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Ron Schott ⚒

@rschott

Geologist. GigaPan photographer. Educator. Alpha geek. Explorer.

 Bakersfield, CA
Joined March 2007
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#fieldwork #fieldcamp2018 #geology @MissouriSandT you can read about it, you can go to lecture and hear about it, but when you go to the field and #doityourself that's when you own it forever @MissouriSandT
Image from John Patrick Hogan (@rockswhisperer)
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Sublime sunrise over the sea stacks at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore by Michael DeWitt #Wisconsin
Image from U.S. Department of the Interior (@Interior)
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earthmagazine.org/article/fi…
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Learn how #VirtualReality is being used in geoscience classrooms! My latest for @earthmagazine Thanks to @phaneritic @Xeno_lith @giga_macro @AccessibleGEO @callanbentley for their insights! #geoscience #geology #fieldwork
Image from Sarah Derouin (@Sarah_Derouin)
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Want to know about the rock you are standing on? Learn the paleography? Take strike and dip? Find an outcrop? Check out #RockD app by @UWMacrostrat! Amazing for those interested in#geoscience.
Image from Michael Pyrcz🌻 (@GeostatsGuy)
Image from Michael Pyrcz🌻 (@GeostatsGuy)
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Jascha Polet@CPPGeophysics19 May 2018
Watch spatter ramparts being created, live! This will be a great video to use when I teach volcanology again. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SN4ai4…
Image from Jascha Polet (@CPPGeophysics)
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"Mount St. Helens and the Fear of Not Knowing" Good essay on the confusion and lack of info that I alluded to earlier. theatlantic.com/science/arch…
Mount St. Helens and the Fear of Not Knowing

Mount St. Helens and the Fear of Not Knowing

In the era before cellphones and Twitter, awaiting a looming dark cloud of volcanic ash was full of anxiety and wonder—then the sky turned black.

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Jascha Polet@CPPGeophysics18 May 2018
Fascinating thread about the water crisis in Mexico City and the role of geology. I had previously looked into this from the point of view of amplified earthquake ground motions, and it is fascinating to read about this perspective. nitter.gq/zoeschlanger/status/99…
Zoë Schlanger (@zoeschlanger) profile pictureZoë Schlanger@zoeschlanger18 May 2018
I spent last month working from Mexico City, a place in constant—and worsening—water crisis. I wrote about how an ancient lava flow might hold a key to solving it 🌋🇲🇽qz.com/1281506/solving-mexic…
Image from Zoë Schlanger (@zoeschlanger)
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Dr. Lucy Jones
@DrLucyJones18 May 2018
The ‘Big One’ is a threat even if you don’t live in California on.mktw.net/2rPEwuu

Opinion: The ‘Big One’ is a threat even if you don’t live in California

A powerful West Coast earthquake will one day shake the entire U.S. economy, writes seismologist Lucy Jones.

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Hematite ‘blueberries’ both in-situ (right) and eroded out (left) of cross bedded red sandstones in Utah #PS9605
Image from Joshua Laughton (@JoshuaLaughton)
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#Geotweeps. What would you consider the 3 most important core skills for an Earthscientist? Photo is a quarry N of Auckland exposing an impressive ~80 Myr unconformity between the Cretaceous Waipapa basement and overlying Miocene Waitemata Group – at Auckland, New Zealand
Image from Dr Lorna Strachan 🌊🔨 (@NZSeds)
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Yosemite National Park Announces that Tioga Road Will Open for the Season on Monday, May 21, 2018 nps.gov/yose/learn/news/yose…

Yosemite National Park Announces that Tioga Road Will Open for the Season on Monday, May 21, 2018 -...

Yosemite National Park Announces that Tioga Road Will Open for the Season on Monday, May 21, 2018

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Steer for the sunset. Take a drive through these iconic national parks #FindYourPark🏞🚗🌅on.doi.gov/drives
A road runs along a mountain ridge above a wide green valley.

ALT A road runs along a mountain ridge above a wide green valley.

A road curves through a deep forest in the fall.

ALT A road curves through a deep forest in the fall.

A road zig zags up the side of a red rock canyon on a snowy day.

ALT A road zig zags up the side of a red rock canyon on a snowy day.

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Perfect week to drive up SR 504 and visit Johnston Ridge Observatory at @MtStHelensNVM. Friday marks the 38th anniversary of the 1980 eruption. @MSHInstitute hosting an activity-packed "It's A Blast" on Saturday. nitter.gq/wsdot_sw/status/996471…
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@wsdot_southwest15 May 2018
On Wednesday, May 16, travelers on State Route 504 – also known as Spirit Lake Memorial Highway – will have access past the gates at Coldwater Lake, continuing up to the Johnston Ridge Observatory, to delight in the breathtaking scenery of @MtStHelensNVM bit.ly/2rLfP1x
State Route 504 - also known as Spirit Lake Memorial Highway - reopening near Coldwater Lake, on Wednesday, May 16

ALT State Route 504 - also known as Spirit Lake Memorial Highway - reopening near Coldwater Lake, on Wednesday, May 16

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Sandra McLaren@sandramcgeo16 May 2018
GeoTweeps: can anyone point me to some studies/papers/projects evaluating student engagement among undergraduates when Twitter is used as a teaching tool? Ideally Geo specific! Thanks 🙂
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Stay connected to your local National Forest through social media! For a complete list of platforms, visit: fs.usda.gov/detail/r5/news-e… @usfs_r5
Image from USFS Fire and Aviation-Southern California (@SoCalUSFS_Fire)
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3D model of Panum Crater, Mono Craters in eastern CA
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Sand, stone & snow catch the sunlight at Great Sand Dunes National Park #Colorado
A flat plain runs up to a massive line of sand dunes with mountains rising in the background in the golden light of sunset.

ALT A flat plain runs up to a massive line of sand dunes with mountains rising in the background in the golden light of sunset.

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Emma Wotherspoon@EmmaEarth13 May 2018
Spent this evening wandering, paddling and sitting peacefully watching the sunset on Gairloch beach. Dreamy kind of way to end the weekend! Gairloch never, ever disappoints.
Image from Emma Wotherspoon (@EmmaEarth)
Image from Emma Wotherspoon (@EmmaEarth)
Image from Emma Wotherspoon (@EmmaEarth)
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Great start for #SaltSaturday. Here is a collage of some of the amazing geotweets shared today! From salt deposition, to deformation and dissolution. THANK YOU all for your contribution to the World 🌎 🤩🙌🏼 #Salt #geotwitter #salttectonics #geology #earth #PlanetEarth
Image from Dr Clara Rodríguez 🇻🇪 in 🇲🇽 💃🏻 (@claraexplores)
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