The Secret World of Rocks

01/16/2025

This is cool🧊

Did You Know:

❄️Scientists can analyze ice for data about Earth's climate in the far distant past.

❄️The ratio of Oxygen-18 to Oxygen-16 isotopes found in air bubbles in ice cores indicates the temperature at which the snow fell, before it became glacier ice.

❄️Ice cores can also be analyzed for evidence of volcanic activity, dust storms, wind patterns,
atmospheric data, and carbon dioxide concentrations.

❄️Ice cores are stored at gelogic labs where they are kept frozen for research purposes. Literally an ice library. The nearest one to me is in Lakewood, Colorado, and I visited it in 2009.🧊🌎

12/08/2024

⚒️🪨☀️Geology summer iobs for university students - apply below!

🌲🏢These jobs are some of the best opportunities for Sask geol students - you could build an entire career at SGS, in field & office work environments.

The 2025 summer student job posting is live!

Whether you're looking to get field experience in Saskatchewan's beautiful northern boreal forest, sharpen your core logging skills at our Subsurface Lab, or grow your GIS tool kit in our downtown Regina office, the Saskatchewan Geological Survey is a great place to work!

Deadline for application is January 15th, 2025.

https://govskpsc.taleo.net/careersection/10241/jobdetail.ftl?job=GEOL-2025

09/21/2024

🔬🌎There is so much we don’t know we didn’t know about the Earth.

🦠It’s astounding how huge an impact teeny-tiny bacteria and algae have had since the planet first formed.

🫧We have an atmosphere with Oxygen thanks to algae, since ~2.3 Billion years ago.

🌿🧬All life on Earth began with bacteria ~2.4 Billion years ago.

👥Now it’s been observed that algae & bacteria team up to absorb Nitrogen.
🌾This could transform the way plants/crops obtain fertilizer necessary for their growth.

👨‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬The intrinsic workings of the Earth are more complex than we could ever imagine & scientists are continually gaining deeper understanding of these organisms.



https://www.facebook.com/share/p/WFq2HUmDw5gNT2Vu/?mibextid=WC7FNe

08/12/2024

🪨💧Water (tentatively) discovered on Mars! Amazing!

But.

The water is contained in fractures of VERY deep mid-crust rocks, at 11-20km deep.

To compare, that’s 8-17km deeper than the deepest well ever drilled in Saskatchewan (DEEP Earth geothermal well near Estevan is ~3.5km deep).

The discovery was made using archived seismic imaging data.

🔎🪨Rocks are everywhere. Rocks tell stories.🪨📚

05/30/2024

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05/09/2023

Mark your calendars! May 11-14th!
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We are so excited to be coming to Regina for the Regina Rock N' Gem Show

05/09/2023

What a treat today was!

I had a wonderful opportunity to talk rocks, fossils, dinosaurs, and volcanoes with many bright curious kids.

I was asked some very insightful questions like “Do different types of lava make different types of rocks?”, “How do you identify a meteorite rock?”, and “How do rocks tell stories if rocks can’t talk?” 😂

04/08/2023

Always love accidental-fossil-find stories⚒️👷🏻‍♀️👏🏻

Mildred Lake shovel operator discovers fossil remains of Alberta’s oldest Cretaceous plesiosaur on March 12. These marine reptiles lived approximately 115-million years ago.

02/07/2023

Saskatchewan is a rare gem of a landmass.

Almost every known energy resource exist within our borders, either at surface or deep beneath our feet, and we are blessed with curious minds exploring new ways of utilizing those resources.

✅Coal
✅Oil
✅Natural Gas
✅Uranium
✅Wind
✅Solar
✅Hydro
✅Biomass

…and potentially Geothermal too🔥🌎



https://pipelineonline.ca/we-are-a-go-deeps-geothermal-power-project-is-going-ahead-this-year/?fbclid=IwAR11j8KlTsknobIMzVWGPtj7ZhJvp_q1XyDK9ZJskieNmLyoCDZy7tEAuL0 #/?playlistId=0&videoId=0

09/17/2022

🪨👑Rock art by the Slare family in North Devon, UK. I read that this crown art was created in May for the Queen’s Jubilee.✨

07/10/2022

How's your outlook today? This was yesterday, on Mars.
https://go.nasa.gov/3Pk1aDM
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover