Vicky Veritas
@vickyveritas.bsky.social
Born in the Anthropocene
Worked at the intersection of Geology and GIS BS Geology, MS Earth Science
#Geosciences | #EarthScience | #Geology | #GIS | #Rocks | #TeamFluorite | #ScienceFiction | #Fantasy
Worked at the intersection of Geology and GIS BS Geology, MS Earth Science
#Geosciences | #EarthScience | #Geology | #GIS | #Rocks | #TeamFluorite | #ScienceFiction | #Fantasy
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
I'm just over 90% of the way through #365Minerals! The end is in sight! #minerals 🧪⚒️
331 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Andalusite:
- An aluminosilicate mineral
- A polymorph of kyanite and sillimanite
- A common low grade metamorphic mineral
- Used in the production of high temperature ceramics
- Named after Andalusia in Spain #minerals
Andalusite:
- An aluminosilicate mineral
- A polymorph of kyanite and sillimanite
- A common low grade metamorphic mineral
- Used in the production of high temperature ceramics
- Named after Andalusia in Spain #minerals
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I'm just over 90% of the way through #365Minerals! The end is in sight! #minerals 🧪⚒️
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
4.2 earthquake in Salinas California today just a few minutes ago. This is my hometown nowhere near what we’ve had before however, this is a warning sign.
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
4.2 earthquake in Salinas California today just a few minutes ago. This is my hometown nowhere near what we’ve had before however, this is a warning sign.
Twinned crystals of andalusite (chiastolite) are shown below. Chiastolite is a variety of andalusite that contains black particles of graphite arranged in geometric patterns. More at the comment.
⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
331 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Andalusite:
- An aluminosilicate mineral
- A polymorph of kyanite and sillimanite
- A common low grade metamorphic mineral
- Used in the production of high temperature ceramics
- Named after Andalusia in Spain #minerals
Andalusite:
- An aluminosilicate mineral
- A polymorph of kyanite and sillimanite
- A common low grade metamorphic mineral
- Used in the production of high temperature ceramics
- Named after Andalusia in Spain #minerals
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Twinned crystals of andalusite (chiastolite) are shown below. Chiastolite is a variety of andalusite that contains black particles of graphite arranged in geometric patterns. More at the comment.
⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
On this morning's M6.6 #earthquake in #Sumatra: We received it at home, around 5:10 in the morning (EQ time: 4:56:26 UTC)
At first, I thought we didn't. But it's there, just preceded by noise that mask it a bit.
But...
(1/2)
@raspishake.bsky.social
#raspberryshake #geology #geophysics #science 🧪⚒️
At first, I thought we didn't. But it's there, just preceded by noise that mask it a bit.
But...
(1/2)
@raspishake.bsky.social
#raspberryshake #geology #geophysics #science 🧪⚒️
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
On this morning's M6.6 #earthquake in #Sumatra: We received it at home, around 5:10 in the morning (EQ time: 4:56:26 UTC)
At first, I thought we didn't. But it's there, just preceded by noise that mask it a bit.
But...
(1/2)
@raspishake.bsky.social
#raspberryshake #geology #geophysics #science 🧪⚒️
At first, I thought we didn't. But it's there, just preceded by noise that mask it a bit.
But...
(1/2)
@raspishake.bsky.social
#raspberryshake #geology #geophysics #science 🧪⚒️
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
The GIFT #workshop for #EGU26 is now open for registration!
Whether you're a primary or secondary school #teacher looking to gain first-hand scientific insights, this is your chance to take part in this exciting workshop at #EGU26.
📆: 28 November 2025.
👉: egu.eu/9GCSKA
📷: Stefan Schmitt on #imaggeo
Whether you're a primary or secondary school #teacher looking to gain first-hand scientific insights, this is your chance to take part in this exciting workshop at #EGU26.
📆: 28 November 2025.
👉: egu.eu/9GCSKA
📷: Stefan Schmitt on #imaggeo
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
However you may celebrate the day…let us be thankful that a hospitable planet has made it all possible.
Halcyon holocene days have lapsed
Like hours whiled away waiting
For a time to come that has already passed
Certainty a luxury of the past
Fate intertwined with a planet ailing
#Anthroposcenes #PoetryOfLostClimes
Like hours whiled away waiting
For a time to come that has already passed
Certainty a luxury of the past
Fate intertwined with a planet ailing
#Anthroposcenes #PoetryOfLostClimes
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
However you may celebrate the day…let us be thankful that a hospitable planet has made it all possible.
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
Are you heading into winter? Sure, those online videos of a crackling fire are popular, but this season, have you considered instead tuning into a livestream of a volcanic eruption? 🌋
[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
Live view from Halemaʻumaʻu crater from the southern rim of the caldera [V3cam]. This camera is a pan-tilt-zoom model and the view may change depending on ac...
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Are you heading into winter? Sure, those online videos of a crackling fire are popular, but this season, have you considered instead tuning into a livestream of a volcanic eruption? 🌋
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
Hey #planetSci friends, the end of the year is nearing. Does anyone want to help me put together an Image of the Year Bracket?
If you want to propose your favourite planetary science image of 2025, place it below with a link to the source and when it was published.
If you want to propose your favourite planetary science image of 2025, place it below with a link to the source and when it was published.
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Hey #planetSci friends, the end of the year is nearing. Does anyone want to help me put together an Image of the Year Bracket?
If you want to propose your favourite planetary science image of 2025, place it below with a link to the source and when it was published.
If you want to propose your favourite planetary science image of 2025, place it below with a link to the source and when it was published.
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
M 6.0 - 12 km WNW of Susitna, Alaska. Probably felt by many folks in the Anchorage area.
Did you feel it? Report it.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Did you feel it? Report it.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
M 6.0 - 12 km WNW of Susitna, Alaska. Probably felt by many folks in the Anchorage area.
Did you feel it? Report it.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Did you feel it? Report it.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
It's the most wonderful day of the year for paleo-philes: #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge Day! Based on the preview & advance buzz, looks like a stunning series about our much-more-recently departed megafaunas. 🧪🦥🦣🦘🦬
Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's the most wonderful day of the year for paleo-philes: #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge Day! Based on the preview & advance buzz, looks like a stunning series about our much-more-recently departed megafaunas. 🧪🦥🦣🦘🦬
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
I am pondering my next sabbatical. Do any of you at universities across the globe have programs/fellowships for visiting scholars/faculty from abroad? I'm especially interested in Latin America, Scotland, Wales, England, Japan, Finland, New Zealand, Australia. Thanks! [Reposted from the weekend.]
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I am pondering my next sabbatical. Do any of you at universities across the globe have programs/fellowships for visiting scholars/faculty from abroad? I'm especially interested in Latin America, Scotland, Wales, England, Japan, Finland, New Zealand, Australia. Thanks! [Reposted from the weekend.]
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
The answer to this Guess the Gem is spinel!! This one was part of the Treasury of Saint-Denis in France. #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎
Guess the Gem time!! What mineral do you think this gem is? Hint: in the past gems of this mineral were called rubies, though now the term refers to corundum. #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The answer to this Guess the Gem is spinel!! This one was part of the Treasury of Saint-Denis in France. #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
⚒️ Here's a worthy geoheritage cause; the Scottish Geology Trust is running a crowdfunding campaign for a "Deep Time Trail" at Siccar Point ahead of the 300th anniversary of James Hutton's Birth next year. 4 days left to contribute!
Building the James Hutton Deep Time Trail
We are raising vital funds for a new Deep Time Trail at Siccar Point to celebrate the life and legacy of James Hutton for his Tercentenary.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
⚒️ Here's a worthy geoheritage cause; the Scottish Geology Trust is running a crowdfunding campaign for a "Deep Time Trail" at Siccar Point ahead of the 300th anniversary of James Hutton's Birth next year. 4 days left to contribute!
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
Good morning Calaveras fault! Just felt a little M4.3 earthquake that is located near Gilroy. Just slight shaking in San Francisco that interrupted me as I was sipping coffee. If you felt it, you can report it here: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Good morning Calaveras fault! Just felt a little M4.3 earthquake that is located near Gilroy. Just slight shaking in San Francisco that interrupted me as I was sipping coffee. If you felt it, you can report it here: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
And the paper is out! Great to work with my good friend @rocangel.bsky.social who led the way.
www.seismosoc.org/news/tsunami...
www.seismosoc.org/news/tsunami...
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
And the paper is out! Great to work with my good friend @rocangel.bsky.social who led the way.
www.seismosoc.org/news/tsunami...
www.seismosoc.org/news/tsunami...
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
Had I not been asleep I likely would’ve felt this morning’s (6:18am) M4.0 quake located just east of Gilroy on the southern section of the Calaveras Fault. The fault (mostly) creeps w/o making large quakes from Hollister north to Gilroy with right-lateral offset.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Had I not been asleep I likely would’ve felt this morning’s (6:18am) M4.0 quake located just east of Gilroy on the southern section of the Calaveras Fault. The fault (mostly) creeps w/o making large quakes from Hollister north to Gilroy with right-lateral offset.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
Join us at the Ocean and Weather Symposium at Esri #FedGIS2026. So excited to have Dr. Leslie Smith, Director of the @deepoceanobs.bsky.social, a @unoceandecade.bsky.social program, speak about solving critical ocean challenges via science and collaboration.
ow.ly/jnmN50Xyecy
🌊 🦑 🧪 🌎 🌍 🌏 ⚒️
ow.ly/jnmN50Xyecy
🌊 🦑 🧪 🌎 🌍 🌏 ⚒️
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Join us at the Ocean and Weather Symposium at Esri #FedGIS2026. So excited to have Dr. Leslie Smith, Director of the @deepoceanobs.bsky.social, a @unoceandecade.bsky.social program, speak about solving critical ocean challenges via science and collaboration.
ow.ly/jnmN50Xyecy
🌊 🦑 🧪 🌎 🌍 🌏 ⚒️
ow.ly/jnmN50Xyecy
🌊 🦑 🧪 🌎 🌍 🌏 ⚒️
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
For #RockinTuesday
It's not my fault, Part 637. Yesterday as I was scrambling to the top of a mesa, I had to pause to get a shot of this series of little faults. I hope you all have a good day!
#hiking
#landscapes
It's not my fault, Part 637. Yesterday as I was scrambling to the top of a mesa, I had to pause to get a shot of this series of little faults. I hope you all have a good day!
#hiking
#landscapes
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
For #RockinTuesday
It's not my fault, Part 637. Yesterday as I was scrambling to the top of a mesa, I had to pause to get a shot of this series of little faults. I hope you all have a good day!
#hiking
#landscapes
It's not my fault, Part 637. Yesterday as I was scrambling to the top of a mesa, I had to pause to get a shot of this series of little faults. I hope you all have a good day!
#hiking
#landscapes
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
We got volcano time! (New eruption just started at Kīlauea): www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
We got volcano time! (New eruption just started at Kīlauea): www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
Subsurface rock beneath the Appalachians shows a mantle heat mass that formed during the Greenland and North America split ~80 Ma. It migrated ~1,800 km and now lies ~200 km under New England.
#Tectonics
#MantlePlume
⚒️🧪
Paper
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...
#Tectonics
#MantlePlume
⚒️🧪
Paper
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...
Giant hidden heat blob slowly travels beneath the U. S.
An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and North America 80 million years ago. Researchers suggest this slow-moving “mant...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Subsurface rock beneath the Appalachians shows a mantle heat mass that formed during the Greenland and North America split ~80 Ma. It migrated ~1,800 km and now lies ~200 km under New England.
#Tectonics
#MantlePlume
⚒️🧪
Paper
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...
#Tectonics
#MantlePlume
⚒️🧪
Paper
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...
Reposted by Vicky Veritas
330 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Phlogopite:
- A mica group mineral
- Forms in igneous rocks and via contact metamorphism
- Its name comes from the Greek word "φλογωποζ/phlogopos" (resembling fire) because of its reddish tint #minerals
Phlogopite:
- A mica group mineral
- Forms in igneous rocks and via contact metamorphism
- Its name comes from the Greek word "φλογωποζ/phlogopos" (resembling fire) because of its reddish tint #minerals
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
330 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Phlogopite:
- A mica group mineral
- Forms in igneous rocks and via contact metamorphism
- Its name comes from the Greek word "φλογωποζ/phlogopos" (resembling fire) because of its reddish tint #minerals
Phlogopite:
- A mica group mineral
- Forms in igneous rocks and via contact metamorphism
- Its name comes from the Greek word "φλογωποζ/phlogopos" (resembling fire) because of its reddish tint #minerals
Never heard of Faden quartz. You’re in for a treat! Thank you, @richardgibson.bsky.social
⚒️🧪 geology geoscience #WomenInStem
⚒️🧪 geology geoscience #WomenInStem
#MineralMonday Faden quartz, Pakistan. richardigibson.substack.com/p/faden-quartz
⚒️ #geology . No MAGA! Science = Resistance! #standupforscience
⚒️ #geology . No MAGA! Science = Resistance! #standupforscience
Faden Quartz
A thread
richardigibson.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Never heard of Faden quartz. You’re in for a treat! Thank you, @richardgibson.bsky.social
⚒️🧪 geology geoscience #WomenInStem
⚒️🧪 geology geoscience #WomenInStem
Copper fans, we did it! Copper is the very FIRST Ore Cup Champion & the Ore Mineral of the Year. Great job! 🙌
Thank you, Mineral Cup team. The content has been extra excellent, & another great Cup. Kudos! 290 days until #MinCup26 !
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
Thank you, Mineral Cup team. The content has been extra excellent, & another great Cup. Kudos! 290 days until #MinCup26 !
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Copper fans, we did it! Copper is the very FIRST Ore Cup Champion & the Ore Mineral of the Year. Great job! 🙌
Thank you, Mineral Cup team. The content has been extra excellent, & another great Cup. Kudos! 290 days until #MinCup26 !
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
Thank you, Mineral Cup team. The content has been extra excellent, & another great Cup. Kudos! 290 days until #MinCup26 !
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
I think it's cool how copper connects to tectonics - a failed rift in Michigan, ocean floor stranded by convergent tectonics in Cyprus - and how that tectonics connects to human use of metals.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM