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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dikes, aggregated by home.social.

  1. See The Mississippi River’s Hidden History, Uncovered By Lasers
    Using hyperprecise LiDAR data,. a cartographer [well, hydrographer!] maps the river’s bend and channels over time with mesmerizing results…
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    nationalgeographic.com/science <-- shared technical / media article
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    dancoecarto.com/ <-- shared @Daniel Coe portfolio and more
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    usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digit <-- shared Harold Fisk's 1944 USACE report, “The Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River”
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    #GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrography #hydrology #LiDAR #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #hydrogeomorphology #Mississippi #River #Fiske #cartography #visualisation #meandering #channels #landforms #floodplains #opendata #3DEP #topography #geomorphology #levees #dikes #oxbows #channel #paleohydrology
    #DanielCoe | @nationalgeographic | #USGS | #USACE

  2. Stormy weather. We went for a short walk between two rain showers and got this beautiful light.
    Have a nice Sunday evening.
    #sunday #sundayvibes #SilentSunday #dijken #dikes #Deiche

  3. Cenozoic Exhumation Across The High Plains Of Southeastern Colorado From (U-Th)/He Thermochronology
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    doi.org/10.2113/2023/lithosphe <-- shared paper
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    [as a geologist and an adventure rider – and a Colorado resident that loves history - I have travelled all over this area; first photo is mine, my motorcycle under the Apishapa Arch in Aguilar, Colorado, a 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps project through a volcanic dyke, ‘coincidentally’ providing better access to land that a senator had purchased up around Cuchara and Cordova Passes]
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #geology #Colorado #structuralgeology #Cenozoic #Thermochronology #model #modeling #3dmodeling #HighPlains #RockyMountains #Tertiary #intrusives #volcanics #vulcanism #SpanishPeaks #ApishapaArch #dates #dating #erosions #peneplanation #dikes #dykes

  4. Above and upon #igneous #dikes

    The feature sure looked like a #dike on #satellite view, and a ground check confirmed it. Probably a late #Triassic or early #Jurassic intrusion into #Proterozoic Dedham #Granite, as #Pangea rifted. At Black Rock #Beach, #Hingham, #Massachusetts, #NewEngland #geology USA.

    Satellite view from #AppleMaps, #photo by me.

  5. Above and upon #igneous #dikes

    The feature sure looked like a #dike on #satellite view, and a ground check confirmed it. Probably a late #Triassic or early #Jurassic intrusion into #Proterozoic Dedham #Granite, as #Pangea rifted. At Black Rock #Beach, #Hingham, #Massachusetts, #NewEngland #geology USA.

    Satellite view from #AppleMaps, #photo by me.