WEATHER is a geomorphic agent!! NOAA Satellite image of the bomb cyclone hitting the west coast 11/20/2024 #geomorphologyrules

Faults -- places in the crust where brittle deformation occurs as 2 blocks of rocks move relative to one another. Normal faults form when the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall.

Credit: SLCC via OpenGeology

Homer mayor declares local emergency for damaging surf, wind along Homer spit The extent of the damage to the Homer Spit is revealing itself after this weekend’s strong wind caused big waves and erosion, resulting in periodic closures of homer spit road.

Homer, Alaska mayor declares local emergency for damaging surf, wind along Homer spit

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Fault scarp in Italy’s Apennine Mountains, surface-rupturing & normal faulting, formed during the complex 2016 Amatrice-Norcia earthquake sequence.
Photo: Maxine Gordano

Major John Wesley Powell talking to a Paiute Indian, northern Arizona Survey, Arizona. circa 1869.