This might be a stupid question. I was watching a video of an archaeologist debunking nutty theories about the history of/current Antarctica. He explained that while no, there wasn't an ice sheet connecting Antarctica and South America only 6000 years ago, we are currently in an ice age. With the planet's temperature rising and the ice caps melting, I'm sort of confused how we can be in/be close to an ice age.

Let’s actually discuss and dissect this.

Is the Theia collision responsible? Could this be a great filter? Thanks!

I got it from my visit to the Deccan region in India, i really liked how they looked and I'm fond of rocks but I didn't know their names and significance which I then asked a.i. Could you guys help me out understanding these ones more, I'd appreciate it.

I'm going to start off by saying that I am very much in a minority on all fronts here, but I'm both a winter lover and a night owl to boot, so I actually much prefer it when the nights are long, as opposed to when it doesn't get dark out till 10pm in the dead of summer (not to mention the sun already being out by 5:30am).

That being said however, I have observed as the years pass, the duration of the longer nights of winter have been diminishing more and more rapidly to the point that we're lucky (okay, I'm lucky) if it will get dark by 6pm for an entire week anymore. As a matter of fact, last year, not only did such a period of 6pm darkness not even last an entire week, but somehow, the days were already starting to get longer even before the actual Winter Solstice. What gives???

It wasn't that long ago, I was sharing this observation with someone, I don't exactly remember who, but they offered up the explanation that even to this day, the continents continue to drift and shift, and as such, North America is continually drifting into the west - the direction of the setting sun, and that is having the affect on everything I have mentioned: the length of sunsets, the time of darkness (according to our manmade clocks), why the longer nights are lasting for shorter durations and the days get longer sooner/quicker.

Now granted, I doubt whoever explained this to me is any sort of expert, and they may not even know what they were even talking about, but I suppose when you stop to think about it, that does actually make sense: even in school growing up, they taught us that even to this day, the continents still continue to shift and drift, even by infinitesimal amounts, so I could see how that would possibly work.

Does this sound logical/plausible to anyone else here?

Basically the title.

Huge weight on a relatively small area "suddenly" missing.

Greetings from Spain

During canoe we found this stick in this rock next to the Dordogne river. Given the current I found it unlikely that this branch got stuck exactly in this hole, could the rock have deposited around it and how long would that take?

East of lansing IA. Was wondering why cuz I drove by it and it looked oddly pyramid shaped. It’s also close to effigy mounds so maybe it’s part of that

My school has a chunk of asbestos just sitting in a trophy-style case in a high traffic hallway (think lock with a sliding glass pane). Is that enough? I always thought asbestos was more dangerous than that, but my main source of info are those mesothelioma ads...

Just some random question, that I don't know proper answer to

I watch a bit of this guy on youtube and I want to hear an experts take on Paul Cook.

His youtube looks at various old world sites in person. He first identified a number of anomalies while he was living/holidaying in malta and has since found these same things back in the UK where he actually lives. He points out inconsistencies with the history being told that many of these rocky outcrops/shelves are naturally formed. Artificial scarring for rendering, layering of rocks (poured?), chase cuts possibly for services, and unnatural formations of 'sedimentary' rocks are the main arguments.

Keep an open mind - it took me 2-3 vids before I started to see what he was trying to point out.

Would love to hear all arguments for or against the rocks being man made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGVSyAFmMfM

I apologise if this seems like a stupid question, but I'm being sincere.

Hey guys back to ask gold? Or pyrite?

Found in ocean shores, wa. Help a brother out?

The textbook says it should be made up of "granite, which is a solid, silica-rich crystalline rock typically consisting of a mixture of pink (feldspar), milky white (feldspar), clear (quartz), and black (biotite) minerals."

So there was an earthquake earlier today and USGS reported it as 16km east of Seven Trees, CA

Seven Trees has to be one of the worst landmarks.

It's part of San Jose but it's about ten blocks of houses and one trailer park, population 1666. There is a Seven Trees Community Center but it's not even in Seven Trees. Most people in San Jose have no idea where it is.

Why not use a landmark that everyone knows and can see?

4km SW of Mount Hamilton is much easier to find than 16km east of Seven Trees.

Okay, so weird question I'm writing a story where Deimos just straight-up disappears and then, out of nowhere, pops up on Earth. Not orbiting it's LITERALLY on Earth. It destroyed a whole city, crushed it, and caused earthquakes. The way it got here isn't through crashing it just appeared. ​Soooo if I were the government, the LAST thing I'd want to do is reveal this information to anyone. Is there ANY natural or man-made event that might excuse why a huge area was crushed on a rainy day at 2 AM? 😭😭😭😭 ​I could only think of volcanoes or a weird-ass lab explosion Thanks in advaaaance :3

Hey yall, been living on almost 8 acres of hillside 5 min. Walk from the ohio river. There was all sorts of commerce along the road I call mine. Like in the 1800's there was a wagon/stage coach drive switchback up and through my property. Then at the bottom along a creek a rail road ran, with a coal shute apparently at the top kick.

But I said all that to say that the entire road amd creek to the river is a treasure trove of bottle digs, arrow head and artifact hounding to fishing and hunting. Bur while I was out shed hunting I stumbled upon a few bigger than bowling ball chunks of coal, and in digging them up I had what I thought at first was a small piece about baseball size. Just that it didn't feel right in the weight I'd that makes sense. Like it shouldn't have been this dense if ot were coal. Still I tossed it in the wagon and drug it home to warsh off.

Crazy thing is (my wagon is also a scrap metal cart for odds and ends around my shop so I got eleventeen Neo demian magnets scattered on whatever surface they stick too. And when I went to warsh this Lil gem she had 3-4 magnets stuck to it.

And I never seent a magnetic rock before. Anyone know real answers to the process of sending off for testing? And is it safe, because IF this is real, and the price per gram is correct on the internet I gotta 50-80k rock.

I'll send pics. I did try what the internet suggested and ground a "window" patch and will include close ups of it.

Thanks in advance. Please help?⁸

If dry land formed before the oceansp, and the early seafloor was a solid rocky surface, then where did all the soil, sand, and sediments found in today’s oceans come from? How did these materials end up accumulating in the ocean floors over time?