2011

Was it the clue “ginormous shallow magma chamber” that ultimately was the dead giveaway for the successful entrants who figured out Where Will Nina Work? “Geysers” must have...

Perhaps as early as 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period of geologic time, western North America began to experience “pushing” from the west as the denser...

Turbid Conglomerates And The Point Reyes Lighthouse My early–March geology adventure at Point Reyes National Seashore was slowly winding down, ebbing like high tide turning to low. Earlier...

If you happen to be in or near southwest Utah this week, make plans to attend the First Annual SUU Geology Symposium being held on the campus of...

This really must stop. I have been procrastinating entirely too long and now is the perfect first-day-of-spring Sunday morning to get busy – gray overcast skies, blustery winds,...

In the foggy, damp drizzle of my first afternoon at Point Reyes National Seashore, I leave the Bear Valley Visitor Center and the Earthquake Trail to drive out...

Here would be my home base for five nights in Point Reyes National Seashore. It had been a decade at least since I stayed in a hostel –...

Mélange: A body of rock mappable at a scale of 1:24,000 or smaller, characterized by a lack of internal continuity of contacts or strata and by the inclusion...

First Day On The Peninsula–Earthquake Trail I had driven nearly eight hundred miles to stand at this place and am not going to let a little rain stop...

Peeking out from underneath two cozy wool blankets into the diffuse gray light of a chilly dawn on my first morning at Point Reyes hostel, I had a...