https://www.cntraveler.com/story/appalachian-mountains-may-have-once-been-as-tall-as-the-himalayas

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  • uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I have started daydreaming of a career change to geology. There are just so many unanswered questions and its not like space or physics were these questions are tinyor super far away. You can just walk upto a geologic puzzle and hit it with a hammer.

      • calculusqu33n@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Not sure if my username gave it away or not, but I’m really into applied mathematics. I’m a physics major right now, & while I don’t immediately see myself studying this in grad school, I think that the physics of Volcanism/Plate Tectonics is extremely fascinating. It certainly looks at the history of the world through a very different lens, but I wouldn’t write it off completely!! The physics of our Earth is a beautiful, beautiful thing. :)

        • uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          Yeah! Geomag, tomography, and dating are all really important tools, and magma dynamics is a whole encyclopedia waiting to be written. So cool!

        • fossilesque@mander.xyz
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          1 year ago

          Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

          Terry Pratchett

          https://www.motionmountain.net/motionmountain-volume5.pdf