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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:24 pm
I'm pretty sure it's a 1,000 feet underground, and they probably formed because the whole are of it used to be full of mineral rich water, that plus a nearby magma chamber or something probably kept the water heated from where ever it used to come. I think they discovered it while looking for something else, I can't seem to find my magazine that had it, but I'll post it once I find out.
And soon.(hopefully, assuming I can motivate my dad to take pics.) I can start posting pictures of minerals that I just spent a whole freaking paycheck on over the weekend. I got; Amazonite, Rose Celestine, 8lb chunk of lepidolite with pink tourmaline inclusions, Malachite with Azurite, Vavianite, Aragonite, Wulfenite, and Creedite. mrgreen Pretty darn nice samples of them too. mrgreen
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:38 pm
AWESOME pic!.
My actual home is in the Ozarks mountains (I use the term "mountains" loosely, though that is the name). It is the oldest area geologically in North America. Lots of caves, but only about every 100 to 150 years is there a substantial earthquake- usually from the "New Madrid" fault line. In the ozarks we have caves, hot springs, artesian springs, peridot, garnet, and diamonds! I, of course have not yet found a diamond, but know people who have. I find arrowheads! (oops! different topic!)
Currently, I am in Wyoming, only 2 hours from Yellowstone xd , and will be doing the exploring, tourist "thing" in about 2 weeks when I have a bunch of days off in a row mrgreen . I went there when I was small, but haven't been there since, except for a day trip during the winter when I was in Montana.
I LOVE to travel!
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:26 am
One odd place I visited once was Shoshone Ice Caves in Idaho. It is an ancient lava tube that became frozen inside due to some particular air currents. Man exploring this cave disrupted the air flow and caused it to thaw, but it was eventually restored to its original condition. One of the oddest tourist spots I've been. Here is a link for those who are interested. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/IDSHOcave.html
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:49 am
I've been to the ice cave-- you're right- it's different mrgreen . Interesting, though.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:33 am
Now that's pretty cool, I've been spelunking before into the back part of Cave of the winds, but Ice cave Spelunking would be even cooler....And I still can't seem to get those pictures up yet.... sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:53 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:18 pm
At last! Fellow geologists on Gaia!
I'm in the last year of my undergraduate geology degree. It's lots of fun!
I live in Auckland, New Zealand. I live amongst 46 volcanic scoria cones. mrgreen However, they're all really small since Auckland is part of a Tiny Igneous Province (hot spot volcanism - not at a plate boundary). New Zealand is a very geologically active place. The two islands sit along a subducting plate boundary, so we've got some pretty spectacular mountain ranges, and quite a few volcanoes (though only a few are active).
You guys in the US are so lucky! There's so many lovely places I'd like to go see there. In particular I'd very much like to see Yellowstone Park (I hear the whole thing is a huge caldera!), and the Grand Canyon (all those lovely sediments!).
I encourage everyone to give geology a go, even if its just for a hobby. The field skills are easy to learn, and are very powerful tools for understanding our surroundings. You'll never see the landscape in the same way again!
Happy rock hunting!
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:41 pm
Miss Moonbeam At last! Fellow geologists on Gaia! I'm in the last year of my undergraduate geology degree. It's lots of fun! I live in Auckland, New Zealand. I live amongst 46 volcanic scoria cones. mrgreen However, they're all really small since Auckland is part of a Tiny Igneous Province (hot spot volcanism - not at a plate boundary). New Zealand is a very geologically active place. The two islands sit along a subducting plate boundary, so we've got some pretty spectacular mountain ranges, and quite a few volcanoes (though only a few are active). You guys in the US are so lucky! There's so many lovely places I'd like to go see there. In particular I'd very much like to see Yellowstone Park (I hear the whole thing is a huge caldera!), and the Grand Canyon (all those lovely sediments!). I encourage everyone to give geology a go, even if its just for a hobby. The field skills are easy to learn, and are very powerful tools for understanding our surroundings. You'll never see the landscape in the same way again! Happy rock hunting! New Zealand eh? I hear you guys have a lot of Graywacke there. mrgreen Although I wish I was in New Zealand, You've got beaches mountains, and forest all with in the same seeing distance. Oh yeah Yellowstone...it's actually in it's time interval for eruption, So you better visit it before it goes....of course it may not go for another hundred years...but still it could blow up next week! (well no, we'll probably have about a week or two of notice before it happens.) You should visit the Grand Teton mountain range if you ever go up there. That will blow you away....They're some of the largest fault block mountains in the world I think....plus they have some specimens of Garnet embedded within Biotite mica schist. It's pretty impressive. ooooh, Come visit colorado sometime, we have some pretty awesome stuff that'll blow you away. Garden of the gods, Cave of the winds, Good 'ole Bathollithic Pikes peak with it's unique pink K-spar rich granite. And coming from the north on I-40 you'll be able to see a major fault line all the way to down to Alamosa, plus we've got the great sand dunes, a few very old Super Caldera craters, and the yule marble (state rock) mine. And Rhodochrosite.(State mineral) Of course South Dakota is where you really want to go if you're looking for great mineral specimens.
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:14 pm
Hooray! I've finally found geologist on gaia!!
I am a junior geology undergrad in wisconsin, and i'm so happy there are other geophiles on here!
I am president of my college geology club and Head T.A. too so i'm so glad to hear there are at least a few people who don't want to cry at the sight of a piece of hornblende.
As for Wisconsin Geology. Its truly amazing once you begin to realize how many different terranes are here!!! I've seen the coolest formations on our weekend trips around the state! If you were wondering our State Rock is Granite (due to the Wolf River Batholith) and our State Mineral is Galena.
As for out of state college experiences in geology (i didn't discover geology until i was a freshman) I've been to MN, MI, CA for a week in Death Valley, and the Dominican Republic. This winter i will be spending 10 days in the Galapagos, studying the hot spot, and my field camp is in Utah this summer! So many fun things to look forward to!
Currently I am taking Hydrogeology and Structural Geology as well as running the Intro to Geology labs. And i'm working on a semester paper about Yellowstone Tectonics...(originally it was going to be about the Laramide Orogeny until my professor decided he was bored with that and switched it on me...*sigh*
Anyway thats a little about me smile I'm so glad to finally meet geologists here!
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