Got a couple dozen monarch butterflies migrating thru and chowing down on my Mexican sunflowers this morning.
Fun fact, we’re in peak monarch season as they travel south, so be on the lookout!
Anyone else questioning their sanity when it comes to this year’s finished shirts?
Unisex medium after a single wash and hang dry looks like I grew several impossible new chest and arm muscles, this thing be TIGHT.
Making sure everyone is aware, but we have a 96% total lunar eclipse tonight. Earth’s shadow will start creeping on the moon around 9:15 pm closest to totality around 12:12 am.
Enjoy the “Blood Moon!”
ggrrrrrrr. Rowr. HISSSSSSSSSS. *Swipe*
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There is a little bit of variation on Joccassee's max depth. Some sources say the depth is as low 326 ft, and some say as deep as 385 ft, but SC DNR has it listed at 351 ft, which is what I went with.
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Apparently Frank Salon’s laundry machine’s effluent line leaked in the middle of a show last night. Theater is temporarily closed as Coffee Underground repairs and cleans up the damage.
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Howdy ya'll. Ever wonder where the soils in the upstate came from? Well, most of it is what you call "Piedmont residual soils."
Think of Piedmont residual soils as a “long game” in geology. They started off as solid bedrock (granite, gneiss, schist, etc.) and instead of being moved here by glaciers or dumped by a river ("deposited," the scientists call it), they’ve just been sitting in place for tens of thousands to millions of years, quietly crumbling and chemically breaking down thanks to rainwater, oxygen, and climate.
The result? A soil profile that’s literally the local bedrock in disguise.
Up top, you’ve got what you’d recognize as soil (clays, silts, sands, and every mix between) formed entirely from the weathering of rock right beneath it. Go deeper, and the material starts looking less like “dirt” and more like an identity crisis: this is referred to as saprolite (a.k.a. “partially weathered rock,” “rotten rock,” or “that stuff that makes you regret hand-dug fence posts”). It still retains the structure and layering of the original rock, but it’s soft enough to dig if you’ve got patience... or better yet, mechanical help.
Keep going, and eventually the rock gets its confidence back: you’ve hit unweathered “parent” bedrock, where no post-hole digger or shovel stands much of a chance without serious persuasion ("persuasion" being another term for "rock hammers" or "focused explosions").
Oh, and mica is often sprinkled through both the soil and saprolite layers here in the Piedmont. Those shiny goldish or silvery flecks don’t mean you’re rich; they just mean the rock had some mica, and now your hands and clothes will, too (be aware that if you own makeup, they charge a premium for that stuff, you might be able to find some in the backyard if you really want).
In short: Piedmont residual soils are in-place weathered rock. Topsoil and subsoil formed from the rock beneath, grading down into saprolite, then true bedrock. Beautiful from a geologic perspective, a pain if all you wanted to do was plant a mailbox post.
I know this subreddit is fairly dead, but figured I would ask. What's everyone's favorite nail salon in Sumter?
Reading a history paper on phosphate mining in the Charleston, stumbled on this wild ad from 1870, trying to make a connection between the bone phosphates being mined to an ancient race of giant baboons (more likely is was formed from the remains of marine life, they found lots of bones and teeth).
Paper is “SC Land Phosphates in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Toward an Archaeological Context” by Michael Trinkley.
