Andrew

Always interested in geology, mining, and cycling

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@SierraGeology @coconinoite I would also be interested to attend the next field trip on vintage railcars to view the Sierra foothills Mesozoic and Tertiary units.

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@LaurelNBCMT Ok, but with cattle slow is fast...slow those them down, make sure the calfs are with their mommas, keep the weight on them.

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@Miss___Molly___ that horse has very similar but as my horse 😀. I do not see that so often

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@KristabelDH @53x121 where are you pedaling off to without water bottles? 😝

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@whoiskatrin @rickygervais It feels so good to be able to be healthy and run. And I agree, I mainly only use Garmin devices.

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@whoiskatrin London is spectular, so is San Francisco and many other places in the world. For me the best place in the World is wherever I am at that point in time.

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@AbigailHudak hard to identify rocks from pics, but knowing the area is volcanic, I would say the platy structure was formed by contraction during cooling. The structure is generally parallel to the surface of cooling, since the structures are near vertical, the rocks have been overturned.

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@MiekeDocx Glad you are back riding. It is difficult to find a successful athlete that has not broken collar bone, or separated shoulder at least once 😆

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@virginiahanusik Interesting. I am thinking that the photo was probably taken somewhere in the southern part of the Hudson Valley (somewhere south of Hudson). And maybe the artist depiction on paper was of somewhere north of Hudson, like maybe Albany or even further north?

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@ZoeWestermanBLB Always nice to get out and get in a spin early before breakfast!

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@greenwoodae and yes Miocene, I do not know the location of that volcano but you said 8 million years ago, so yes it likely was revegetated sometime during Miocene.

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@greenwoodae Yes, the birds, rodents and wind can carry the seed to areas where seeds were fully destroyed by the volcano. This can happen really quickly (in geologic time) depending on the type of volcano and the magma.

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@greenwoodae This potentially explains why there is often high production agricultural lands in the vicinity of many of the world’s volcanoes.

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@greenwoodae Cool video. Volcanic eruptions are destructive. Magma can contain Si, Fe, Mg, Ca, K and Na, so the soil from weathering volcanic rx and ash is often rich in nutrients. This soil fertility bolsters vegetation, aiding in the recovery of an ecosystem after an explosion.

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@abbylexisalinas A part of me loves Texas. I spent 2.5 years there, and would not trade that time for anything. But I am also glad to be back home now.

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@jolandaneff @cransmontana Great photos

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@char_broughton I like the blacked out bike. Most all of my bikes are black, can easily change teams and still match the new kits. LOL

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@morganisawizard Good morning

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@natalie_kovarik Well maybe not better, and not my first experience, but I cannot eat lamb without remembering many hard days of work in the mountains of northern Nevada for exploration ending with lamb dinner at a Basque resturant with snow capped mountains in background.

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@abuckaroogirl Very nice.