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doktrock, 10 months ago to random

The bike sculpture at Pringle, off the George S. Mickelson Trail, S of Custer, Black Hills, #SouthDakota. Started in the 1980s by a repair shop owner. You can walk inside it!

Closer view of hundreds of old bikes, arranged in a pile, showing a path through
Another closer view of hundreds of old bikes, arranged in a pile, showing a path through

doktrock, 10 months ago to random

#Barbenheimer mission accomplished! Both exceeded expectations #Oppenheimer #Barbie

Top: scene from OPPENHEIMER profile wearing protective glasses w face lit up watching the test explosion. Bottom: scene from BARBIE with Barbie and Ken in a pink car facing the audience

doktrock, 10 months ago to Wyoming

Devils Tower #Wyoming from afar

doktrock, 10 months ago to random

Wyoming sunset

doktrock, 10 months ago to Montana

Outside of #Glendive #Montana USA is the Cedar Creek plunging anticline. Oil was discovered here in the 1930's and is still being recovered from the Cambrian Deadwood Fm, the Mississippian Madison group and others (can't say about this particular one) #geology

View overlooking the Cedar Creek valley. Beds in the distance are dipping away - the creek occupies the breached anticlinal hinge
An operating oil well in the Cedar Creek anticline, Montana

doktrock, 10 months ago to Minneapolis

Panorama of #Minneapolis historic flour milling district, along the Mississippi River. All powered by the elevation drop at St. Anthony Falls waterfall. View from a former rail bridge, now the Stone Arch Bridge #Minnesota #MNastodon

doktrock, 11 months ago to random

Coal veins that burned in the past created reddish pink colored very hard metamorphic rocks. These are locally known as clinker and scoria (not the volcanic type), and used for road gravel. Here are some relocated chunks as seen at Medora, #NorthDakota

Two large (ca. 0.5 m diam) clinker chunks showing reddish mixed agglomeration of formerly partially molten sediment
Foreground, a large (ca. 0.5 m diam) clinker chunk showing reddish mixed agglomeration of formerly partially molten sediment with a few more scattered in the background

doktrock, 11 months ago to random

Gift cards for cash: #NorthDakota governor Doug Burgum is about to drop hundreds of thousands of dollars on gift cards to qualify for the debate

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/10/doug-burgum-gift-cards-debate-00105512

doktrock, 11 months ago to Iceland

#Soil section from Naefurholt, South #Iceland, at the National Museum in Reykjavík, showing tephra layers from historic eruptions of Hekla back to settlement time 870 C.E.

Green_Footballs, 11 months ago to random

#NowPlaying Yes > The Yes Album > I've Seen All Good People: a. Your Move, b. All Good People https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00123IATW/?tag=littlegreenfo-20

doktrock, 11 months ago to Iceland

2021 eruption of Geldingadalur, Fagradalsfjall area #Iceland #volcano #geology

doktrock, 11 months ago to chicago

Cover of Campbell's "Authentic World's Fair Journal" February, 1893 - the Columbian Exposition, #Chicago. As seen in the Hubbard County Historical Museum, Park Rapids, #Minnesota

niphette, 11 months ago to mastodon

#Mastodon has been A+ for keeping up with the latest news from #Russia. Reminds me a bit of Twitter circa Iranian Sea of Green protests in 2009. Lots of solid info, misinformation called out immediately, helpful analysis. Being able to follow hashtags is just straight gas

doktrock, 11 months ago to Minnesota

"Smiley" The Nisswa Ox, painted by Nisswa elementary students #Minnesota #MNastodon

The other side of a sculpture of an ox, painted swirly blue, with scenes of lake life and a schoolhouse

doktrock, 11 months ago to chicago

#Chicago #Chinatown

doktrock, 11 months ago to Minnesota

Weekend afternoon in northern #Minnesota #MNastodon

Two beers on a table
A railroad bridge over a river, framed by lush green trees and grass

doktrock, 11 months ago to Minnesota

#Minnesota #lake on a Saturday afternoon

doktrock, 1 year ago to random

Freshly found fossil fragments from the Oligocene Brule Formation, western #NorthDakota #FossilFriday

Small (less than cm) dark color fossil bits, one of them a portion of a jaw with little teeth
Elongated fossil bone fragments several cm long

doktrock, 1 year ago to random

Petrified tree stump in the Paleocene Sentinel Butte Formation, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, western #NorthDakota #fossilfriday

doktrock, 1 year ago to random

Sunset #Bismarck #NorthDakota

doktrock, 1 year ago to random

A physical 3-D model and location map of the Little Knife Field, #NorthDakota, as seen at RMS-AAPG 2023 in Bismarck. By Robert F. Lindsay of Midland, Texas

Index map of Williston Basin, showing Little Knife field, eroded edge of Mission Canyon Formation, isopach thickness of Madison Group, and paleolatitude during the Carboniferous. From Lindsay and Kendall (1985).

darren, 1 year ago to homebrewing

Enjoying a Fulton Lonely Blonde at Front Street Tap Room, #FargoND, serving local-only #beer from microbreweries across #northdakota and #Minnesota exclusively.

#Fargo #fedibeer #beersofmastodon

doktrock, 1 year ago to random

If you're in #Chicago, see "Pop-Up Books" at the #NewberryLibrary! aka Engineered Paper, many are historical scientific tools such as astronomical calculators, globes, etc. Free entry!

Globe gores -Elongated paper strips that can be constructed into a three-dimensional globe of the heavens or the earth; usually issued in single sheets, they were also collected in albums. (Text Credit: Newberry Library)
A reproduction historical globe hanging from a wire
A doorway with a design and the words ROGER J. TRIENENS GALLERIES. POP-UP BOOKS THROUGH THE AGES