UVU Earth Science

Official Twitter account of the Dept. of Earth Science at Utah Valley University. We do geology, geography, & environmental science!

[UVU Earth Science @UVUEarthScience]

Earth Science Seminar 3/29: Dr. Steve Davis of the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage will present "Mitigating Climate Change with Carbon Capture and Geological Sequestration." Great opportunity to learn about the subject from an expert.

[Danny Brothers @DBrothersSC]

Coring the the Great Salt Lake is underway... Day 1 was a success. We hope to constrain the age of movement on faults and explore shaking proxies, ie sediment remibilzation adjacent to the scarp, using the 2020 Magna earthquake as a calibration.

[Chris DuRoss @chrisduross]

What lies beneath the Great Salt Lake? Great to finally have Chirp data rolling in on this lake paleoseismology project with @DBrothersSC and @neotectonics. Profile shows debris flow/landslide near Antelope Island buried by lake sediments.

[UVU @UVU]

We encourage you to follow your passions and stay true to your colors and pride. Find a program, a club, or something else that is true to you. There's a place for you at UVU.

[Manoochehr Shirzaei @shirzaei]

#ChamplainTowersSouth tilt time series shows a peculiar pattern. South vs north was tilting at a rate of 17.8 microrad/yr and there was a turning point in 2018, any guesses on what could cause the tilt and turning point? @virginia_tech @Sentinel1a

[Chris DuRoss @chrisduross]

Good haul on day 1 of coring GSL seds! Last photo is “brine shrimp fecal pellet mud” buried by sand sourced from a lake bottom fault scarp.

[Hilary Hungerford @HungerfordHil]

First official day as Faculty Senate President at @UVU . Excited to work for faculty needs and to keep us moving forward.

[UVU Earth Science @UVUEarthScience]

Geoscience, meet Pride!

[Michael Bunds @cataclasite]

In case you've ever wondered how to measure #pride, here's the installation of our flag on my @raspishake . #Pride2021 #PrideMonth2021 #utahpridecenter

[UVU Earth Science @UVUEarthScience]

And G.K. Gilbert's studies of this earthquake and its fault scarp undoubtedly influenced his thinking and ground-breaking understanding that fault scarps along the Wasatch front represent past earthquakes and that Salt Lake City faces a major earthquake threat.

[UVU Earth Science @UVUEarthScience]

A beautiful scarp indeed (worthy of a field trip!?), and a famous earthquake that was felt by John Muir in what is now Yosemite National Park!

[USGS Earthquakes @USGS_Quakes]

One of the most dramatic fault scarps in California is along the Owen's Valley fault, which hosted one of the State's largest historical earthquakes on 26 March 1872, 149 yrs ago today. Fault motion was mostly horizontal, w/ a small component of vertical motion #FaultFriday

[MapPorn @MapPornTweet]

North American Cryptids https://t.co/i8G2jnz7Df #MapPorn

[UVU Earth Science @UVUEarthScience]

A major advance in our understanding of the Earth. Life as we know it is dependent on the Earth's liquid inner core and the magnetic field it generates. #WomensHistoryMonth

[UVU @UVU]

WE ARE #1 FOR EARNINGS RIGHT OUT OF COLLEGE WHEN COMPARED TO OTHER UNIVERSITIES IN THE STATE!!!

https://t.co/pGsHO6N0ie

[UVU Earth Science @UVUEarthScience]

Inspiring.

[ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover @NASAPersevere]

Welcome to “Máaz.”

My team is working with the Navajo Nation and @NNPrezNez, who are sharing their language to help us informally name features I’m exploring on Mars, like:

tsé łichíí (red rock)
yéigo (diligence)
séítah (amongst the sand)

Learn more: https://t.co/lqy0K1zz6N

[USGS Store @USGSstore]

It's #FreeMapMonday! Retweet and follow us for a chance to win the map of Canyonlands NP, UT!

#USGSStore (U.S. residents only)

[OpenTopography @OpenTopography]

Latest update to the @USGSTNM 3D Elevation Program #lidar data collection in OT: 12 datasets, inc coverage of red rock country in S UT (e.g., Grand Staircase-Escalante NM). Here's the confluence of Buckskin Gulch (left - "longest slot canyon in the 🌎") w/ the Paria River Canyon

[OpenTopography @OpenTopography]

Also in this batch of #3DEP data is a large #lidar dataset covering west-central Colorado (area around Gunnison). Below: a portion of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River gorge in @BlackCanyonNPS (left) and the Crested Butte area, inc @skicrestedbutte.

[ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover @NASAPersevere]

Your front-row seat to my Mars landing is here. Watch how we did it.

#CountdownToMars

[Rocket Women @RocketWomen_]

It's been such an exciting week with Perseverance's successful landing on Mars! For anyone curious about what working in mission operations for Mars rovers is like, check out our interview with @tanyaofmars here:
https://t.co/PWKi0digNd
#rocketwomen #Perseverance #womeninSTEM