain to become acidic. This chemical weathering can be seen in this saint in Amsterdam. #geology #geoetc #weathering #pollution #acidrain
April 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Trying to outrun a lava flow? Teachers having fun in Hawaii on a GEOetc.com field adventure.
April 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The twists and turns of a recent pahoehoe lava flow on Mauna Loa Hawaii. It’s unworldly. #geology #geoetc #hawaii #volcano #lava #pahoehoe
April 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Morning on the Earths largest active volcano Mauna Loa, looking across the saddle to Hawaiis tallest volcano, Mauna Kea. #geology #volcano #geoetc #hawaii
April 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Magmatic gases escape from a shallow magma chamber depositing these sulfur crystals on Kilauea, Hawaii. #geology #geoetc #hawaii #volcano #crystals #sulfur
April 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A recent rock fall into the ocean mad the waters run red at Sidmouth UK. #geology #geoetc #erosion
April 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Climbing the granite tors on Dartmoor National Park, UK. #geology #geoetc #granite #tor
April 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A beautiful old mine head in Cornwall. #geology #mine #england #cornwall #geoetc
April 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Cut granite slabs awaiting placement in a new structure. The skill of splitting straight slabs is great, curved is amazing! #geology #geoetc #granite #dimensionstone
April 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Water spouts out of the Little Blowhole near Kiama on the NSW Australia south coast. A feature within a basalt (latite) flow, you see the cooling columns on the rock platform. #geology #geoetc #kiama #blowhole #basalt #columns
April 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM