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Platectonic love for the profession

You fixed it! 😁

Was there a settlement between them.

How Demonstrative

They actually kinda did that here.

Our Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy had brick patterns designed to look like a grain structure

Whose fault was that?

So glad someone else made a joke about normal faults on this lol

MIT has a building with angles sort of like that, too. I've heard it described as "continuously looks like it's falling down."

And for the delightful charming last straw, they were shocked that grad students wanted their offices to have doors, rather than simply T-shaped walls that prevented visibility from the corridor. "Why would you want a door you could close in a building open to the public during business hours??"

Makes me laugh every time I see it. (Taught my first class in this building!)

Oh schist

But is that just the façade or does the fault continue throughout the building

Back at IU Indianapolis, the Earth Science department asked permission to put a geological timescale mural on the stairway leading down to their labs and classrooms and were told no 😢

I'm sure that design took hundreds of millions of years to develop

That design crosses a line.

The second and third floor need to have different heights.

Our building has some actual cracks (to non-structural elements) from a real earthquake?

The architect gave them the slip.

That was my first thought too.

Ah, version 2.0. 😉

I think that’s just the actual university of Iowa engineering building. At least in the 90s, I don’t know if they fixed it.

'Tis slated to be....to be horsted by their own plutons...

Shear genius.

Some people are so igneous.

And here I thought a wandering knight errant had thought the building challenged them to a duel and cut them down thusly.

Missed opportunity to make the window curves look like Ammonite fossils. And each floor should look like sedimentary layers. The entrance could resemble a geode.

Such scandalous cleavage!

Normal dip slip

Not sure if this is life imitating art or the converse but I give you the Geology building of Federation University, designed to represent rock deformations in several planes. architectureau.com/articles/sci...

This needs to exist.

did sepiroth design this

I see Randall fixed the “reign” into “rein”

It's their own Fault

Memorial Stadium at UC Berkeley! Over decades, slow creep on the Hayward Fault opened a several-inch gap in the stadium wall

Architecture vs Geology. Form follows function?

@earational.bsky.social this would be so cute 😭

I take it the two bodies had a schism?

We’ll see who’s laughing when the Big One hits and this building is the only one that comes out looking normal.

They should've gone with a subduction zone instead

You laugh, but… @caltech.edu — www.johnmartin.com/project/calt...

a good example of a “your fault”

The fault lies entirely with the administration

That was their fault.

Reminded of the "Squaw Peak Pots" posted atop some sound abatement walls along SR-51 (now the Piestewa Peak Freeway) in Phoenix, some of which the artist decided to slice into portions and stagger the pieces. Eventually removed because almost everyone thought they were weird, ugly, and dumb.

HOLY SHIT THAT'S AMAZING!!

I'm synclined to think the geo-boffins are at fault here. Too much on their plates already, perhaps.

Anime club meets here so they can pose like a master samurai who just sliced the building in half

Fun fact - The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake severely damaged the Geoloy Corner of the main Stanford Quad; among other effects, files became irretrievably wedged in a crack that opened and subsequently closed during the shaking.

Title text: "The administration thinks it's weird, but the geologists say it looks normal." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3284#Transcript