Geotripper

  I used to talk to my students about the geological hazards that we face as inhabitants of California's Great Valley (or Central Valley...

California's Great Valley is many things: one of the most important agricultural regions in the world, America's Serengeti Plains wh...

Once a week, my errands take me past the intersection of Keyes and Hickman Road on the floor of California's Central Valley. There is ...

There's a difference between apologetics and polemics. The latter is an attack, but the former is a defense. I was writing a piece at my...

The fog here in the Great Valley is legendary. The so-called Tule Fogs can last for weeks, hiding the land in an impenetrable mist. People...

Now that I've got your attention, let's get to the post (explanation below) In the great Central Valley of California there a...

Red-shouldered Hawk at entrance to the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Every so often, I remember what an extraordinary place I liv...

Credit: Jacquetta Wehking I tell my students on occasion that they live in a place that is relatively free of the most serious geological...