Showing posts with label Ancestral Sierra Nevada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ancestral Sierra Nevada. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: The "Dr. Who" of Mountain Ranges

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The Whitney Crest of the High Sierra. Mt. Whitney is just out of sight to the right. I was torn over the title for this addition to the ...
Monday, May 11, 2015

An Invasion of Ents? No, Just the Biggest Living Things on the Planet

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Giant Ent toes. Or Imperial Walkers. Run for your lives! There are things in Yosemite National Park other than Yosemite Valley. One of t...
Thursday, March 3, 2011

The Other California: Why worry about Yellowstone? We've got our own "Supervolcanoes" to worry about

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First off, let's get something straight. As far as geologists are concerned, there are no "supervolcanoes". There are stratovo...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The Other California: What do you do with a used forest?

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Humans have cast a long shadow over Sierra National Forest (oh, sorry about literal metaphors). The Sierra Nevada is a world-class mountain...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Hosing Down the Mother Lode: Hydraulic Mining

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Continuing our journey through the Sierra Nevada Mother Lode on our field studies trip last weekend, we arrived at Chili Gulch south of the...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Touring the Underside of the Volcanoes, Part 2

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Yosemite Valley and Yosemite National Park contain incredible exposures of the magma chambers that once fed eruptions of volcanoes that topp...
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