#FootpathFriday
I discovered this old, seaside walkway nestled in a small waterfront pocket park in Esquimalt, 20 years ago. The end of the walkway & rocky beach area has views of CFB Naden, which is beside the park. There's a fence/gate to block access to this concrete footpath now - I climbed around it. I've done many past photoshoots at this location with various models.

Very cool study documenting global #sealevel fluctuations over the past ~550 million years based on #ice sheet #models, #astronomical forcing and #geological evidence
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X25003243

We talk a lot about #sea level rise due to #warming and ice melt. That it's not just based on models. We have a robust #geological record of ice melt events to talk about this with relative confidence*.

* Science speak for "we're fairly sure"

Link: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aaa4019

Some of the beach rocks I've recently collected to add to our gardens. Soaking out the saltwater in a bucket.

How did eastern #NorthAmerica form?
North America today is made of several different parts. The west are relatively young and mighty mountain ranges like Sierra Nevada and Rockies. In the middle is ancient heart of the continent, oldest and stablest rocks around. And in the east is the long coastal stretch of the eastern North American margin. Each of these has its own #geological history, but it is the story of the eastern bit that has recently come into sharper focus.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/how-did-eastern-north-america-form/