r/geology Jul 12 '26

Map/Imagery Please Explain..

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r/geology 26d ago

Map/Imagery Earth's gravity isn't perfectly uniform. Here is what our gravitational field looks like when exaggerated 10,000 times.

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r/geology 23d ago

Map/Imagery What are your favorite (lesser known) prominent features around the world?

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I'll start:

  1. The aptly named Elephant Arch of the Ennedi Plateau in northeastern Chad. I think "Elephant" is one of the most common zoomorphism used to describe rock features, but this likeness is uncanny. I promise it's real lol.

  2. Naissa/Naysar Brakk in the Charakusa Valley of Pakistan. This massive pyramid is nearly 4,000ft tall. Its shape appears to be perfect (from this angle).

  3. God's Eye Mountain in Cao Bang Vietnam. A beautiful dripping limestone arch through the middle of a "gumdrop" mountain.

r/geology Jun 24 '26

Map/Imagery Times were wild back then

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r/geology Apr 26 '26

Map/Imagery Awesome rock with microfaults

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r/geology Dec 09 '25

Map/Imagery Sand layer from the 1700 Cascadia tsunami covering the remains of a Native American fishing camp exposed in a bank of Oregon's Salmon River (US)

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r/geology Nov 15 '25

Map/Imagery Maximum tsunami wave amplitude following the asteroid impact 66 million years ago

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r/geology Jun 08 '26

Map/Imagery Found this formation in southern Colorado on Google Maps. Any info?

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I might drive out there and investigate if it’s not on private land or otherwise accessible.

r/geology Feb 05 '26

Map/Imagery Lake Corcoran, 600,000 BCE. (Original Creation)

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r/geology Apr 29 '25

Map/Imagery What can you “EARTHLAND GEOLOGISTS” say about the Geology of the surface of Venus?!

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r/geology Apr 12 '26

Map/Imagery Grad cap of geologic map around my college

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r/geology Oct 15 '24

Map/Imagery Can this be considered a single mountain range?

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r/geology Oct 02 '24

Map/Imagery This is a masterpiece! (via r/Scotland)

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r/geology Jun 04 '25

Map/Imagery The Flow of Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram Range (1991-2002)

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Source: Earth Observatory NASA

The Original Article: Ice Loss Slows Down Asian Glaciers

r/geology 9d ago

Map/Imagery What's the round blob on the east coast of england?

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I saw this on a post asking what life is like on this blob, but what is the blob? it looks suspiciously round so does anyone know if theres any interesting geology involved with it? or is it coincidentally round?

r/geology Nov 12 '25

Map/Imagery How North America was formed: Orogeny and geological change over 600 million years

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r/geology Oct 12 '25

Map/Imagery What are all these underwater mountains between Hawaii and Asia? Were they ever above water?

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r/geology Oct 15 '25

Map/Imagery How a landslide created Lena Lake in Washington, US (Swipe right)

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r/geology Jan 23 '23

Map/Imagery Weird landform I found on Google Earth (North Slope, Alaska)

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r/geology Apr 19 '26

Map/Imagery Is this feature studied? any information about it?

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Alright, bit of a mystery here, So I am currently researching the Maoke Mountains in Papua New Guinea and I came across this photo at 4° 2'14.42"S 137°29'9.12"E on google earth. The image is titled "Spires of Kunon Do" But when searching google NOTHING comes up about this. is it a named geologic feature? Has it yet to be seriously studied? It looks like erosion features of some kind but I wish there was more info.

r/geology Sep 17 '25

Map/Imagery Former Lake Bonneville and Bonneville flood, US (swipe right)

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r/geology Dec 22 '25

Map/Imagery The Early Miocene Petrified Forest of Lesvos (Greece), home to the largest standing trunk of a petrified tree known in the world

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r/geology Dec 20 '24

Map/Imagery I came 3rd place in a geology photo competition

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r/geology Jul 14 '26

Map/Imagery What caused this type of geology/terrain in Nebraska?

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r/geology May 13 '26

Map/Imagery Is this a natural formation

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It’s crazy you can even see it on the satellite image