Field notes.
Shorter pieces connecting the rocks, mountains, and processes already covered — fossils, volcanic islands, tsunamis, caves, geysers, glaciers, deserts, and real historic events.
How Fossils Form
Fossils have come up already on this site — shale and limestone both mention preserving them — but never got t
How Tsunamis Form
Tsunamis come up three separate times in Notable Historic Earthquakes (Valdivia, Sumatra, Tōhoku) without ever
Notable Volcanic Eruptions
**Mount Vesuvius, 79 AD, Italy.** A stratovolcano eruption that buried the Roman city of Pompeii in ash and vo
How Volcanic Islands Form
The Volcanism page explains hotspots and why Hawaii forms as a chain — but not how a volcano actually becomes
Caves & Karst
Limestone's own page already mentions karst landscapes in passing, and it's a full glossary term — but the act
Geysers & Hot Springs
Yellowstone already shows up twice on this site — as the source of real-world obsidian and rhyolite — but pure
Glaciers & Ice Ages
Glacial erosion is already covered as a short addendum near the Rock Cycle — but that only explains what a gla
Deserts & Sand Dunes
The Igneous section's Coconino Sandstone entry mentions "ancient desert sand dunes" as its origin story, but n
Major Geological Landmarks Around the World
A collection of real, famous landmarks, each explained through processes already covered elsewhere on the site
Yooperlites & Fluorescent Rockhounding
**A quick, important correction first:** Yooperlites are specifically a Lake Superior find, not Lake Erie — wo
Notable Historic Earthquakes
Real examples to pair with the live earthquake data layer — the map shows what's happening right now; this pag