Showing posts with label Glen Canyon dam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glen Canyon dam. Show all posts
Friday, February 10, 2017

Liveblogging the Deluge: The Concerns (Panic?) at Oroville Dam, a Story We've Seen Before

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The graphic above ( from the Los Angeles Times, Google Earth, and the California Dept. of Water Resources ) succinctly explains the seriou...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

Too Much Dam Hubris...Lake Powell and the Future of the Colorado River

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The Colorado River is a wonder of nature. Starting from glacial cirques high in the Rocky Mountains, the river flows through one canyon af...
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Friday, June 20, 2014

A Rock Outcrop, a River, and Sand flow into a Point Bar...

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And the bartender said "is this some kind of joke?" But it's not a joke of course, it's a simply stunning example of wh...
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Monday, September 16, 2013

Into the Great Unknown: The Last Day...An Elegy for a Journey, and for a River

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Elegy (from the Greek word for "lament") is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for ...
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Saturday, June 8, 2013

A Dam Big Shame, and Things Lost and Gamed...

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A different "Paradise Lost"... It just doesn't get much better than this, to stand on the brink of a high cliff in the b...
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Friday, June 1, 2012

Accretionary Wedge #36: How does life affect geology? Surviving on the Colorado Plateau

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There was a day this home was abandoned. There was a day that something happened, a decision was made. Were they under attack? Did people ...
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