{"id":4929,"date":"2011-10-18T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2011-10-18T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T20:03:11","slug":"licking-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/10\/18\/licking-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Licking rocks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4930\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4930\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/10\/img_2974.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4930\" title=\"Arch at Panther Beach\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/10\/img_2974.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/10\/img_2974.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/10\/img_2974-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/10\/img_2974-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arch at Panther Beach made of sandstone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the MS 141 Geologic Oceanography field trip on monday October the 10th, I learned something new about a place I have been visiting for years. \u00a0Panther Beach is about 10 miles north of Santa Cruz and a diverse, dynamic beach to visit. \u00a0With a huge sandstone arch and places to boulder and rock climb it has much to offer and changes with the seasons as the sand is removed during winter and deposited back during summer. \u00a0Little did I know, but a rock outcrop I had walked by for years was composed of mud and many, many diatoms, tiny algae <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diatom\">phytoplankton<\/a>\u00a0which are made of silica and leave behind their\u00a0skeleton\u00a0when they pass away. \u00a0If you were to lick a fresh portion of this rock it seems like the rock is sticky, this is because of the many tubes of the diatom skeletons creating suction on your tongue!!! \u00a0The study of rocks\u00a0definitely\u00a0rocks!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4931\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/10\/img_2975.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4931\" title=\"Mudstone\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/10\/img_2975.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/10\/img_2975.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/10\/img_2975-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/10\/img_2975-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mudstone made of diatoms and of course mud.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the MS 141 Geologic Oceanography field trip on monday October the 10th, I learned something new about a place I have been visiting for years. \u00a0Panther Beach is about 10 miles north of Santa Cruz and a diverse, dynamic beach to visit. \u00a0With a huge sandstone arch and places to boulder and rock climb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-geological-oceanography-lab"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}