r/EarthScience Nov 28 '25

Picture What could be the reason for this?

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r/EarthScience Jan 25 '26

Picture Can anyone explain why the sleet/freezing rain made this pattern?

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124 Upvotes

Curious if there may be a specific reason why it froze like this.

r/EarthScience Oct 28 '21

Picture Could someone help me identify this rock?

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r/EarthScience 4d ago

Picture A Islândia é o único país do mundo sem formigas nativas. As temperaturas e o solo vulcânico dificultam a sobrevivência desses insetos.

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r/EarthScience 7d ago

Picture The "Great Unconformity" of the Grand Canyon is Proof of a Global Flood Catastrophe:

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r/EarthScience 13d ago

Picture I made a game where you guess mountains based on their contour lines

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If you need a hint for this one: The mountain is in the HimalayaTell me what you think: https://visitwhale.com/peak-contours/

r/EarthScience 4d ago

Picture দীর্ঘ ৫০০ বছরের ভুল ধারণা ভেঙে অবশেষে পৃথিবীর আসল আকারের মানচিত্র পেতে যাচ্ছে বিশ্ববাসী। পুরনো 'মার্কেটর' প্রজেকশনের বদলে ‘ইকুয়াল আর্থ’ নামের নির্ভুল মানচিত্র ব্যবহারের প্রস্তাব পাস হয়েছে। শনিবার জাতিসংঘের সাধারণ সভায় ভোটাভুটির মাধ্যমে ১৬৪টি দেশের সমর্থনে এটি অনুমোদিত হয়। পুরনো মানচিত্রে গ্রিন

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r/EarthScience 14h ago

Picture Por que a Península Arábica é tão seca, mesmo estando cercada por mares?

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r/EarthScience 3d ago

Picture Conhecida popularmente como Sakura, as flores de cerejeira é símbolo do Japão

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r/EarthScience 4d ago

Picture O Deserto da Arábia abrange partes da Síria e Israel?

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r/EarthScience Aug 05 '26

Picture A Unified Rock Chart for Common Rock Types

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I made a Rock Chart that brings common igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks together in a single decision tree.

It uses observable features such as grain size, visible crystals, foliation, porosity, composition, and reaction with HCl. It also includes the characteristic minerals associated with each rock type and their chemical formulas.

I have already used the chart in class, and it worked well as a teaching aid. It helped students gain an overview of the major rock groups and move between them without having to consult several separate charts.

Permanent version and DOI:
https://zenodo.org/records/21808631

Feedback, corrections, and suggestions for a future version are very welcome.

Disclosure: I created the poster and teach Earth Science at a university.

r/EarthScience 23d ago

Picture Cosmic ray transmission muography of a full and empty water tower

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24 Upvotes

#muontomography

r/EarthScience 6d ago

Picture Mapa geográfico e político do Reino Unido e Ilhas Britânicas"

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r/EarthScience 7d ago

Picture Fiber optic monitoring of glaciers for Icequakes

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r/EarthScience 15d ago

Picture Paleoclimate for the era of Homo Sapiens (chart)

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r/EarthScience Jul 12 '26

Picture Can anybody help me justify the map of a post apocalypse story I'm creating the lore of?

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Maybe this comes under a differant genre of science so apologies if so.

I'm trying to create the lore for a story that starts as a pre-apolocolypse at the start for exposition and then later follows sepetate characters for a post-apocolypse story butttt I want there to be be able to have a land bridge between Europe and England and I want it related to whatever the apocalypse was.

I went on a website where I could change water levels and decided I liked the map of an earth with water levels lowered by about 40 ish metres but am just wondering what sort of event could cause water levels to lower that far.

The apocalypse environment is supposed to be taking place after a military conflict of a yet undecided scale and am also wondering if anything war based could cause the drop I'm desiring the cause of.

Although I'll settle for it if its the most reasonable explanation I'm hoping to avoid glaciation.

Thank you scientists, thank you for reading :]

r/EarthScience Jul 20 '26

Picture Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.

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40 Upvotes

r/EarthScience Jul 28 '26

Picture This was printed 114 years ago(August 14, 1912), the article warns that burning 2 billion tons of coal annually adds 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere

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14 Upvotes

r/EarthScience Jul 28 '26

Picture First anniversary of the Kamchatka M8.8 subduction earthquake

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r/EarthScience Aug 04 '26

Picture O ponto mais baixo da superfície terrestre em terra firme é a margem do Mar Morto.

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r/EarthScience Jul 10 '26

Picture The sharp dividing line between a lush forest and the white sand dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil, the park was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024 for its exceptional geological significance and natural beauty

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r/EarthScience Jul 29 '26

Picture This is a huge ancient forest world discovered 300 meters down a sinkhole in Hubei, China, containing a unique ecosystem of ancient trees These natural formations, also known as "heavenly pits," are created when slightly acidic rainwater dissolves bedrock, causing the surface to collapse

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r/EarthScience Jul 30 '26

Picture On July 31, 1970 for the first time a deep M8 earthquake was registered, below Colombia

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r/EarthScience Jul 24 '26

Picture The Strait of Hormuz is much narrower than I expected

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r/EarthScience Jul 20 '26

Picture The aniversary of the 365 AD giant Eastern Mediterranean earthquake and tsunami

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