Geotripper

There is a grand and momentary sight to be had if you are driving south on Interstate 5 about seven or eight miles north of Medford, Oreg...

Yup, perspective is everything. I've been going on for several posts about prehistoric volcanic eruptions that were pretty much unimag...

It never fails. I secretly control the incidences of drought and flooding in the western United States. How? By scheduling our summer fiel...

It's the time of year I love the most, our field season, when my students and I hit the road. We are making a grand loop, heading n...

There was a time when the our national parks seemed like unchangeable icons and symbols. They were protected from development, they were res...

Continuing one geologist's travels in 2009... Three weeks were spent on the Hawaiian Islands, an absolutely glorious journey with enou...

In honor of my friends and colleagues who are gathered together in Portland for GSA this week, I'm sending out a new Airliner Chronicle...

Long complex ramble today with four seemingly unrelated random thoughts. But they are... Devilstower , over at Dailykos.com, has a great po...

My previous post concerned three volcanoes visible in a single shot, taken by my wife on our recent field studies journey to the southern ...