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Its your fault

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We have been learning about plate tectonics, earthquakes, and such. It reminds me of when there were a few earthquakes in magma at the beginning of the lockdown. It honestly shook a lot of people up, literally and figuratively!  I live in eagle mountain and it was the biggest earthquake I had ever felt. I remember laying in bed trying to decide at which point it would get worse and if I needed to get into a door frame or a strong table or something! Its so humbling feeling the earth move beneath you knowing that you have no such power.  Here is an article about the earthquakes. It talks about how Utah has the Wasatch Fault line as well the hurricane fault line in southern utah and that is why earthquakes occur here. We actually have tons of tiny ones from the movement of the plates but because they are so small in magnitude we dont feel anything.  check it out here as well as the image above.    https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinandrews/2019/02/15/an-earthquake-just-woke-people-up-in-u
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Beaches, beaches, beaches

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I happen to be in Galveston Texas, right on the beach where I have been able to watch this process of depositing happen. The waves bring up various sizes and shapes of sediment.   Sand  Shells that have been eroded into smaller sand like sediment  Shards of shells   whole shells  rocks that have been eroded in the water.  its very interesting to see the sections of sand that have lots of shells and those that have clear sand. as well as ripple marks in the sand from the wind on the beach. I wonder if this indicates whether its sorted well or not. because you can find similar sized things in some of the same areas but then there are also sections with all the different sizes and kinds of sediment. 
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Settle in, its story time.

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 Hey y'all, I'm back ( I say as if anyone even reads this lol) I have a story for you. buckle up my dudes, this is going to be wild.  There once was a family of rabbits who lived in a hole in the ground. One day, bobby Jo rabbit woke up and didn't feel very good, and mommy rabbit was very concerned and took him to the doctor. After hours of waiting bobby jo and mommy rabbit got the news that he had been poisoned by nitrates, which happens when fertilizers seep into the soil from rainfall. They decided that the stalactites in their living room burrow were dripping drops of poison on bobby Jo's favorite cabbage ball.     The effects of the nitrates were un-curable and bobby Jo rabbit died the next day. Mommy and papa rabbit decided that they had to move their family to somewhere farther away from the farm and higher than the water table. They didn't want any dripping of poisons on any of the other  bunnies.      The family of rabbits went straight from the funeral of
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Sedimentary Rocks

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 This week we have been learning about sedimentary rocks, but they are hard to classify because all of the different origins of the various layers by many different means.  I found this one behind my house and was fascinated by the stripes and the fact that it had broken.  I found this in a pile of rocks that had broken off in sheets, similar to how shale breaks off.  Because of the different colored striations I would say that there is some sort of oxidation of the iron levels in different layers.
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Volcanoes: Mount St. Helens

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Have you ever seen a Volcano erupt? Mount St. Helen's a Composite Volcano Erupted in last in 1980 , and my mom was 12 years old and living in Washington when it occurred. Her friend and her were outside playing in the yard that morning, when her friend suddenly asked, "what is that?" pointing into the sky. She looked over there was a giant smokey plume in the sky.  She later remembers finding out that Mount St Helen's had erupted, and the hearing the news discuss how big the crater that occurred and how much damage was accounted for in the surrounding areas. Although, they lived 2 hours north of the Volcano, in Olympia , a thin film of ash covered everything that, to her, seemed to last forever. Probably from the wind that kept blowing deposits of ash around. However most of the wind at the time blew south resulting in giant "piles and mountains of ash" on the side of the road the closer you got to the volcano. Similar to today, those who lived close to M
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Is it a Mineral?

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                   Today, I went out in the hills behind my house to try and find some mineral examples and there were just as many cool rocks as I remembered there being when I was little. Among the Limestone, shale, and other rocks we found a few good ones.  Here are some the treasures from this excavation (little dramatic word since we picked them up off the dirt trail leading up the hill): Farthest left: there seems to be some sort of crystalline structured mineral on a rock. Almost seems to be a partial piece of a geode that had been broken up.  Back right: shows some fun sedimentary lines that seem almost rusted which makes me wonder if it has striations of iron or some other metallic element that has a chemical reaction with water and air to create Rust. Also, may be a sheet silicate with how smoothly the layers would break off. Although I fount it interesting that it broke off perpendicularly from the sedimentary lines.  Front left & right:  These are what I would dee
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Introduction to my GeoJournal

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 Hello!  I am Aly! I'm 25. I live in Eagle Mountain, Utah. And yes, there are eagles that nest here in our Mountains ! & I shall be narrating this blog, mostly relating the findings I have in my area based on the information I learn in my Geological learning journey!  A little about me: I have a cute cat who adores me. I love collecting cool rocks, I love my cute nephew, and I started an Etsy shop where I design and sell Graphic tee's (Aly Wein Design). I'm actually an Applied Tech major doing Web development & Graphic Design!                                         I am here because of my admiration and fascination with rocks. I usually find myself climbing or exploring cool rock features like in this photo from down in St. George.  I've always loved them! We would go "crystal and geode hunting" in the hills behind our house here in Eagle Mountain when I was around 7. Since then, I have been know to frequent a few rock shops, occasionally sporting
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