Geo Journal week 12

This area is just off the coast of Washington where I am currently living. This is really cool because I never really considered the geography of the ocean since that isnt something we can really see or interact with unless with the aid of satellite imaging. In this image I was able to capture a couple of cool structures on the ocean floor, one in particular that I think is really cool is the Nitnat fan. I am really glad we got to go over this because I would have never considered this to be something to ever cross my mind!

Geo Journal Week 11 Plate Tectonics

This Wednesday morning in Utah there was a 5.7 earthquake that damaged property and power lines causing blackouts for hundreds of people. This literally hit close to home since my family lives in Heber and my wife and I recently just moved from there to be up here in Washington. This event is greatly affected by plate tectonics due to the wasatch front colliding with other land causing the earthquake to take place in Utah today.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/us/utah-earthquake/index.html

Week 10 Geo-Journal

Here is the location where I live. I zoomed it out just a tad in order to be able to see the area and the different boundaries and what not. To be specific, I live in South Hill which is inbetween Seattle and MT. Rainier. There appears to be very little activity in terms of earthquakes for some time in this location. 

Week 9 Geo Journal

 

So here is this really cool water fall that is like 20 minutes from where I live. The rocks at this water fall differ from large rocks to smaller pebbles. The reason is that this isnt to far from MT Rainier so the material coming down the waterfall hasnt been eroded enough to be smaller. For refference of this water fall the rock in the bottom middle of the photo is twice my size. This waterfall was super loud and very cold. 

Geo Journal Week 8

        My wife and I like to go visit areas were we can go and experience fun exciting areas that have fun geological significance like mountains and Geysers.  A place nearby her hometown we found a path that led Spring of water out and away from a cave her and her friends would go to to hang out. In this cave were cool formations and erratic and had cool Stalagmites and stalagmites that were all over the cave. Done the path of the cave was this really cool hot spring that people would meet up and hang out. My wife and her friends would often look around for petrified wood and other cool materials to keep as keepsakes and we would do the same whenever we would visit.

Week 7 Geo Journal

https://crosscut.com/2020/02/landslides-close-roads-washingtons-remote-towns-deal-isolation

This article happened here in Washington where I live. It is actually in the same county I live and go to work in. The past month had experienced the worst downpour that the state of Washington had ever seen. This has led to many issues and natural accidents involving rain water and injuries. Many areas near MT rainier has experienced land and mud slides due to the large amount of rain in the past month.

Geo journal week 6 Age of Earth vs The Bible

"Science teaches us that the Earth is 4.54 billion years old. Write a journal entry that explains how you reconcile the apparent conflict between this and the creation of the Earth according to the Bible."

My personal theory 1: God's time is different than our time and His days are hundreds of millions of human years. We know that time varies when it travels at faster speeds. Perhaps this is what caused the difference in time?

Theory #2 and my strongest argument- That God took matter that was already existing and organized it into the world that we know as earth. There is evidence to suggest that parts of the earth are not consistent with the layout or life on earth. 

Needless tho say there is nothing to really suggest that any of these theories are correct. I am sure that the more we understand the earth and look into its composition that the mysteries of the universe will unveil itself to those that seek. 

Geo Journal week 5

Here is a picture of my (future) marble counter top. This is one of my favorite type of material for counter top because it is very beautiful and very tough and durable. Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.

Geo Journal Week 4

  Here is a set of sedimentary rocks down in Zion's National Park in southern Utah. I really think its neat how they form like a checkerboard and are very visible. My wife and I were able to go down during the early spring of 2018 and had a great time hiking.

Geo Journal Week 3

Here is the link to the YouTube of a volcano erupting a week or so ago in the Philippines.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M2_g4bEDh8

Taal volcano is the second most active volcano in the Philippines and is currently being watched for more activity and intensity. The eruptions began around the 13 of January.

Geo Journal week 2

 This week we are talking about minerals and I am very excited. The mineral that I had found a few years ago was a piece of pyrite. I remember I was really excited at first  thinking that I could sell it for money but turns out that these are very common. The piece I found was really cool since it was a large cube and had a smaller cube trying to leave the structure which I thought was super cool. Pyrite is classified as a sulfide. I ended up giving it to my father because he collects little nick nacks on his desk  and I thought it would make for a cool paper weight. The picture is exactly identical to the piece I gave my father. I will update the blog when he sends me a better photo of the pyrite. 

Geo-Journal Week 1

Hello Everyone! My name is Gabe Pulsipher and I am a senior and Business major at BYUI. I am from Georgia but currently reside in Washington with my wife of almost 3 years. What I am hoping to get from this class is hopefully a wider perspective on the worlds composition of materials and understanding what forms the world we live in. I feel that this knowledge would potentially benefit future endeavors as well as provide additional insight to my personal arsenal of knowledge. 

I see geology in my everyday life in the sense that I walk outside and see the earth. I live in an area in Washington that mountains are a frequent sight and I occasionally visit my in-laws who live in the same stake as the active volcano "Mount Saint Helens". The running joke in their ward is that the missionary work is so great that even the volcano is active. I am ok with having a less active volcano in my ward, personally. My in-laws residence is a significantly far distance from the volcano but due to the layout of the property we are able to see St. Helens in the horizon. I will occasionally look around and see many igneous rocks and be surprised to the great distance it must have traveled. There was a time when my wife and I first got married we lived with my parents in Heber City Utah and did our fair share of rock hunting. We found an "egg" or a filled geode which was kinda cool. 

Here is what St. Helens looked like prior to its eruption.                    This is after.