A very unique ecoregion known as the “coastal fog desert” can be found in the Dhofar region of Oman🇴🇲 only during the monsoon season

Thick fogs provide moisture enough to turn the desert bright green with plants and invigorate natural springs creating tons of biodiversity 🧪
#travel #Oman #climate

Salt pond A12 of Alviso Marina County Park in San Jose, CA

Microbes adapted to live in salty water give the pond a red hue that looks beautiful in the sunset. Pictures are not edited at all!

Also an important migratory bird stop. Protect our marshes!🧪
#travel #california #environment

What if I told you the modern oil industry is dependent on beans?

My mom cooked some guar beans the other day with potatoes and spices

90% of guar beans grown in India are processed into guar gum which is a crucial thickening agent in fracking fluid used for drilling

#science #oil #geology 🧪

Every winter North India faces a major environmental catastrophe in the form of extreme air pollution. I woke up wheezing in my Delhi hotel to a 378 AQI

Why?

Burning of fields after harvest, vehicle emissions, and calm winds trapping pollution preventing dispersal

#india#travel🧪#science#climate

As we slowly divest from oil/gas, let’s take a look at where it all started.

Baku Azerbaijan, the world’s first oil well 1846. The Absheron area is so full of O/G that gas seeps result in burning hillsides, and 350/700 of the world’s mud volcanoes. Oil wells everywhere too🧪
#geology #travel #energy

On the black sand beaches of the North Island you might see some patches shimmering a metallic blue

These are iron sands containing volcanic heavy minerals like titanomagnetite and ulvite that look blue!

Picture pairs with the saturation upped on one to show the mineralogy
🧪 #geology #newzealand

Some photos from my field area in the Whanganui basin in New Zealand(Aotearoa).

I’m Anurag and I’m a sedimentologist,

If you want to learn about what sand tells us about the evolution of landscapes and continents over millions of years drop a follow!🧪

#sedimentology #geoscience #newzealand 🧪

Flowers of Japan thread from my trip last summer 🇯🇵
#japan #flowers #japantravel #travel #nature

My first field experience as a geology graduate student last weekend looking at ~300+ million year old Carboniferous river delta and continental shelf deposits of the Heartshorne formation in Central Arkansas!

This state is absolutely beautiful and I can’t wait to explore more of it #geosciences 🧪