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noosphe-re · 1 year

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Eastern Indonesia Bouguer gravity classification

#geophysics #physics #Bouguer anomaly #geodesy #science #gravity #Earth #nature #Indonesia #geological map #maps

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52booksproject · 1 year

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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.

#william smith #joseph banks #royal society #geology #geological map #52books #52booksproject #dewey decimal system #rng

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kanadia · 9 months

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the geological society of artists

#geography #geology #geologist #geological map #artists manifesto #artist #art #collage #gouache #medieval

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jaymiejess · 21 days

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#Moon #map #Moon map #geological map

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mapsontheweb · 2 months

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Geological map of Kenya, 1980.

#maps #kenya #geological maps #1980

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lindahall · 7 days

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William Phillips – Scientist of the Day

William Phillips, an English geologist, printer, and publisher, was born May 10, 1775, in London.

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honorthysalad · 5 months

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

#Our next enemy will be Yoshiki’s pencil breaking while he’s in the middle of a sentence!#hikaru ga shinda natsu #the summer hikaru died #hgsn #my hgsn shit #I’ll need about 5 maps of varying styles (political; topographical; geologic; physical; and maybe a resource map)#And 7 more flow charts and a comprehensive time line before I truly understand what’s going on #How many mountains are there again

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bigcats-birds-and-books · 6 months

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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

#text #personal #writing #wf #nano2023 #nano #this is Very Necessary To Me Actually #ive been reading through old stuff intermittently and keep getting pissed at past!Me for not dating any of this shit 🤣#im like combing through geological records over here trying to carbon date shit #(like the beginning of this notebook is from when cramer was a woman and siku Existed and i CAN map that to a draft of avian initiative--#--but gotdamn i dont wanna have to lmao)#so im trying to get better about scribbling a date if not a date and time for my writing sessions when relevant #so future me doesn't lose their fucking mind about it #but i like my words to be counted in the calendar days #but cards can be accomplished in Writing Days #anyway its 1AM and im just now crawling into bed about it but i had fun!!#love unhinged dreams!!!!#does it count as animal death if 1. its in a dream and 2. its in a kitchen in a dream #or is that just Dream Cooking at this stage #(its fuzzy because theyre not uh. theyre not food animals.)#i dont kill real animals in stories but apparently i do what i want in dreams

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yisanged · 20 days

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scioly states finished..... very long day. our team placed 7th overall out of 40 high schools in the entire state. only top 6 place and get trophies. our school has come in 7th or otherwise top ten not placing every year for the past like decade LOL. except it's not as LOL as it really should be because WE DID SO GOOD THIS YEAR and literally two of our consistently best performing events got trialed meaning the scores for those events didn't count towards our overall because the test proctors made stupid mistakes during the set up. really sad :( especially because they're two events two of our most dedicated seniors work really hard for and this was their last year of scioly ever and we didn't get a trophy because the people running the events messed up. lowkey we also kind of ate shit in a few events like 30th and 25th place and a couple mid ones but otherwise we did good like top 20 and a considerable amount of placing so it's totally possible we could've gotten a trophy if those two events had just gone normally. sad for our seniors. also today was literally our schools prom..... so all the seniors and some juniors literally changed into their suits and dresses after they finished their events and just left to go to prom. crazy. but it's ok. funsies. I like science olympiad. I'm dedicating myself to fossils over the summer I've decided. plus geo it's fun. scioly is fun

#I got 5th in geologic mapping.... I got a medal. I'm kind of proud because I do work really hard for geo #I also got 7th forestry. sad to place 7th right before medalling but it was also really crazy bc forestry is lowkey a mess for our team #and fossils 15th..... I did not try though like I got put into fossils late in the season so I always felt kind of uncomfortable with it #plus the senior who does it normally has like a 10 pound binder she's been working on for like 3 years so it's intimidating #but I think I'm gonna take it over from her next year so I wanna get good with it on my own. fossils are cool guys. classic autism interest

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pillars-of-salt · 10 months

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stained glass window that's a geologic map

#geologic maps are so pretty. ok. it's art.

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vizcart · 1 year

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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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kanadia · 9 months

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🏔🌋🌈✨ test artwork for my concept album based on geology, Typical Forever. Discover more about it here.

coming 2024!

#mt rainier #geology #mountains #geological map #geologist #collage #photography #album artwork #prototype #wip #music #singer songwriter

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just-browsing1222 · 3 months

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

#i'm over-doing it with the setting #i don't need a fully realized world #I barely need a fully realized settlement in order to start #but if I'm already tearing a little eladrin boy from his home plane I may as well give a geologically-realistic plane to grow up in #at least a continent #*sigh*#it's fun at least #map making and such #map making #dnd #ttrpg #adhd

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mapsontheweb · 6 months

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Geologic Relief Map State Of Colorado 1979

by odisdca

#maps #odisdca #rdsourced #colorado #1979 #geological maps

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lindahall · 2 days

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Robert J. Hay Cunningham – Scientist of the Day

Robert James Hay Cunningham, a Scottish geologist, died May 15, 1848; one source says he was just 27 years old at the time of his death, which I doubt, because we are going to discuss a book of his, published in 1838, that could hardly have been the work of a 17-year-old.