Category Archives: geopuzzling

Geopuzzle #11

Spot (and explain, if you can) the differences. It’s not much of a hint to say that the last one is quite difficult – but the last one is quite difficult. Update: Click through for the answer.

Categories: geopuzzling

What’s up with those Archean sandstones?

In addition to searching out evidence for Archean microbial mats, my revisitation of the Pongola sandstones gave me the chance to look a bit more closely at their lithology. When I last posted pictures from this sequence, there was a … Continue reading

Categories: Archean, fieldwork, geology, geopuzzling, past worlds

Peperite: a basaltic sneeze into wet sediments

The outcrop that I gave you to ponder on Friday is pretty strange, but I can assure you that this isn’t a wall: Most of you correctly guessed that the dark fragments are composed of a mafic (basalt-esque) igneous rock, … Continue reading

Categories: geology, geopuzzling, volcanoes

Geopuzzle #10

What’s all this, then? Update: Click through for the answer.

Categories: geopuzzling

Uniformitarianism in action (sort of)

Most of you correctly identified the sedimentary structures in Friday’s mystery photo: two sets of ripple marks can be seen on the left, and a lower bed on the right has what look like dessication/mud cracks, formed by the drying … Continue reading

Categories: deep time, geopuzzling, outcrops