Crystals & Rocks Observed

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-...

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. 

 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 strai...