Why is the Maine coastline so smooth below Portland and so jagged above?pic.twitter.com/XOvT7tQDJY
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Why is the Maine coastline so smooth below Portland and so jagged above?pic.twitter.com/XOvT7tQDJY
i went into a movie & came out to all these real answers, y’all are the best!! next q, so is Portland deliberately northernmost easy port?
Beautiful geologic map via @emontanatuck http://digitalmaine.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=mgs_maps …
Fault lines, more splintered above Portland than below? http://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=atlas_docs …
Lots of bathymetry https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/maps/area1.html …
Louis Agassiz roadtrippin around Maine, 1867 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1867/02/glacial-phenomena-in-maine-part-i/531891/ …pic.twitter.com/DcRSlzBjmH
I guess uh it does make sense that stuff farther north would be more cut-up more recently by glaciers... but I hadn’t thought about it!! http://climatechange.umaine.edu/Research/news/ClimateExplanation/ClimatePage3.pdf … So an “answer” is some interaction b/w geologic stuff ~15,000 years ago and colonial stuff ~384 years agopic.twitter.com/x2H39KroRv
What is the biggest rock? http://www.maine.gov/dacf/mgs/explore/surficial/facts/surficial.htm …pic.twitter.com/qATRnwxlka
If you thought we were done with rocks here you’ve got another thing coming! @emontanatuck patiently explaining that glaciers don’t cause faults, but there’s something called the Norumbega fault zone (named for a legendary 16th c. settlement!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nETXUUIob98 …pic.twitter.com/DcHMq7QpBT
This is great, Toph! I'm finding myself anticipating your geology tweets :-) Also: a really honking large rock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru
Incredible!! Ordinarily a rock is obviously an independent object; I love that geology operates on a scale where it becomes more fluidly interdependent, turbulent, less separable…
@hypotext and I were recently wondering: What was the first independent object?
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